Courtesy of the City of Carroll
Carroll County, Iowa
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The county seat, laid out along the Chicago and North Western mainline in 1867 and named through the county for Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
Population
10,321
Founded
1867
County
Carroll County
About the town
About Carroll
Carroll is where the rest of the county ends up doing its errands. Buy here and you're close to the hospital, the schools and the shops. You also get a choice most of these towns can't offer you: the public district or the Kuemper Catholic system. Our office is here in town, so you can walk in. Tell us what you want and we'll tell you what's worth your time.
Carroll exists because of the railroad. The Chicago and North Western pushed its Iowa mainline west across the county in the late 1860s. The town was laid out in 1867, and the first depot went up the same year. The name comes indirectly, through the county, from Charles Carroll of Carrollton. He was the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the last of them to die. In April 1868 the county records were moved here from the older settlement at Carrollton. The new railroad town had eleven residents at the time. It was incorporated as Carroll City in 1869 and renamed Carroll in 1875.
Public students attend the Carroll Community School District, which runs Fairview and Adams elementaries, Carroll Middle School and Carroll High School. Carroll is also the seat of the Kuemper Catholic School System, a regional preschool-through-12 system serving the surrounding parishes.
In January 1960 a DC-3 carrying the Minneapolis Lakers lost its electrical system in a snowstorm. It circled the town looking for an airport, then put down in a cornfield north of 18th Street at about half past one in the morning. Nobody was hurt. The franchise, by then in Los Angeles, donated a basketball court at Veterans Memorial Park on the site for the fiftieth anniversary.
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St. Anthony Regional Hospital
A Catholic hospital founded in 1905, now a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital with a connected 79-bed nursing home, and one of the largest employers in the county.
Kuemper Catholic School System
A regional preschool-through-12 Catholic system based here and serving the surrounding parishes, with roughly 1,175 students.
DMACC Carroll
Des Moines Area Community College has run classes in Carroll since 1979, on North Grant Road, including two-year transfer programs.
Pella Corporation
The window and door manufacturer runs a plant on East US Highway 30, in the county's top employment tier.
Swan Lake State Park
A 510-acre park with a lake of roughly 110 acres just southeast of town, and the southern trailhead of the 33-mile Sauk Rail Trail up to Blackhawk Lake.
US 30 and US 71
The two US highways serving Carroll meet on the west side of the city. US 30 follows the route proclaimed as the Lincoln Highway in 1913.
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Insurance in Carroll
Home, auto, farm and business insurance through The Insurance Station, written out of the same Carroll office.
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