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About Lime Springs, IA

Lime Springs is a small farming town of about 440 people in northeast Iowa's Howard County, near the Minnesota border. Highway 9 runs right through town, connecting it east to Cresco and west toward Minnesota. Highway 139 provides the main north-south route through the area. The town gets its name from the limestone springs that early settlers found here in the 1850s.

Where is Lime Springs, IA on the map?

Lime Springs, IA is in United States, at 43.450, -92.284 - about 9 km south-east of Chester, IA.

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The closest airport to Lime Springs, IA is Rochester International Airport, 66 km (about 1 h 1 min by car).

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