West Branch
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city in Iowa, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Iowa
- Counties
- Cedar , Johnson
- Incorporated
- April 12, 1875
- Mayor
- Roger Laughlin
- Total
- 2.57 sq mi (6.66 km )
- Land
- 2.57 sq mi (6.66 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 742 ft (226 m)
- Density
- 975.9/sq mi (376.79/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 19-83595
- Website
- www .westbranchiowa .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- West Branch
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Cedar County
- Population
- 2509
- Area
- 8.265073
- Elevation
- 219
- Official website
- www.westbranchiowa.org
- Image
- West branch downtown.jpg
- Households
- 910
- Dialing code
- 319
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- Commons category
- West Branch, Iowa
- postal code
- 52358
- category of associated people
- Category:People from West Branch, Iowa
- P8168
- NVR
- water as percent of area
- 0
- P12749
- Walter Zimmermann
- per capita income
- 29842
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
West Branch is a city in Cedar and Johnson counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 2,509 as of the 2020 census. It is the birthplace of the only American president born in Iowa, Herbert Hoover.
The Johnson County portion of West Branch is part of the Iowa City metropolitan area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “West Branch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.