West Central Iowa Trivia

• Donna Reed, from Crawford County, was an academy-award winning actress, a county 4-H queen and won a blue ribbon for biscuits at the Iowa State Fair.
• Nemaha is home to the Farmall Promenade, eight square dancing tractors.
• Ida Grove's Midwest Industries, Inc. developed the hoist, a form of which is used on farms.
• In 1959, Nikita Khruschev visited the Coon Rapids farm of Roswell Garst.
• Elk Horn is the largest Danish settlement in the United States.
• Christian K. Nelson from Monona County invented the Eskimo Pie, originally named the I-Scream bar, by combining a candy bar with an ice cream sandwich.
• The county with the highest acreage of apple orchards is Harrison County.
• The Loess Hills are located in Harrison and Monona Counties and are composed of yellow soil. Only in China can you find loess deposits that are anything similar.
• Sioux City is home to the world's largest popcorn producer (American Popcorn) and the nation's largest honey co-op (Sue Bee Honey).
• In Woodbury County in 1914, Cloid Smith and his son cleaned and packaged the first brand of popcorn in the US – Jolly Time.
• In 1934, Bonnie and Clyde robbed the Knierim bank in Calhoun County of $272.