Saint Donatus, Iowa, 52071

March 2012 cost of living index, 80.9; U.S. average, 100.

How people get to work: drive alone, 4; carpool, 1. (How does one person carpool?)

Races in Zip Code 52071 – white, 9. No others listed.

Ancestry reported – German, 4; Irish, 1.

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Population 140 in 2000 census; 135 by 2010 census.

Fifty-three households, six businesses employ 29 people. Annual payroll, $599,000.

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Galena, Ill., is across the Mississippi River.

Here is a satellite view: https://www.google.com/maps/place/St+Donatus,+IA+52071/@42.3628707,-90.542606,1102m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x87e2d999ce5c6f0f:0xe6bc842329e38b10

Many small fields, cut by streams or gullies.

No families and 0.7% of the population is below the poverty level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Donatus,_Iowa

The town has 18 original stone structures as built in the 1850s.

The then and the now:

“When Flemish missionary/explorer Father Louis Hennepin came through this area around 1680, the ground was littered with bones and skulls from a major battle between Native American nations; he called the area Tetes des Morts or heads of the dead, which is still around as the name of the township in which St. Donatus is located.

“Throughout its history, St. Donatus has remained a small village closely tied to the farm economy. Things aren’t much different today, although its impressive collection of 19th century Luxembourg architecture has earned the entire village a spot on the National Register of Historic Places.”

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