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Headline: Des Moines Register, 9/25/2025
Fort Madison's population has decreased 35% since its 1960 peak of 15,247.
Nick El Hajj reports:
Seven of the 10 biggest numeric losers sit along the Mississippi River: Davenport, Dubuque, Muscatine, Keokuk, Burlington, Clinton and Fort Madison. Together they’ve shed nearly 4,000 people since 2020, continuing a slide that dates back decades. “These were once manufacturing and grain-handling communities,” Peters said. “The manufacturing crisis of the 1990s really hit hard, and those communities haven’t been able to transition to a services-based economy.”
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