• What is the state bird?
  Goldfinch
  
• What is the state rock?
  Geode
  
• What is the state tree?
  Oak
  
• What is the capitol city?
  Des Moines
  
• Who is the governor?
  Tom Vilsack
  
• What is Iowa's nickname?
  The Hawkeye State
  
• What is the state motto?
  Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.
  
• What is the state song?
  Song of Iowa
  
• When did Iowa first become a state?
  1846
  
• Where was the first capitol city?
  Iowa City
  
• How did the Iowa State Cyclones get their name?
  On September 28, 1895 Iowa State (then called Iowa Agricultural College) beat Northwestern 36-0 in Evanston, Illinois. The next day the Chicago Tribune headline said, "Iowa Cyclone Devastates Northwestern 36-0". The nickname stuck and became official.
  

• Where in the U.S. is the shortest and steepest railroad?
  Fenelon Place Elevator in Dubuque.
  
• Who was the Territorial Governor?
  Robert Lucas
  
• How many people ( estimated ) are there in Iowa?
  In 1994 it was 2,830,000.
  
• Who was the first white settler to live in Iowa?
  Julien Dubuque
  
• What is the percentage of Iowans who live on farms?
  10%
  
• What president has a memorial outside the capitol building?
  Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad.

For more information about Iowa: Iowa Facts

A link for Kids: Iowa & Kids

If you want to learn about soil from a worm: S. K. Worm

April 11, 2000