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Ottumwa

Ottumwa is a city in and the county seat of , United States. The population was 25,529 at the time of the 2020 U.S. census. Located in the state's southeastern section, the city is split into northern and southern halves by the .
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  • Type: City with 25,500 residents
  • Description: city in and the county seat of Wapello County, Iowa, United States
  • Also known as: “Ottumwa, IA” and “Ottumwa, Iowa”
  • Postal code: 52501

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ottumwa station and Wapello County Courthouse.

Railway station
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
is an Amtrak intercity train station in Ottumwa, , . The station was originally built by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and has been listed as Burlington Depot by the National Register of Historic Places since November 26, 2008.

Courthouse
Photo: Cburnett, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The in Ottumwa, Iowa, United States, was built in 1894. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 as a part of the County Courthouses in Iowa Thematic Resource.

Library
Photo: Dohrs16, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a public library located in downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, United States. The current building was built in 1902. It is part of the Central Park area, which is the civic center of the community.

Ottumwa

Latitude
41.0196° or 41° 1′ 10″ north
Longitude
-92.4117° or 92° 24′ 42″ west
Population
25,500
Elevation
673 feet (205 metres)
IATA airport code
OTM
United Nations Location Code
US OTM
Open location code
86H92H9Q+R8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151774708
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4870380
Wiki­data ID
Q853566
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Ottumwa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوتوموا (آيوا)”
  • Arabic: “أوتوموا”
  • Basque: “Ottumwa”
  • Catalan: “Ottumwa”
  • Cebuano: “Ottumwa”
  • Chechen: “Оттамва”
  • Chinese: “Ottumwa”
  • Chinese: “奥塔姆瓦”
  • Chinese: “奧塔姆瓦”
  • Czech: “Ottumwa”
  • Dagbani: “Ottumwa”
  • Danish: “Ottumwa”
  • Dutch: “Ottumwa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوتوموا”
  • French: “Ottumwa”
  • German: “Ottumwa”
  • Gilaki: “اوتوما (آیؤوا)”
  • Gilaki: “اوتوما”
  • Haitian: “Ottumwa, Iowa”
  • Haitian: “Ottumwa”
  • Hebrew: “אוטומווה”
  • Hungarian: “Ottumwa”
  • Ido: “Ottumwa, Iowa”
  • Ido: “Ottumwa”
  • Interlingua: “Ottumwa”
  • Irish: “Ottumwa”
  • Italian: “Ottumwa”
  • Japanese: “オタムワ”
  • Kazakh: “Ottwmva”
  • Kazakh: “Оттумва”
  • Kazakh: “وتتۋمۆا”
  • Kirghiz: “Оттумва”
  • Korean: “어텀와”
  • Korean: “오텀와”
  • Ladin: “Ottumwa”
  • Malagasy: “Ottumwa, Iowa”
  • Malagasy: “Ottumwa”
  • Mazanderani: “اوتوموا (آیووا)”
  • Mazanderani: “اوتوموا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ottumwa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ottumwa”
  • Norwegian: “Ottumwa”
  • Persian: “اوتوموا، آیووا”
  • Persian: “اوتوموا”
  • Polish: “Ottumwa”
  • Portuguese: “Ottumwa”
  • Romanian: “Ottumwa, Iowa”
  • Russian: “Оттамуа (Айова)”
  • Russian: “Оттамуа”
  • Serbian: “Ottumwa”
  • Serbian: “Отамва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ottumwa, Iowa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ottumwa”
  • Slovak: “Ottumwa”
  • Slovenian: “Ottumwa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوتوموا، آیووا”
  • Spanish: “Ottumwa (Iowa)”
  • Spanish: “Ottumwa”
  • Swedish: “Ottumwa”
  • Tatar: “Оттамва”
  • Turkish: “Ottumwa, Iowa”
  • Turkish: “Ottumwa”
  • Ukrainian: “Оттамва”
  • Urdu: “آٹوموا، آئیووا”
  • Urdu: “آٹوموا”
  • Uzbek: “Ottumwa”
  • Uzbek: “Оттумwа”
  • Vietnamese: “Ottumwa, Iowa”
  • Vietnamese: “Ottumwa”
  • Volapük: “Ottumwa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ottumwa, Iowa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ottumwa”
  • Welsh: “Ottumwa, Iowa”
  • Welsh: “Ottumwa”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ottumwa”. Photo: Gcardinal101, CC BY-SA 4.0.