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Woodbury County
Woodbury County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 105,941, making it the sixth-most populous county in Iowa. The county seat is Sioux City, Iowa, Sioux City. Woodbury County is included in the Sioux City metropolitan area. History Originally established in 1851 as Wahkaw County, the Iowa Legislature in 1853 changed the name to Woodbury County in honor of Levi Woodbury (1789–1851), a New Hampshire Senate, senator and governor of New Hampshire who served as a Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court justice from 1844 until his death. The first county seat of Wahkaw County was the now-extinct village of Thompsonville; when the Legislature changed the county name to Woodbury, the new county seat became Sergeant's Bluff (now Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, Sergeant Bluff). The county seat was moved to Sioux City in 1856. The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska (Ho-Chunk) owns reservat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergeant Bluff, Iowa
Sergeant Bluff is a city in Woodbury County, Iowa, Woodbury County, Iowa, United States. It is part of the Sioux City, Iowa, Sioux City, IA–Nebraska, NE–South Dakota, SD Sioux City metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,015 at the time of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. History The city was named in honor of U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Floyd (explorer), Charles Floyd, a native of Kentucky who was one of the first men to enlist in the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the early 1800s. Just three months into the two-year journey, Floyd became violently ill and died the next day, August 20, 1804, of what is believed to have been a ruptured Appendix (anatomy), appendix. He was buried on a hill overlooking an unnamed river on the Iowa side of the Missouri River. In his honor, the expedition's leaders, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, named the river Floyd River and the hill Floyd's Bluff, now part of Sioux City, Iowa, Sioux City. Flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
