Lime Springs, IA

Lime Springs is a city in Howard County, Iowa, United States. The 2020 census counted 473 residents. The Old Town of Lime Springs was platted in 1857. After the railroad was built into the area, the town relocated nearby to its tracks. Sweet Corn Days is the festival of the year in Lime Springs, held on the second Sunday in August. Festivities start Thursday and go thru Sunday. The district was formed from the merger of the Cresco, Lime Springs/Chester, Elma, and Ridgeway school districts, opening on July 1, 1960.

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The short version is that Lime Springs carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Lime Springs: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The town center originally existed a little farther to the north around the Lidtke Mill on the Upper Iowa River, but moved south when the railroad came to town. Lime Springs includes the town center originally existed a little farther to the north around the Lidtke Mill on the Upper Iowa River.