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Mount Pleasant, Iowa

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The city of Mount Pleasant is located in Henry County and is the county seat.

Typical abbreviation for Mount Pleasant: Mt. Pleasant (or less commonly used: Mnt. Pleasant)

Mount Pleasant is 220 feet [67.06 m] above sea level.<1>

Time Zone: Mount Pleasant lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named Mount Pleasant can be found in:

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 DelawareOntario
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 GeorgiaPennsylvania
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 MarylandTexas (historic<2>)
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 New BrunswickWest Virginia
 New JerseyWisconsin

At the time of the 2000 Census, Mount Pleasant had a population of 8,751 people<3> (or 43.13% of the total population of Henry County). The population of Mount Pleasant represented 0.3% of the total of Iowa, making it the state's 39th most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Mount Pleasant had a population of 8,775 people. This is an increase of 0.27% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Mount Pleasant.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000
Year-to-Year Change
20088,775+0.27%-0.23% since 2007
20078,795+0.5%+0.72% since 2006
20068,732-0.22%-0.3% since 2005
20058,758  
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20008,751The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<4>2008
Population
Change
Since 2000
 Crawfordsville   N17 mi [27.36 km]3012.03% increase
 Danville   SE14 mi [22.53 km]8546.56% decrease
 Middletown   SE17 mi [27.36 km]5400.93% increase
 Morning Sun   NE17 mi [27.36 km]8433.33% decrease
 New London   E8 mi [12.87 km]1,8414.96% decrease
 Salem   SW8 mi [12.87 km]4493.23% decrease

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Mount Pleasant.




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People have found Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Mount Pleasant. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

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If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Mount Pleasant? Please visit the Map Page for Mount Pleasant.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Mount Pleasant - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Mount Pleasant, please let us know so that we can make corrections.

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<3>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Mount Pleasant.

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<4>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Mount Pleasant and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<5>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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