{"id":3456,"date":"2023-05-13T19:24:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T19:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:30:22","slug":"page-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/page-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Page County, Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Page County is a county in Iowa, United States, about 90 miles southeast of Omaha, Nebraska. It<br \/>\nhad a population of 15,211 at the 2020 census and covers 535 square miles (1,390 km2) centred<br \/>\nnear 40\u00b044\u2032N 95\u00b009\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Clarinda is the county seat; its postal code is 51632. The county holds 2 cities, 8<br \/>\nincorporated towns and 7 unincorporated communities across 16 townships, and it runs on Central<br \/>\nTime. Its FIPS code is 19145.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Page County<\/h2>\n<p>Page County has 17 named places on record: 10 incorporated cities and towns and 7<br \/>\nunincorporated communities with no local government of their own. CDP stands for census<br \/>\ndesignated place; Unincorp. covers crossroads and rural communities with no formal boundary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Township<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Clarinda<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>5,369<\/td>\n<td>51632<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Shenandoah<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>4,925<\/td>\n<td>51601<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Essex<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>722<\/td>\n<td>51638<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Coin<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>176<\/td>\n<td>51636<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>College Springs<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>172<\/td>\n<td>51637<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Shambaugh<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>159<\/td>\n<td>51651<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Braddyville<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>147<\/td>\n<td>51631<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Yorktown<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>60<\/td>\n<td>51656<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Northboro<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>52<\/td>\n<td>51647<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Blanchard<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>29<\/td>\n<td>51630<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bethesda<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bingham<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hawleyville<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hepburn<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Norwich<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nyman<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Page Center<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Township boundaries in Page County are not tied one-for-one to town names the way they are in<br \/>\nsome Iowa counties, and no public source ties each of these 17 places to a specific civil<br \/>\ntownship, so the Township column is left blank rather than guessed. The 16 townships themselves<br \/>\nare listed below.<\/p>\n<h2>Townships<\/h2>\n<p>Page County is divided into 16 civil townships: Amity, Buchanan, Colfax, Douglas, East River,<br \/>\nFremont, Grant, Harlan, Lincoln, Morton, Nebraska, Nodaway, Pierce, Tarkio, Valley and Washington.<br \/>\nTownship-level population figures are not published in a single public table, so they are omitted<br \/>\nhere rather than estimated.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>51632 &mdash; Clarinda<\/li>\n<li>51601 &mdash; Shenandoah<\/li>\n<li>51603 &mdash; Shenandoah (a unique ZIP assigned to a single large-volume mailer in the city)<\/li>\n<li>51638 &mdash; Essex<\/li>\n<li>51636 &mdash; Coin<\/li>\n<li>51637 &mdash; College Springs (PO Box ZIP)<\/li>\n<li>51651 &mdash; Shambaugh (PO Box ZIP)<\/li>\n<li>51631 &mdash; Braddyville<\/li>\n<li>51656 &mdash; Yorktown (PO Box ZIP)<\/li>\n<li>51647 &mdash; Northboro<\/li>\n<li>51630 &mdash; Blanchard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bethesda, Bingham, Hawleyville, Hepburn, Norwich, Nyman and Page Center have no ZIP code of<br \/>\ntheir own; mail there is delivered under the nearest incorporated town&#8217;s code.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Page County sits in Iowa&#8217;s southwestern Loess Hills region, a landscape of rolling,<br \/>\nwind-deposited hills cut by the East Nishnabotna River, which flows south-southwest through the<br \/>\ncounty past Shenandoah on its way toward the Missouri River. Of the county&#8217;s 535 square miles,<br \/>\nabout 534.5 are land and 0.5 are water, roughly 0.1 percent &mdash; low even by Iowa standards,<br \/>\nsince the county has no large natural lake.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery County lies to the north, Taylor County to the east, Fremont County to the west,<br \/>\nand across the state line in Missouri, Nodaway County to the south and Atchison County to the<br \/>\nsouthwest. <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/montgomery-county-iowa\/\">Montgomery County<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/taylor-county-iowa\/\">Taylor County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/fremont-county-iowa\/\">Fremont County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/nodaway-county\/\">Nodaway County<\/a> and <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/atchison-county-missouri\/\">Atchison County<\/a> all border<br \/>\nPage directly.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Page County had a population of 15,211 at the 2020 census, and county records show a modest<br \/>\ndecline since then, consistent with the broader trend across rural southwestern Iowa. Clarinda<br \/>\nand Shenandoah are by far the two largest communities, together holding more than two-thirds of<br \/>\nthe county&#8217;s population. Median household income runs $57,953, well below Iowa&#8217;s<br \/>\nstatewide figure of $71,433 (2023 ACS). Population density works out to roughly 28 people per<br \/>\nsquare mile of land, low even for rural Iowa.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Manufacturing employs the most workers in the county, about 1,547 people, followed by health<br \/>\ncare and social assistance at 982 and retail trade at 904. NSK-AKS, a bearing manufacturer, and<br \/>\nLisle Corporation, a hand-tool maker founded in 1903, both operate plants in Clarinda. Clarinda<br \/>\nRegional Health Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital, and the Clarinda Correctional Facility<br \/>\nare among the county&#8217;s largest employers outside manufacturing. Shenandoah built its economy<br \/>\non the seed trade &mdash; Earl May Seed Company made the city known nationally as a seed and<br \/>\nnursery center, and the pioneering radio station KMA, launched to sell seed by air, later helped<br \/>\nlaunch the careers of The Everly Brothers. Iowa Western Community College runs campuses in both<br \/>\nClarinda and Shenandoah.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>Page County was established on 24 February 1847 and named for Captain John Page of the 4th<br \/>\nUnited States Infantry, mortally wounded at the Battle of Palo Alto in the Mexican&#8211;American<br \/>\nWar. Clarinda, founded in 1851 and incorporated in 1866, takes its name from Clarinda Buck, who<br \/>\ncarried water to the surveyors laying out the county.<\/p>\n<p>From 1884 the Clarinda Treatment Complex operated as Iowa&#8217;s third state mental hospital,<br \/>\nrunning for more than 130 years before closing in 2015. Clarinda is the birthplace of bandleader<br \/>\nGlenn Miller and of Jessie Field Shambaugh, a founder of the 4-H movement. A courthouse fire on<br \/>\n11 December 1991 forced county court services into temporary quarters for roughly two and a half<br \/>\nyears while it was rebuilt.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>US Highway 71 and Iowa Highway 2 cross the county through Clarinda; US Highway 59 and Iowa<br \/>\nHighway 48 also run through Page County. No interstate highway reaches the county.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Omaha, Nebraska &mdash; about 90 miles northwest<\/li>\n<li>Red Oak, Iowa &mdash; about 20 miles north<\/li>\n<li>Bedford, Iowa &mdash; about 20 miles east<\/li>\n<li>St. Joseph, Missouri &mdash; about 70 miles south<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eppley Airfield in Omaha, roughly 90 miles northwest of Clarinda, is the nearest major<br \/>\ncommercial airport. Amtrak&#8217;s California Zephyr calls at Omaha&#8217;s downtown station, the<br \/>\nnearest Amtrak stop to Page County. Jefferson Lines runs intercity bus service through<br \/>\nShenandoah, connecting to Kansas City and Sioux Falls.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Page County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits in Iowa&#8217;s southwestern Loess Hills region, about 90 miles southeast of Omaha,<br \/>\nbordered by Montgomery, Taylor, Fremont, Nodaway and Atchison counties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Page County?<\/strong><br \/>\n15,211 at the 2020 census.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Page County?<\/strong><br \/>\n535 square miles (1,390 km2), of which about 534.5 square miles are land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Page County?<\/strong><br \/>\nClarinda, founded in 1851 and incorporated in 1866, is the county seat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and cities are in Page County?<\/strong><br \/>\nTen incorporated places &mdash; Clarinda, Shenandoah, Essex, Coin, College Springs, Shambaugh,<br \/>\nBraddyville, Yorktown, Northboro and Blanchard &mdash; plus seven unincorporated communities:<br \/>\nBethesda, Bingham, Hawleyville, Hepburn, Norwich, Nyman and Page Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Page County use?<\/strong><br \/>\n51632 for Clarinda, 51601 and 51603 for Shenandoah, 51638 for Essex, 51636 for Coin, 51637 for<br \/>\nCollege Springs, 51651 for Shambaugh, 51631 for Braddyville, 51656 for Yorktown, 51647 for<br \/>\nNorthboro and 51630 for Blanchard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Page County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nShenandoah&#8217;s seed and radio industry, built around Earl May Seed Company and station KMA,<br \/>\nand Clarinda as the birthplace of bandleader Glenn Miller.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/iowa\/\">Towns and villages in Iowa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Page County is a county in Iowa, United States, about 90 miles southeast of Omaha, Nebraska. It had a population of 15,211 at the 2020 census and covers 535 square miles (1,390 km2) centred near 40\u00b044\u2032N 95\u00b009\u2032W. Clarinda is the county seat; its postal code is 51632. 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