Guthrie Center, IA

Guthrie Center is Guthrie County’s seat, a west-central Iowa city along the South Raccoon River. The town was platted in 1856, and county government still meets at the courthouse on Fifth Street. A grade-sharing arrangement sends some students to AC/GC Junior High in Adair, a detail that gives the local school map a two-town shape. The city also sits near the Raccoon River Valley Trail, so the river is part of both the county map and the present-day recreation map. Guthrie Center is an Iowa county seat with a river running through the name, a courthouse in the middle, and school and trail connections reaching beyond the city limits.