Source: Wikipedia (Keokuk County, Sigourney)
Sigourney is the county seat of Keokuk County.
The places in America that already have their best days behind them. (Washington Post, 6/1/2016)
The 1890s were a good decade for Keokuk County, Iowa. The population there, in the southeast corner of the state, neared 25,000 residents by the 1900 census. That number has been declining ever since.
As with much of the Great Plains, Appalachia and the old Cotton Belt, rural Keokuk County has been depopulating for a very long time. While vast stretches of America are still moving toward their peak populations, these places have been emptying out. They peaked — population-wise, at least — in 1920, or 1890, or even earlier.
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