Pella
Pella is a city in Marion County, Iowa, United States, with a population of 10,464 at the time of the 2020 U.S. Census. Founded by immigrants from the Netherlands, it is forty miles southeast of Des Moines.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 10,500 residents
- Description: city in Marion County, Iowa, United States
- Also known as: “Pella, IA” and “Pella, Iowa”
- Postal code: 50219
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pella Opera House and Central College.
Pella Opera House
Theater building
Photo: Boscophotos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Pella Opera House is a historic building located in Pella, Iowa, United States. Herman Rietveld, a local businessman and promoter, was the main backer for building the opera house, which was underwritten by the Pella Opera House Association.
Central College
University
Photo: Central College Alumni, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Central College is a private college in Pella, Iowa, United States. Affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, the college was founded in 1853 and has been accredited by the Higher Learning Commission or its predecessor since 1942.
Peoples National Bank
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Peoples National Bank is a historic building located in Pella, Iowa, United States. It is significant for its association with Herman Rietveld, a local booster and civic leader during the Progressive Era.
Pella
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Lake Prairie Township, Marion, Central Iowa, Iowa, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.4073° or 41° 24′ 26″ northLongitude
-92.9174° or 92° 55′ 3″ westPopulation
10,500Elevation
886 feet (270 metres)United Nations Location Code
US PELOpen location code
86H9C34M+W2OpenStreetMap ID
node 151454571OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Pella” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيلا”
- Basque: “Pella”
- Catalan: “Pella”
- Cebuano: “Pella”
- Chechen: “Пелла”
- Chinese: “Pella”
- Chinese: “佩拉”
- Danish: “Pella”
- Dutch: “Pella”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيلا”
- French: “Pella”
- German: “Pella”
- Gilaki: “پلا (آیؤوا)”
- Gilaki: “پلا”
- Haitian: “Pella, Iowa”
- Haitian: “Pella”
- Ido: “Pella, Iowa”
- Ido: “Pella”
- Irish: “Pella”
- Italian: “Pella”
- Japanese: “ペラ”
- Kazakh: “Pélla”
- Kazakh: “Пэлла”
- Kazakh: “پەللا”
- Kirghiz: “Пэлла”
- Korean: “펠라”
- Ladin: “Pella”
- Malagasy: “Pella, Iowa”
- Malagasy: “Pella”
- Mazanderani: “پلا (آیووا)”
- Mazanderani: “پلا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pella”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pella”
- Persian: “پلا، آیووا”
- Persian: “پلا”
- Polish: “Pella”
- Russian: “Пелла”
- Serbian: “Pella”
- Serbian: “Пела”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pella, Iowa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pella”
- South Azerbaijani: “پلا، آیووا”
- Spanish: “Pella, Iowa”
- Spanish: “Pella”
- Swedish: “Pella, Iowa”
- Swedish: “Pella”
- Tatar: “Пелла”
- Turkish: “Pella, Iowa”
- Turkish: “Pella”
- Ukrainian: “Пелла”
- Urdu: “پیلا، آئیووا”
- Urdu: “پیلا”
- Uzbek: “Pella”
- Uzbek: “Пелла”
- Vietnamese: “Pella, Iowa”
- Vietnamese: “Pella”
- Volapük: “Pella”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pella, Iowa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pella”
- Welsh: “Pella, Iowa”
- Welsh: “Pella”
- Western Frisian: “Pella”
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