Carbon, Iowa

About Carbon

Carbon, IA is a tiny community located in southwestern Iowa, home to 32 residents as of the latest Census estimates.

Carbon holds the status of an incorporated city with its own municipal government. The community covers 0.75 square miles, giving it wide-open spaces and a spread-out, rural feel at roughly 43 residents per square mile.

📰 Carbon News Today

• Summit pushes for utilities commission action on outstanding pipeline dockets Iowa Capital Dispatch · Oct 8
• Iowa Delays Summit Carbon Pipeline Hearings as Farmers Defend Their Land Rights AgroLatam · Oct 9
• Iowa landowners protest Iowa Utilities Commission’s orders regarding Summit Carbon Solutions’ pipeline project & Dunwell’s appointment KTVO · Oct 8
• Mesabi Metallics to build a $15B lower-carbon steel mill in Iowa Canary Media · Sep 29
• What’s Next for Summit’s Carbon ‘Pipeline to Nowhere’? Inside Climate News · Sep 14

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What Makes Carbon Unique

• With 32 residents, it's one of America's smallest incorporated communities — everybody really does know everybody.
• Positioned in southwestern Iowa, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.
• Part of the fabric of Iowa — one of 1,026 recognized communities statewide.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 11 miles.

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