Dyersville, Iowa

Delaware County Dubuque County

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Dyersville is a small town in Dubuque and Delaware County to the east of the U.S. state of Iowa. In the census in 2010 Dyersville had 4058 inhabitants.

Geography

Dyersville 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 ° 28'53 " north latitude and 91 ° 07'15 " west longitude and extending 11.9 km ². Neighboring towns are New Vienna (8.6 km north), Farley (12 km southeast), Worthington (11,2 km south), Earlville (12,9 km to the west ) and St. Petersburg ( 14.9 km north west ).

The nearest large towns are Dubuque ( 44.7 kilometers east of the intersection of the states of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin), the Quad Cities (151 km south-southeast ), Cedar Rapids ( 91.2 km southwest ) and Waterloo (105 miles west).

Traffic

Southern bypass of Dyersville is the freeway developed U.S. Highway 20, which is the shortest route from Dubuque to Waterloo. At the height of the center crosses the Iowa Highway 136

In the east-west direction, a railroad line of the Canadian National Railway from Chicago on Dubuque leads west through Dyersville.

The closest airports are the 49.7 km Located southeast Dubuque Regional Airport and 36.1 km south west Monticello Regional Airport.

History

In 1846, ten families of Bavaria were the first white settlers in the area. Two years later came a native of England James Dyer, under whose leadership the further colonization preceded, so that the Bavarian families and the settlers in 1949 and founded a city called Dyersville.

In 1888 the Catholic St. Francis Xavier Church was built and funded by donations. In 1956, she was called by Pope Pius XII. for minor basilica raised.

In 1945, Fred Ertl began with the construction of models of agricultural machinery. From the original hobby, a family business, today Ertl Company developed.