Editing Hamburg, Iowa (section)

==History==
The city is less than a quarter mile from the Missouri state line. The first settlers in the community were people who actually thought they were settling in Missouri following the [[Platte Purchase]] of former Indian territory there across the state line opened up settlement. The first formal settlement in the Hamburg vicinity were by the brothers James McKissick, Cornelius McKissick, Daniel McKissick who established McKissick's Grove. A survey was made when Iowa entered the union in 1846, and only then did the settlers discover that they were in Iowa and not Missouri.<ref name="iagenweb1">{{cite web |url=http://iagenweb.org/fremont/history/andreas.htm |title=Fremont County, Iowa history from Andreas' Atlas of Iowa 1875 |publisher=Iagenweb.org |access-date=2013-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726205942/http://iagenweb.org/fremont/history/andreas.htm |archive-date=2013-07-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The brothers were also involved in another [[Border irregularities of the United States|border irregularity]] when they bought [[McKissick Island]] a mile south of Hamburg. They thought at the time the island in the Missouri River was attached to Nebraska territory. The river changed course in 1867 resulting in the island becoming physically attached by dry land to Missouri and cut off from Nebraska by the main channel. Missouri and Nebraska both claimed the island and it was decided in 1904 by the U.S. Supreme Court that it belonged to Nebraska, although the states did not formally agree to the arrangement until 1999. In the meantime students from the Nebraska island passed through Missouri en route to being educated in Hamburg in Iowa.<ref name="iagenweb1"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nenemaha/comhist.html#McKiss |title=History of Communities: Nemaha Co. NEGenWeb |publisher=Rootsweb.ancestry.com |access-date=2013-04-02}}</ref>

Hamburg was formally laid out in 1857 at the behest of Augustus Borchers (August Heinrich B., August 26, 1817, Harburg near Hamburg, Germany - November 23, 1885, Hamburg (Ia.))<ref>Ernst August Borchers: ''Borchers aus Goslar 1400-2000 - A Family's History''</ref> who named for the German city and was formally incorporated on April 1, 1867 at about the same time as it was reached by the Council Bluffs and St. Joseph Railroad.  A second railroad Nebraska City Branch of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad (which came from [[Red Oak, Iowa]]) came through in 1870.<ref name="iagenweb1"/>

Alex and Arthur Vogel started Vogel and Son Popcorn Company in 1948. The company grew to the point where he bought the city's old water tower and train station to store his popcorn - the two structures hold a million pounds of popcorn.  In 1960 the city started its Popcorn Days festival (replacing an earlier named peony festival). Vogel Popcorn is now owned by [[ConAgra Foods]] but remains headquartered in the city. Its popcorn is used in [[Act II (popcorn)|Act II]] and [[Orville Redenbacher's]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Enke |first=Phil |url=http://www.hamburgreporter.com/article/20100914/NEWS/309149998 |title=Art Vogel honored for sparking celebration - News - Hamburg Reporter - Hamburg, IA |publisher=Hamburg Reporter |date=2010-09-14 |access-date=2013-04-02}}</ref>

The city gets considerable publicity during periods of Missouri River flooding, including most recently the [[2019 Midwestern U.S. floods]], which left the city without sewage, water or gas. In 2012, residents sought to raise funds for repairs to the city's [[flood control]] levee with a [[flash mob]] dance video of "Proud Mary," but did not receive the $5 million needed.<ref name=":152">{{Cite web|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/10/09/iowa-flooding-2019-missouri-river-buyouts-flood-recovery-fema/2287374001/|title=205 days and counting: For western Iowa, recovery from historic flooding remains a long way off|last=Norvell|first=Kim|date=October 9, 2019|website=Des Moines Register|language=en|access-date=2019-12-08}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/11/us/midwest-flooding.html|title=The Great Flood of 2019: A Complete Picture of a Slow-Motion Disaster|last=Almukhtar|first=Sarah|last2=Migliozzi|first2=Blacki|date=September 11, 2019|website=[[New York Times]]|access-date=2019-09-15|last3=Schwartz|first3=John|last4=Williams|first4=Josh}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/04/10/snow-iowa-mayor-flooding|title='Half Of Our Town Is Still Underwater': One Iowa Mayor Worries About More Flooding As Snow Hits The Midwest|last=Young|first=Robin|last2=McMahon|first2=Serena|date=April 10, 2019|website=[[WBUR-FM|WBUR]]|language=en|access-date=2019-09-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ketv.com/amp/article/hamburg-iowa-devastated-by-flooding-is-without-water-sewage-and-gas/26874613|title=Hamburg, Iowa, devastated by flooding, is without water, sewage and gas|last1=Everson|first1=Sean|date=19 March 2019|website=KETV Omaha|publisher=ABC|access-date=22 March 2019}}</ref>

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Image:Full breach at levee L-575 near Hamburg.jpg|An aerial view of the breach at levee L-575 near Hamburg, which occurred June 13, 2011 and increased to nearly 300 feet in size.
Image:July 2011 Flooding Near Hamburg Iowa.jpg|Natural-colour satellite image of muddy flood water near Hamburg after the levee breach.
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