Our journey through Iowa’s 99 counties began in January with a visit to Kossuth County in the north, which is not the only location named after Lajos Kossuth, Hungary’s freedom fighter during the ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, skinny ribbons of air that move a lot of moisture in the sky from one location to another ... of water vapor as the mouth of the Mississippi River.

roughly 60 miles southeast of New Orleans and 20 to 30 miles upriver from where the Mississippi flows into the Gulf of Mexico. As in New Orleans, drinking water in the parish is drawn from the river.

Most historical accounts state that Black Hawk’s band crossed the Mississippi River from the mouth of the Iowa River.