Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States

Details for Pottawattamie County

Name

Pottawattamie County

Place Type

County

Located in

Iowa, United States

County Seat

Council Bluffs

Coordinates

Latitude		41.3333273		41° 19' 60" N
Longitude		-95.5336149		95° 32' 01" W

Population

82,628

Elevation

373 m

Surrounding Counties

Shelby NE
Cass E
Montgomery SE
Mills S
Sarpy (Nebraska) SW
Douglas (Nebraska) W
Washington (Nebraska) W
Harrison NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

465266

Histopolis Place ID

249207130

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Pottawattamie County

12 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Pottawattamie County, Iowa County Information - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Get all the local information you need on Pottawattamie County, Iowa, IA - community history, demographics, local search and more at ePodunk
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7604 (18 Dec 2009)

Pottawattamie County, Iowa Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Pottawattamie County, Iowa
http://www.interment.net/us/ia/pottawattamie.htm (16 May 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=624 (9 Sep 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Pottawattamie County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Pottawattamie County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Pottawattamie/cem/ (17 Nov 2008)

Pottawattamie County Iowa Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/pottawatamie/cemetery.html (10 Nov 2009)

Iowa Ghost Towns - Pottawattamie County [Iowa Ghost Towns]
http://iowaghosttowns.com/pottawattamiecounty.html (31 Jul 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Pottawattamie County, Iowa [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/PT.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Pottawattamie County, Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottawattamie_County,_Iowa (9 Aug 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Pottawattamie County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=7604&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (29 Nov 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Pottawattamie County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Pottawattamie County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Pottawattamie/ (4 Feb 2010)

Cemetery Index [Pottawattamie County Genealogical Society]
Pottawattamie County Cemetery Index
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iapcgs/CemIndex.htm (26 Aug 2010)

Pottawattamie County Iowa Genealogical Society Frontier Heritage Library
Pottawattamie County Iowa Genealogy Research Resources and Links
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iapcgs/ (26 Aug 2010)

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Surveys in Pottawattamie County

1 Survey, 9 Ranges, 31 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Pottawattamie County. You can navigate to any of the 31 survey townships that overlap Pottawattamie County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Pottawattamie County

29 Townships

Belknap	Boomer	Carson	Center
Crescent	Garner	Grove	Hardin
Hazel Dell	James	Kane	Keg Creek
Knox	Lake	Layton	Lewis
Lincoln	Macedonia	Minden	Neola
Norwalk	Pleasant	Rockford	Silver Creek
Valley	Washington	Waveland	Wright
York

Cities of Pottawattamie County

15 Cities, 25 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Ascot	Avoca (city)	Bentley	Bluff Acres Mobile Home Park
Carson (city)	Carter Lake (city)	Chautauqua	Clara
Council Bluffs (city)	Country Estates Mobile Home Park	Crescent (city)	Dumfries
Gilliatt	Golden Spike Mobile Home Park	Grable	Hancock (city)
Harlan Junction (historical u.p.)	Honey Creek	Iola (historical u.p.)	Kemling (historical u.p.)
Loveland	Macedonia (city)	McClelland (city)	Minden (city)
Neola (city)	Newtown (historical u.p.)	Oakland (city)	Overland Mobile Home Park
Peter	Pigeon	Quick	Regency of Iowa Mobile Home Park
Shelby (city)	Taylor	Treynor (city)	Underwood (city)
Walnut (city)	Weston	Wooded Lake Mobile Home Park	York Center

Cemeteries of Pottawattamie County

58 Cemeteries, 7 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Belknap	Big Grove	Branson	Carson
Castor	Cedar Lawn	Crescent †	Crook
Downsville	Elan	Evangelical	Evans
Fairview	Fisher	Flint	Garner
Graceland	Grange	Graybill	Green Valley
Griswold	Hardin Township	Hazel Dell	Keg Creek Township
Lewis	Lewis	Lewis Township	Lincoln Township
Macedonia	McIntosh	Memorial Park	Mercer
Minden	Neola	Newton	Oak Hill
Oaklawn	Old Town	Pottawattamie County Home	Reels
Ridgewood	Saint Bridgett	Saint Columbanus Church	Saint Joseph
Saint Patricks Catholic	Saint Paul	Saint Pauls Lutheran	Silver Valley
St. Bridgett (*)	St. Columbanus Church (*)	St. Joseph (*)	St. Patricks Catholic (*)
St. Paul (*)	St. Pauls Lutheran (*)	Treynor Zion Congregational	Walnut
Walnut Catholic	Walnut Hill	Waveland	Weston Saint Columbanus Catholic
Weston St. Columbanus Catholic (*)	Wheeler Grove	Whipple	York Township
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