A dictionary of Iowa place-names

"A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names includes information on the place-names of all 1,188 incorporated and unincorporated communities in Iowa that meet at least two of the following qualifications: twenty-five or more residents; a retail business; an annual celebration or festival; a school, church, or cemetery; a building on the National Register of Historic Places; a zip-coded post office; or an association with a public recreation site. Tom Savage also provides information about the state's name and its 99 counties as well as a list of its many vanished counties and towns."--book jacket.