The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-07-13
HOW iowa CITIES RANK
Oskaloosa. is Crowded from 18th to
18th Place.

Iowa has four more cities than it
ever had before, according to the 1912
biennial report of F. NJ. Abbott, chief
clerk of the state municipal account
ing department. He has completed
the work of grading the cities of
Iowa, according to the 1910 census,
for his 1912 biennial report. Those
towns which will hereafter be rated
by the state as cities are Clear Lake,
Rock Rapids, Clarion and Sigourney.
They have all reached population Of
1000 or more, the population required
of a town to enable it to be classified
as a city.
The new cities will take the follow.
ing rank: Clarion, eighty-first; Sig
Quincy, eighty-sixth; Clear Lake,
ninety-frst, and Rock Rapids, the
ninety-second city of the state.
Cities Change Rank.
Mr. Abbott's report will show some
very remarkable changes for the year
in the rating of cities. Des MOines
leads the list with population of
S6,36S. Dubuque drops from SECOND
to fourth place, while Sioux City
jumps from third place into second.
Davenport, which was fourth last year
succeeds Sioux City in third place.
Cedar Rapids remains as the fifth lar
gest city of the state. Burlington,
which was the sixth city last year,
drops to ninth place, Council Bluffs
jumping into sixth position from sew.
enth place. Waterloo, which was
tenth last year, jumps into seventh
place, made vacant by Council Bluffs.
Clinton is in eighth place. Burling
ton, which was sixth last year crowds
Ottumwa out of ninth place, sending
Ottumwa to tenth place, occupied last
year by Waterloo.
Muscatine retains its place as the
eleventh city and Fort Dodge and
Keokuk swap places. Fort Dodge
taking twelfth position this year.
whereas it had thirteenth place last
year. Keokuk takes thirteenth place
this year. Marshalltown remains I'M
fourteenth place.
oskaloosa Crowded Down.
Mason City took big jump. 1t was
twentieth last year, and this year it
crowds Oskaloosa out of fifteenth
place. Oskaloosa is sent back into
eighteenth place. Boone remains I'M
sixteenth position. Iowa City crowds
Ft. Madison out of seventh position,
FIT Madison going to nineteenth posi-
ton. Centerville, which was the
twenty first position, takes the place
OF Mason City in twentieth place, Ma
son City having jumped to fifteenth
position Creston, which was in the
nineteenth place last year drops into
twenty-first position this year. Gel
vein remains in twenty-second place,
while Charles City has crowded Cedar
Falls out of twentythird position.
Cedar Falls goes back to twenty-siXth
position Atlantic was tWenty-fOurth
last year. This year it drops back to
thirty-fOurth, being succeeded I'M
twenty fourth position by Webster
City, which was twenty eighth last
year. Grinnel jumps from twenty
ninth position last year into twenty
fifth position this year. Shenandoah
comes up from thirty-third position
last year to twenty position
this year.
The Smaller Cities.
The balance of the cities beginning
with twenty eighth position and in
Guiding fftieth position, will this year
take the following order. Fairfield,
Abba, Cherokee. Red Oak, Perry,
Newton, Atlantic, Marion, Washing
ton. Ames, lie Mars, Glenwood, Mount
Pleasant, Clarinda, Charlton, DEBORAH,
Maquoketa, Carroll, Independence,
Baskerville, Eagle Grove, Vinton and
Indianola.