Iowa Territory was an organized territory of the United States from July 4, 1838 until December 28, 1846 when it became Iowa, the 29th state.

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	Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1560 words) The Farm Crisis of the 1980's saw a major decline of family farms in Iowa and around the Midwest, and was marked by a sharp drop in the state's rural population. Iowa is bordered by Minnesota on the north, Nebraska and South Dakota on the west, Missouri on the south, and Wisconsin and Illinois on the east. Iowa is home of 49 endangered and 35 threatened animal species as well as 64 endangered and 89 threatened plant species [1]. World Almanac for Kids (3390 words) IOWA, one of the West North Central states of the U.S., bounded on the N by Minnesota, on the E by Wisconsin and Illinois, on the S by Missouri, and on the W by Nebraska and South Dakota. Iowa’s most level land is found in the Western Great Lakes Lowland region of the N central part of the state; its flatness was caused by the planing of ice sheets during each of the major glacial periods. The Iowa region successively formed a part of the territories of Louisiana (1805–12), Missouri (1812–21), Michigan (1834–36), and Wisconsin (1836–38); between 1821 and 1834 it was an unorganized area of the U.S. In 1808 the federal government established Fort Madison, but the garrison was withdrawn in 1813 because of hostility by the native Indian tribes.
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