The “Shrink Smart Small Towns” were initially identified in a 2017 Iowa State publication, based on ISU-compiled Iowa “Small Towns Project” polling data from the early 1990s.

And then we have an ongoing poll at Iowa State called the Iowa Small Town Poll that goes back to the early ‘90s. So we've been tracking 99 small towns in Iowa since the early 1990s. That's how ...

It’s no secret that Iowa's rural towns have seen a population decrease. Since the 1980s, younger people have been leaving for jobs in Des Moines and other larger cities.

For the past four years, he’s decided to run at least a mile in each city on the Iowa road map. He has roughly 130 towns to go. When he visits, he likes to go to museums, diners, or even run in ...

After looking at state road map, photographer captures Iowa's lost towns in 1996 exhibit They could be anywhere any time their Iowa's lost towns. There are towns that because of one reason or ...