Steamboat Rock, IA

Steamboat Rock is a city in Hardin County, Iowa, United States. The 2020 census counted 264 residents. Steamboat Rock was platted in 1855. Steamboat Rock was named from a large rock on the river bluff which is said to resemble a queue of steamboats from a distance. Steamboat Rock is a major producer of corn and producer of ethanol, which is made from corn. The city was covered on a segment of the 60 Minutes television news program on May 7, 2006, in regard to its production of ethanol. A newcomer can read Steamboat Rock through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Steamboat Rock comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The river valley here is a deep gorge through the sandstone bedrock underlying the moraine. Steamboat Rock is located on the Iowa River.