Lucas County
My son John is doing a report on the great state of Iowa. While doing some research online, I happened across a Wikipedia article on Lucas County, the county in which I spent my first fourteen or so years.
I knew there were not many folks there, but I was surprised to learn exactly how sparse it is, with only five towns and cities and a total of less than 10,000 people in the whole county. By comparison, I now live in Dakota County Minnesota; which has about 400,000 residents and dozens of cities and towns. In fact one of several school districts in Dakota County has almost 30,000 student...3x the population of Lucas County.
Lest you think they left out the smaller towns on the Wikipedia entry, I'd point out that I attended grade school in Williamson (one of the five listed towns). My class was the biggest ever with something like 17 students, and when school was in session, I think the population of Williamson was easily doubled.
I knew there were not many folks there, but I was surprised to learn exactly how sparse it is, with only five towns and cities and a total of less than 10,000 people in the whole county. By comparison, I now live in Dakota County Minnesota; which has about 400,000 residents and dozens of cities and towns. In fact one of several school districts in Dakota County has almost 30,000 student...3x the population of Lucas County.
Lest you think they left out the smaller towns on the Wikipedia entry, I'd point out that I attended grade school in Williamson (one of the five listed towns). My class was the biggest ever with something like 17 students, and when school was in session, I think the population of Williamson was easily doubled.
posted by Mike Hopkins at 3:40 PM
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