It caused Causation minor damage Damaging , reports of which were confined to Kansas , Iowa , and Missouri , according to the United States Geological Survey .

The war Military_operation erupted Process_start soon after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks , Meskwakis , and Kickapoos , known as the `` British Band '' , crossed Motion_directional the Mississippi River , into the U.S. state of Illinois , from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832 .

One of the three American hostages on the flight , Fred Hubbell , ran for the position of governor of the state of Iowa in the 2018 election Change_of_leadership .

On February 3 , 1959 , American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly , Ritchie Valens , and `` The Big Bopper '' J. P. Richardson were killed Killing in a plane crash Catastrophe near Clear Lake , Iowa , together with pilot Roger Peterson .

In Iowa , the National Guard was mobilized Influence to protect Defending miners in Givens and Muchakinock who had not joined Cause_to_amalgamate the strike .

The Port Neal fertilizer plant explosion Attack occurred Coming_to_be on December 13 , 1994 in the ammonium nitrate plant at the Terra International , Inc. , Port Neal Complex , 16 miles south of Sioux City , Iowa , United States .

The plant was Iowa 's largest producer of nitrogen-based fertilizers and its loss Earnings_and_losses contributed Supply to a national 50 % increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in the cost Cost of fertilizer by the following year .

The Villisca axe murders occurred between the evening of June 10 , 1912 , and the early morning of June 11 , 1912 , in the town of Villisca in southwestern Iowa .

States affected by the flooding included Cause_to_be_included Illinois , Indiana , Iowa , Michigan , Minnesota , Missouri and Wisconsin .

Flooding continued as long as two weeks with central Iowa and Cedar Rapids being hardest hit .