Editing Sergeant Bluff, Iowa (section)

==History==
The city was named in honor of [[U.S. Army]] [[Sergeant]] [[Charles Floyd (explorer)|Charles Floyd]], a native of [[Kentucky]] who was one of the first men to enlist in the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] in the early 1800s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.sup.clarke.01|title=The Men of the Lewis & Clark Expedition|last=Clarke|first=Charles G.|publisher=Center for Great Plains Studies, [[University of Nebraska-Lincoln]]|access-date=March 6, 2020}}</ref> Just three months into the two-year journey, Floyd became violently ill and died the next day, August 20, 1804, of what is believed to have been a ruptured [[Appendix (anatomy)|appendix]].<ref name=JournalAug19>{{cite web|url=https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.jrn.1804-08-19|title=The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition|last=Clark|first=William|date=August 19, 1804|publisher=Center for Great Plains Studies, [[University of Nebraska-Lincoln]]|access-date=March 6, 2020}}</ref><ref name=JournalAug20 /><ref name=PBS>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/cfloy.html|title=Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (Ken Burns Film)|publisher=[[PBS]]|access-date=March 6, 2020}}</ref> He was buried on a hill overlooking an unnamed river on the Iowa side of the [[Missouri River]]. In his honor, the expedition's leaders, [[Meriwether Lewis]] and [[William Clark]], named the river [[Floyd River]] and the hill [[Floyd's Bluff]], now part of [[Sioux City, Iowa|Sioux City]].<ref name=JournalAug20>{{cite web|url=https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.jrn.1804-08-20|title=The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition|last=Clark|first=William|date=August 20, 1804|publisher=Center for Great Plains Studies, [[University of Nebraska-Lincoln]]|access-date=March 6, 2020}}</ref> Floyd was the expedition's only casualty.<ref name=History>{{cite web|url=https://www.history.com/news/lewis-clark-timeline-expedition|title=Lewis and Clark: A Timeline of the Extraordinary Expedition|last=Roos|first=David|date=January 16, 2020|publisher=[[History (American TV channel)|History]]|access-date=March 6, 2020}}</ref>

The village of Sergeant Bluff was started in 1852, south of what became Sioux City, and under the name of Sergeant's Bluff City, it become the first town in [[Woodbury County, Iowa|Woodbury County]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cityofsergeantbluff.com/community/history/|title=History|publisher=City of Sergeant Bluff|access-date=March 6, 2020}}</ref> The city was incorporated May 2, 1904 in the centennial year of Floyd's death.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.city-data.com/city/Sergeant-Bluff-Iowa.html |title= Sergeant Bluff, Iowa |publisher= City-Data.com|accessdate=August 31, 2012}}</ref>