Skip to content
EntityQ589014· pop 34· linked from 36 articles

Also known as Carbon, Iowa, Carbon, IA

city in Adams County, Iowa, United States

Key facts

Country
United States
State
Iowa
County
Adams
Township
Douglas
Incorporated
July 18, 1903
Total
0.75 sq mi (1.94 km )
Land
0.75 sq mi (1.94 km )
Water
0 sq mi (0.00 km )
Elevation
1,119 ft (341 m)
Density
48.0/sq mi (18.53/km )
Time zone
UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
Summer dst
UTC-5 (CDT)
Fips code
19-10585

via Wikipedia infobox

~8 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Carbon is a city in Douglas Township, Adams County, Iowa, United States. The population was 36 at the 2020 census.

Other places in Iowa have been named Carbon: there was a Carbon Post Office in Davis County, six miles south of Ottumwa, that operated for less than a year in 1881. There was also a Carbon Post Office in Webster County, three miles south-east of Fort Dodge, that operated from 1870 to 1872. A post office on the latter location was known as Gypsum from 1902 to 1905.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carbon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map