Cascade (Iowa)

Dubuque County Jones County

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Cascade is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Dubuque and in Jones County in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Iowa. In 2010, Cascade had 2159 inhabitants.

Geography

Cascade is located on the northern Maquoketa River ( North Fork Maquoketa River), a tributary of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Illinois.

The city is located at 42 ° 17'55 " north latitude and 91 ° 00'54 " west longitude and extending over 2.9 km ². Neighboring towns are Worthington (15,4 km northwest ), Farley (20,3 km to the north ), Epworth (22,6 km north-northwest ), Fillmore ( 9.1 km east-northeast ), Temple Hill ( 10.5 km SSE ) and Monticello ( 17 km southwest ).

The nearest large towns are Dubuque ( 42.6 km northeast of the intersection of the states of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin), the Quad Cities (117 km south-southeast ), Cedar Rapids ( 74.3 km southwest ) and Waterloo (128 miles west).

Traffic

Northwestern bypass Cascade is the freeway developed U.S. Highway 151, which is the shortest route from Dubuque to Cedar Rapids. At the height of the center crosses the Iowa Highway 136

The closest airports are the 37.1 km Located north-east Dubuque Regional Airport and 17.3 km south west Monticello Regional Airport.

Memorable people

• Red Faber (1888-1976), baseball player for the Chicago White Sox, who was born in Cascade
• Jeremie Miller ( born 1975 ), inventor of the XMPP / Jabber technologies, born in Cascade