Hiawatha: CR - I-380 @ MM 24.4 (Blairs Ferry Rd NE)
Hiawatha straddles the northern urban fringe of Cedar Rapids in eastern Iowa, a position that has made it a suburban community closely tied to the region’s road network. Interstate 380 crosses the city and meets Blairs Ferry Road near its southern side, linking local neighborhoods with Cedar Rapids and points north toward Waterloo. The Cedar River, which runs through Cedar Rapids, is the main waterway of this urban area and a defining feature of Linn County’s landscape. Hiawatha belongs to the Cedar Rapids metropolitan area, yet its built form is largely low-rise: residential streets, shops, workplaces and broad transport corridors sit among mature tree cover. The city’s name evokes Hiawatha, the Indigenous figure made widely familiar by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1855 poem.
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