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Cresco

city in Iowa, US
Place City In The United States Q1914623

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
city in the United States, county seat[4]
Official website
www.cityofcresco.com[8]
Official name
Cresco[12]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 43.374°, -92.115°[7]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Howard County[2]

Population and size

Area
8.671344, 8.671342
Elevation above sea level
394.0
Population
3,868, 3,888[9][10]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 3,868 · 3,888 GeoNames 3,833 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
563[6]
Postal code
52136[5]
More facts +8
Website
www.cityofcresco.com
Located in
Howard County
Capital of
Howard County[11]
Coordinates
🗺️ 43.374°, -92.115°
Date of incorporation
June 6, 1868
Number of households
1617.0[13]
Per capita income
27456.0
Water as percent of area
0.0
🏷️ Also known as
en Cresco en Cresco, IA en Cresco, Iowa ar كريسكو el Κρέσκο fa کرسکو fr Ellen Church Field he קרסקו ja クレスコ ru Креско ru Крэско zh 克雷斯科
🔖 Identifiers · 18
VIAF cluster ID
129059647
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n84195519
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
HowardCountyCourthouseCrescoIowa.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
18070
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
19-17220
FactGrid item ID
Apis andreniformis
Freebase ID
/m/0s_fk
GNIS Feature ID
455712, 2393669
GeoNames ID
4853059
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
cresco
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0435010
J9U entity ID
987007557781705171
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OpenStreetMap relation ID
128530
RKD thesaurus ID
6955
UN/LOCODE
USCFK
Who's on First ID
85943641
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJxWV9KpCTPpV6JqwYXcfq
Yale LUX ID
place/9247f484-416b-4650-ba13-794da58867a3
📚 Sources · 1
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
People born here 7
Norman Borlaug, Ellen Church, Charles Bowers, Tami Hoag, Edouard Izac, Edward Howard, Edward Aloysius Fitzgerald
← Place of publication 3
Cresco Plain Dealer, Times Plain Dealer, Twice-a-Week Plain Dealer
Instance of 2
county seat, city in the United States
Capital of 1
Howard County
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Cresco, Iowa
Contained subdivisions 1
Times Plain Dealer
Country 1
United States
FactGrid item ID 1
Apis andreniformis
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Howard County
← Capital 1
Howard County
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Cresco, Iowa
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Howard County
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Summary

Cresco is a city in the United States[1].

Related Entities

Norman Borlaug United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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