SW Iowa
Montgomery
East Township

Villisca

Villisca is a city in East Township, , United States. The population was 1,132 at the time of the 2020 census. It is most notable for the unsolved axe murder that took place in the town during the summer of 1912.
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  • Type: Village with 1,130 residents
  • Description: city in Montgomery County, Iowa, United States
  • Also known as: “Villisca, IA”, “Villisca, Iowa”, and “Villiska”
  • Postal code: 50864

Villisca

Latitude
40.9293° or 40° 55′ 46″ north
Longitude
-94.9769° or 94° 58′ 37″ west
Population
1,130
Elevation
1,076 feet (328 metres)
Open location code
86G7W2HF+P6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151352145
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4880228
Wiki­data ID
Q639077
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Villisca” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فيليسكا”
  • Basque: “Villisca”
  • Catalan: “Villisca”
  • Cebuano: “Villisca”
  • Chechen: “Виллиска”
  • Chinese: “Villisca”
  • Chinese: “维利斯卡”
  • Czech: “Villisca”
  • Danish: “Villisca”
  • Dutch: “Villisca”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيليسكا”
  • French: “Villisca”
  • Galician: “Villisca”
  • German: “Villisca”
  • Gilaki: “ویلیسکا (آیؤوا)”
  • Gilaki: “ویلیسکا”
  • Haitian: “Villisca, Iowa”
  • Haitian: “Villisca”
  • Ido: “Villisca, Iowa”
  • Ido: “Villisca”
  • Irish: “Villisca”
  • Italian: “Villisca”
  • Kazakh: “Виллиска”
  • Kirghiz: “Виллиска”
  • Ladin: “Villisca”
  • Mazanderani: “ویلیسکا (آیووا)”
  • Mazanderani: “ویلیسکا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Villisca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Villisca”
  • Persian: “ویلیسکا، آیووا”
  • Persian: “ویلیسکا”
  • Polish: “Villisca”
  • Portuguese: “Villisca”
  • Serbian: “Villisca”
  • Serbian: “Вилиска”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Villisca, Iowa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Villisca”
  • Slovak: “Villisca”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویلیسکا، آیووا”
  • Spanish: “Villisca”
  • Swedish: “Villisca”
  • Tatar: “Виллиска”
  • Turkish: “Villisca, Iowa”
  • Turkish: “Villisca”
  • Ukrainian: “Вілліска”
  • Uzbek: “Villisca”
  • Vietnamese: “Villisca, Iowa”
  • Vietnamese: “Villisca”
  • Volapük: “Villisca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Villisca, Iowa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Villisca”
  • Welsh: “Villisca, Iowa”
  • Welsh: “Villisca”

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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 “Villisca”. Photo: Vac4rcm2, CC BY-SA 4.0.