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Urbandale, Iowa: Where is, history and other tourist information to visit this place.



Tourist Guide Urbandale

Urbandale can be described as a city located in Dallas and Polk counties within Iowa, US. It’s, in fact, a portion of Des Moines-West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Urbandale makes use of council-manager type of government.  ‘City Council’ goes on to contain mayor; along with 5 council members. All these get elected for a term of 4 years.
As per US Census Bureau, Urbandale’s total area consists of 53.7 sq. Km; out of which 0.10%25 comprises of water.

Urbandale got incorporated in the form of a city on 16th of April, 1917. At that time, Urbandale went on to serve as one of the streetcar suburbs with regards to Des Moines; that too with 4 coal mines.  Moreover, this place also performed the function as ‘end of Urbandale Line’ after plans of building a railroad to Woodward from Des Moines got abandoned due to ‘right-of-way’ issues. The year 1948 witnessed closing down of coal mines; whereas 1951 of streetcar service.

The population of Urbandale as per 2005 census was 35904.



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