Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant is a city in and the county seat of in the U.S. state of . The population was 9,274 in the 2020 census, an increase from 8,668 in the 2010 census. It was founded in 1835 by pioneer Presley Saunders.
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  • Type: Town with 9,270 residents
  • Description: city in Henry County, Iowa, United States
  • Also known as: Mount Pleasant, IA”, “Mount Pleasant, Iowa”, and “Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
  • Postal code: 52641

Places of Interest

Highlights include Union Block and Mount Pleasant station.

Building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, was built by William McCandless in 1861. Historically it was used as offices and by the county courts. In the in 1869, Arabella A.

Railway station
is an Amtrak intercity train station in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad built the pressed brick depot in 1912.

Aerodrome
is a city-owned public-use located three nautical miles southeast of the central business district of Mount Pleasant, a city in , , . is situated 2½ miles southeast of Mount Pleasant.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Westwood.

Village
is a city in , , United States. The population was 101 at the time of the 2020 census. is situated 3½ miles west of Mount Pleasant.

Mount Pleasant

Latitude
40.96631° or 40° 57′ 59″ north
Longitude
-91.554° or 91° 33′ 14″ west
Population
9,270
Elevation
715 feet (218 metres)
IATA airport code
MPZ
Open location code
86GCXC8W+GC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151603602
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4868205
Wiki­data ID
Q613167
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Mount Pleasant” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: ماونت بليسانت
  • Basque: Mount Pleasant
  • Bosnian: Mount Pleasant
  • Catalan: Mount Pleasant
  • Cebuano: Mount Pleasant
  • Chechen: Маунт-Плезант
  • Chinese: Mount Pleasant
  • Chinese: 悅峰市(愛荷華州)
  • Chinese: 芒特普莱森特
  • Chinese: 芒特普萊森特
  • Chinese: 蒙普列仁
  • Czech: Mount Pleasant
  • Dagbani: Mount Pleasant
  • Danish: Mount Pleasant
  • Dutch: Mount Pleasant
  • Egyptian Arabic: ماونت بليسانت
  • French: Mount Pleasant
  • German: Mount Pleasant
  • Gilaki: مأؤنت پلزنت (آیؤوا)
  • Gilaki: مأؤنت پلزنت
  • Greek: Μάουντ Πλέσαντ
  • Haitian: Mount Pleasant, Iowa
  • Haitian: Mount Pleasant
  • Hebrew: הר פלסנט
  • Hungarian: Mount Pleasant
  • Ido: Mount Pleasant, Iowa
  • Ido: Mount Pleasant
  • Irish: Mount Pleasant
  • Italian: Mount Pleasant
  • Japanese: マウントプレザント
  • Kazakh: Маунт Плисант
  • Kirghiz: Маунт Плисант
  • Ladin: Mount Pleasant
  • Malagasy: Mount Pleasant, Iowa
  • Malagasy: Mount Pleasant
  • Mazanderani: ماونت پلیزنت (آیووا)
  • Mazanderani: ماونت پلیزنت
  • Min Nan Chinese: Mount Pleasant
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Mount Pleasant
  • Persian: ماونت پلیزنت، آیووا
  • Persian: ماونت پلیزنت
  • Polish: Mount Pleasant
  • Portuguese: Mount Pleasant
  • Russian: Маунт-Плезант
  • Serbian: Mount Pleasant
  • Serbian: Маунт Плезант
  • Serbo-Croatian: Mount Pleasant, Iowa
  • Serbo-Croatian: Mount Pleasant
  • Slovak: Mount Pleasant
  • Slovenian: Mount Pleasant
  • South Azerbaijani: ماونت پلیزنت، آیووا
  • Spanish: Mount Pleasant (Iowa)
  • Spanish: Mount Pleasant
  • Swedish: Mount Pleasant, Iowa
  • Swedish: Mount Pleasant
  • Tatar: Маунт-Плезант
  • Turkish: Mount Pleasant, Iowa
  • Turkish: Mount Pleasant
  • Ukrainian: Маунт-Плезант
  • Urdu: ماؤنٹ پلیزینٹ، آئیووا
  • Urdu: ماؤنٹ پلیزینٹ
  • Uzbek: Mount Pleasant
  • Vietnamese: Mount Pleasant, Iowa
  • Vietnamese: Mount Pleasant
  • Volapük: Mount Pleasant
  • Waray (Philippines): Mount Pleasant, Iowa
  • Waray (Philippines): Mount Pleasant
  • Welsh: Mount Pleasant, Iowa
  • Welsh: Mount Pleasant

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