The Lowest Elevation in the state is at Keokuk at 480 feet above sea level. The highest elevation is in Osceola county in the northwest at 1675 feet. In the northeast cliffs rise to 300 to 400 feet vertically from the banks of rivers.

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Iowa's State Flag picture

State Nickname: hawkeye state, corn state

State Motto: our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain

State Tree: oak

State Bird: eastern goldfinch

State Flower: wild rose

State Rock: Geodes

Famous People of Iowa

President Hubert Hoover was the 31st president of the US.

Vice President Henry A. Wallace served under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Carrie Chapman Catt was a Suffragist Leader.

William F. Buffalo Bill Cody was a famous frontier scout and Wild West showman.

Norman Borlaug PHD was a Nobel Peace Price Laureate.

John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry were the inventors of the digital computer.

Grant Wood was the leader of the Regionalist art movement and painter of American Gothic.

Bob Feller was the pitcher for the Cleveland Indians and now Baseball hall of fame member.

Jane Smiley is the author of a Thousand Acres and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist.

Ashton Kutcher is a film and television actor.

Elijah wood is the actor who starred in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Donna Reed is an academy award winning actress.

Glen Miller was the Big band leader and a popular musician during the Swing Era of dancing.

Simon Estes is a famous opera singer

Meredith Wilson is the composer of the Broadway musical The Music Man.