Random Iowa

The first in our series of cities located along U.S. Route 30, Grand Mound is a city of almost 700 people (as of 2000) located in Eastern Iowa, near the larger communities of De Witt & Clinton. Several things caught our eye in this city, including a neat city park, older style water tower and a building (previous City Hall perhaps?) from 1880. 9 shots were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, with one added to the updated article on Wikipedia (one other photograph was already present). Here are a couple of my favorites: Links Grand Mound, Iowa pictures on Wikimedia Commons Updated Grand Mound, Iowa article on Wikipedia

I'm happy to introduce our summer series of posts, which will be focused around the Iowa cities located along U.S. Route 30 ! Wikimedia Commons / Fredddie Running parallel to Interstate 80 from Missouri Valley in the West to Clinton in the East, this stretch of roadway was first designated in 1926, replacing the Lincoln Highway . Major communities along the route include Cedar Rapids , Ames & Carroll . Do you have any interesting facts around or memories of U.S. Route 30? Any suggestions on cities we should visit or sights we should photograph? We would love to hear about them via the comments section below or on Twitter ! Links Detailed information on U.S. Route 30 in Iowa

As posted on Twitter , for last weekend's trip we headed to Dallas County, Iowa and here (finally!) is the trip report! Traveling along Highway 141 was not only a quick method of getting to Dallas county, but also provided several interesting cities to photograph. We managed to visit Granger (with it's "Hot" and "Cold" water towers), Woodward (with a really nice sculpture outside the High school and distinctive yellow water tower), Bouton (with it's Sauerkraut days!) and Perry (with an historic hotel & Carnegie Library , unfortunately neither of which we had time to get good shots of!) Granger, Iowa Woodward, Iowa Bouton, Iowa Perry, Iowa 27 shots were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, with eight added to Wikipedia. Links Granger, Iowa pictures on Wikimedia Commons Updated Granger, Iowa article on Wikipedia Woodward, Iowa pictures on Wikimedia Commons Updated Woodward, Iowa article on Wikipedia Bouton, Iowa pictures on Wikimedia Commons Updated ...

As you may have noticed things have been a bit quiet on the site for the past couple of weeks. Well I'm happy to report that we are still dedicated to bringing you photographs of random Iowa places, and now that "real life" is no longer in the way we will be back on the road again! Thanks for your patience and look for new content coming soon!

Our biggest apologies to the city of Brooklyn! Due to a miscalculation we arrived there on Sunday with the sun too low to take any good pictures. We also tried to stop by on Tuesday but ran into a storm. Hopefully the third time will be the charm!

This week we will be heading to Brooklyn, Iowa ! View Larger Map Sharing a name with one of the five boroughs of New York City , this city of around 1,400 people (as of 2000) is known as the Community of Flags , and I'm sure you will be seeing a few flags in our photographs! Aerial View of Brooklyn, New York. Source: Commons / Flickr / Kris Arnold What sights do you think we should look to document in Brooklyn? Have your own interesting shots of this place? Feel free to share them via the comments section below! Links Brooklyn, Iowa website Wikipedia article for Brooklyn, Iowa (as it stands today)

I'm pleased to announce that we've launched a mobile version of the site, thanks to the folks at MoFuse ! Point your mobile/cell/smart phones to m.randomiowa.com to find out where we are headed and our most recent photos while on the go! Or, if you are so inclined, here is the QR code :