Menlo

The landscape around Menlo is gently rolling prairie farmland, which has shaped both the town’s compact layout and its farm-based economy. Set in Guthrie County in central Iowa, Menlo belongs to the wider North Raccoon River watershed, a landscape of cultivated fields, small waterways and rural roads. The community was founded in 1879 as the railroad reached this part of the state, and that rail-era origin remains visible in the settlement pattern of a place built on connections between farms and markets. Menlo is small, yet it represents the working agricultural character of inland Iowa rather than a resort or metropolitan destination. See how Menlo relates to central Iowa by browsing webcams in nearby communities.

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