Perry

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Perry

Total population

7,985

Weather78°F · Mostly Cloudy

Coordinates41.84°, -94.09°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Perry is a city in Dallas County, Iowa, United States, along the North Raccoon River. The population was 7,836 at the time of the 2020 Census. It is part of the Des Moines metropolitan area.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Current forecast

Forecast for Perry, IA from NOAA NWS API.

Health (adults)

Age-adjusted prevalence estimates from CDC PLACES (latest release).

Schools

Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).

Notable people from here

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V. T. Hamlin

American cartoonist (1900-1993)

C

Cassie Hager

American basketball player

D

Dan Grimm

former American football offensive linesman (1941-2018)

George Tomer

former American Baseball player (1895-1984)

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Roy Halling

American mycologist

A

Alan Shirley

American politician

George W. Clarke

American politician, Washington state (1906-2006)

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Ralph M. Pearson

American artist and educator (1883-1958)

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Barbara Valent

biochemistry researcher

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Janet Dorman Forbes

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1971

Sam Brinton

American nuclear waste disposal expert

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Frank C. Ashford

artist

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John Boyd Ellis

American photographer and postcard publisher

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Iowa

• Minburn
  6.5 mi away
• Madrid
  14.3 mi away
• Ogden
  14.3 mi away
• Granger
  14.9 mi away
• Panora
  17.2 mi away
• Lake Panorama
  17.9 mi away
• Boone
  18.5 mi away
• Grimes
  18.6 mi away
• Polk City
  19.5 mi away
• Fraser
  20.9 mi away
• De Soto
  21.2 mi away
• Diamondhead Lake
  21.4 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Perry

A retail trade area survey for Perry, Iowa

Conrad C. Stucky · 1962

What's cooking

Iowa) First United Presbyterian Church (Perry · 1963

Catalog of the herd of shorthorns the property of B. C. O'Malley & Son, Bouton, Iowa

B. C. O'Malley & Son · 1935

Turtle on a Fence Post

Clark · 2021

Feasibility study of economics and performance of solar photovoltaics at the former Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Rail Yard Company site in Perry, Iowa

James Salasovich · 2013

Perry Creek Conduit, Sioux City, Iowa

John E. Hite · 1991

Diocese of Iowa

William Stevens Perry · 1883

Flood of May 19, 1990, along Perry Creek in Plymouth and Woodbury counties, Iowa

David A. Eash · 1996

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