| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 349 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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A Bur Oak guide
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Bur Oak guide.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-349) and index. |
| Summary |
Savage 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. If a town's name has changed over the years, he provides information about each name; if a name's provenance is unclear, he provides possible explanations. He also includes information a. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Names, Geographical -- Iowa.
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Names, Geographical. |
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Iowa. |
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Iowa -- History, Local.
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Local history. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Local history.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Savage, Tom, 1945- Dictionary of Iowa place-names. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2007 9781587295317 1587295318 (DLC) 2006035801 (OCoLC)76140489 |
| ISBN |
9781587297595 (electronic book) |
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1587297590 (electronic book) |
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9781587295317 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1587295318 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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