Gilmore City, IA

Gilmore City is a city in Humboldt and Pocahontas counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The 2020 census counted 487 residents. Gilmore City was platted in 1884, not long after the railroad had been built through that territory in 1882. Gilmore City was originally known as Blooming Prairie. Gilmore City has an elementary school with grade levels prep-kindergarten through the sixth grade. Gilmore City's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Iowa setting. The local scoop is how Gilmore City's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Gilmore City contains one neighborhood, Stein's Rockin R Mobile Home Park, Iowa, on the Pocahontas side of town. Gilmore City lies along the northeastern margin of Manson crater, an impact structure buried by glacial till and outwash.