Gaza, Iowa

Gaza is an unincorporated community in O'Brien County, Iowa, United States. Gaza is located at 43°01′13″N 95°34′48″W.

Gaza, Iowa
Unincorporated community
Gaza, Iowa
Coordinates: 43°01′13″N 95°34′48″W
CountryUnited States
StateIowa
CountyO'Brien
Elevation
1,496 ft (456 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)712
GNIS feature ID456864[1]

History

Gaza got its start in the year 1888, following construction of the Illinois Central Railroad through that territory. It was named after Gaza, in the Middle East.[2]

Education

South O'Brien Community School District operates schools serving the community.[3] The district was formed on July 1, 1993 by the merger of three school districts: Paullina, Primghar, and Sutherland.[4]

gollark: I would need separate geographically distributed servers. Skynet just runs off one which is about ten metres from me at home.
gollark: Rednet does it the lazy way - rebroadcast everything everywhere and discard seen ones - but that is wasteful.
gollark: The problem is that I don't want a tree sort of topology, since that would mean that if a node went down it would fragment the network horribly, and routing messages through a mesh is *hard*.
gollark: Also also so I can push the work of running backup servers onto someone else.
gollark: Also if people could use skynet servers from people they trust more, for whatever reason.

References
  1. "Gaza". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. Past and Present of O'Brien and Osceola Counties, Iowa, Volume 1. B. F. Bowen. 1914. p. 424.
  3. Mahoney, Mark (2019-08-02). "South O'Brien superintendent to retire". Nwestiowa.com. Iowa Information Publishers and Printers. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  4. "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.



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