Correctionville, Iowa: Correctionville: Town of Jogs
All the north-south streets in this town have to jog east-west to accommodate the curvature of the earth. This "correction" is celebrated in the town name, and with an appropriately off-kilter midtown monument.
- Address:
- 410 5th St., Correctionville, IA
- Directions:
- Midtown, on the south side of 5th St., where IA-31/Driftwood St. jogs east-west.
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Correctionville gets its name from a surveying term that requires periodic jogs in plot lines to account for the curvature of the earth. All of the north-south streets in town jog east-west at 5th Street. There's a monument explaining all of this and, ironically, a typo in the bronze plaque text that requires correction.
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