Lanyon is an
unincorporated community
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in
Lost Grove Township in
Webster County, Iowa
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.
Geography
It is located 17 miles south of the county seat of
Fort Dodge
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, 2.65 miles south and one mile west of
Harcourt (on
U.S. Route 169
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), and 3.3 miles north and 4.5 miles west of
Boxholm
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Economy
Steel production company Ovako
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. Lanyon consists of seven blocks, bounded on the north by 390th Street, and on the east by Lanyon Avenue.
History
The community was founded by Swedish emigrants, part of a migration from
Knox County, Illinois
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in the 1860s. The population was 105 in 1940.
It is located on the diagonal route of a former interurban railroad between
Boone and
Rockwell City, which was used by the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railroad until the 1960s. A station at Layton was opened in 1899 to serve a railway laid that year by the Marshalltown and Dakota Railroad Company to carry coal mined near
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northwest to connections at
Gowrie
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. A Lanyon
Post Office
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was established in 1900, the Lanyon Mutual Telephone Company was established in 1903, and the Bank of Lanyon, Lanyon Well Company, and (until the early 1960s) Lanyon Consolidated School. Lanyon is now within the
Prairie Valley Community School District.
It includes the Evangelical Covenant Church, founded in 1877 and located in Lanyon since 1909.
Education
Previously it was in the
Prairie Valley Community School District, which formed on July 1, 1993 with the merger of the Cedar Valley Community School District and the Prairie Community School District.
REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66
." Iowa Department of Education
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Organization
As of 2020, the Iowa Department of Education c ...
. Retrieved on February 23, 2019. Prairie Valley CSD merged into the Southeast Valley Community School District
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The district includes sections of the following counties: Webster, Calhoun, Boone, and Greene. Municipalities in the district inc ...
in 2023. This district includes the Southeast Valley Middle School in Burnside and Southeast Valley High School
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Prior to the merger into Southeast Valley district in 2023, the school was operated by the Prairie Valle ...
in Gowrie.
Notable people
* George E. Q. Johnson, United States attorney
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who successfully prosecuted Al Capone
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for tax evasion
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* , author of "A Study of Chinese Alchemy".
* Jon Lindgren, mayor of Fargo, North Dakota
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from 1978 to 1994
References
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Unincorporated communities in Webster County, Iowa
Unincorporated communities in Iowa
Populated places established in the 1860s
Swedish-American history
Swedish-American culture in Iowa
1860s establishments in Iowa