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Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Linn. Associated ZIP codes: 52401, 52402, 52403, 52404, 52405, 52406, 52407, 52408, 52409, 52410, 52411, 52497, 52498, 52499.
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced that Alliant Energy could get a $5.1 billion loan to invest in new natural gas plants, gas pipelines or battery stora...
Janice Marie Kremer, age 76, passed away on Friday, October 23, 2026, at Northbrook Manor Care Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Rob Sand and Zach Lahn will debate Tuesday night for a third and final time ahead of the Nov. 3 election in an event hosted by The Gazette and KCRG-TV.
Iowa's two gubernatorial candidates will meet for one final debate hosted by KCRG and the Cedar Rapids Gazette after they were unable to agree on reschedulin...
An apparent explosion has caused a fire at a Quaker Oats plant in Iowa that the company touts as the largest milling facility in the world.
It will be a Top Five showdown in Class 4A Friday between defending state champion Cedar Rapids Xavier and No. 4 Waverly-Shell Rock.
Two Cedar Rapids teens charged in the April 2026 shooting on the Pedestrian Mall in Iowa City will have a joint trial Jan. 26, 2027. Both will claim self-def...
CEDAR RAPIDS — Family farmers and young parents endorsed U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson's U.S. Senate bid Thursday, saying Republican-backed tax cuts, expanded ch...
CEDAR RAPIDS — Family farmers and young parents endorsed U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson
Larry E Engen Sr., 88, of Cedar Rapids, passed away peacefully into the arms of God, accompanied by his Guardian Angel on Friday, July 31, 2026. He was surro...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — United Fire Group Inc. (UFCS) on Monday reported net income of $33.4 million in its second quarter.
The Iowa State Patrol said the 81-year-old woman from Cedar Rapids was driving on U.S. Highway 52 when she crossed the center line and struck a Ford F-250 pi...
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Cedar Rapids is in Linn County, Iowa.
Region: Iowa
52401, 52402, 52403, 52404, 52405, 52406, 52407, 52408, 52409, 52410, 52411, 52497, 52498, 52499
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The site of Cedar Rapids lay in the territory of the Meskwaki and Sauk when white settlers arrived. The first settler was Osgood Shepherd, who built a log cabin he called a tavern on the Cedar River, then called the Red Cedar, in 1837 or 1838, at what is now First Avenue and First Street Northeast. He was a squatter with no title and a reputed ne'er-do-well who at least kept company with horse thieves. He drove off another squatter, Wilbert Stone, who had platted a town called Columbus to the south, and sold Stone's cabin. When he tried the same with Robert Ellis on the west bank, Ellis, who was chopping wood, warned that someone would be dead if Shepherd did not back off.
The true founders were George Greene, a surveyor, Nicholas Brown, a miller, and a few others, who saw that Shepherd's spot beside the last rapids before the Cedar joins the Iowa River was ideal for a mill. In 1841 they bought out Shepherd and platted a town called Rapids City. Brown's first crude dam washed out, so Greene brought in Alexander Ely, an engineer from Michigan, to build a proper dam and mill race able to power several mills. A village called Kingston, for David King, who ran a rope ferry, grew up on the west bank. The Iowa legislature incorporated the town as Cedar Rapids on January 15, 1849, named for the rapids of a river named for its red cedars. It had fewer than 400 people. During the 1850s the town grew and gained a substantial Czech population. Sources Wikipedia: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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