Plans For Tomorrow: Celebrate Iowa!

As you’re out and about tomorrow, pause for a moment to look around you and just enjoy Iowa. Because tomorrow is National Iowa Day!

That’s according to the National Day Calendar™, the website that tracks unusual national days and has a day for just about everything.

So why Feb. 8? It’s not Iowa’s birthday. That’s Dec. 28, when Iowa became the nation’s 29th state back in 1846. But the National Day Calendar folks have declared an official day for each U.S. state in the order they joined the union, and Iowa’s date just happens to be tomorrow.

So here are just some of the awesome things about our state:

The city of Strawberry Point is home to the world’s largest strawberry.

“Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” has dubbed Burlington’s Snake Alley as the most crooked street in the world.

West Okoboji is the deepest natural lake in the state, at 136 feet deep. But East Okoboji is the longest natural lake in the state, at 16 miles long.

The community of Crystal Lake boasts a statue that is the world’s largest bullhead fish. 

Iowa is the only state whose east AND west borders are formed entirely by water. (Extra points if you know that it’s the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers on our western border and the Mississippi River on the east.)

And, Cornell College is the only school in the nation that has its entire campus listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

(With this blog entry, we just gave you several items to win that Iowa trivia game you can start with your friends tomorrow! Happy Iowa Day, everyone!) 

Comments

[James Rigsby 109 W 1st Bridgewater]

Nothing to do in SW Iowa except struggle along in the cold and poverty. Iowa lottery is not redistributeing the wealth. Just another tax so the states get more. Legislators need to go back to serving for free . They use to have professions. When the sales tax reaches 10% we can just cut the “mob” into our wallets. Happy Iowa=crap

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So why Feb. 8? It’s not Iowa’s birthday. That’s Dec. 28, when Iowa became the nation’s 29th state back in 1846. But the National Day Calendar folks have declared an official day for each U.S. state in the order they joined the union, and Iowa’s date just happens to be tomorrow.