Editing Clarinda, Iowa (section)

==Transportation==
'''Road Network'''

Clarinda is located on US Highway 71 and Iowa Highway 2. In the past, both of these highways came through the center of town, but there is now a bypass that takes both highways to the south and east of Clarinda proper. There is also a good network of “farm to market” or county roads servicing the area.<ref>Rand McNally 2020 Road Atlas, p.38, copyright 2019</ref>

'''Railroad Service'''

Early in its history, Clarinda was served by railroads from seven different directions - 5 of which were predecessors to the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q). The short westbound leg of track connecting Clarinda to Shenandoah was torn up in 1936 due to a washout of the track. In 1946, service was lost on the eastbound leg to Humeston and the line southwest to Tarkio, Missouri, through Coin, Iowa. Service was maintained south of Clarinda until the 1950s and was then trimmed back to a branch serving Clarinda from the main line to the north at Villisca, Iowa. This line survived a merger into the Burlington Northern but was abandoned in the 1980s. The beautiful brick depot in Clarinda still survives and is now the Student Union of the Iowa Western Community College-Clarinda campus.

There were two additional shortline railroads that ran to Clarinda. One was the Iowa & Southwestern which connected Clarinda southwest through College Springs to the Iowa-Missouri border town of Blanchard. The I&SW had its own depot very close to the Clarinda CB&Q Depot. It was abandoned before 1914. The second route was the Clarinda and St. Louis Railroad which ran south out of Clarinda roughly paralleling the CB&Q line to the east and terminating in Rosenberry, Missouri. This line joined with the Wabash Railroad just a few miles east of the CB&Q line also from Clarinda interchanged with the Wabash in the town of Burlington Junction, Missouri. The Clarinda and St. Louis Railroad was abandoned in the 1899 after only a few years of operation.<ref>Corbin, Bernard G and Hardy, Joseph C.; Across Iowa on the Keokuk & Western and the Humeston & Shenandoah Railroads,; p. 125; Copyright 1986 by Corbin Publications</ref><ref>State of Iowa, Iowa Department of Transportation, Chronology of Iowa Railroad Abandonments, July 1, 2016</ref><ref>Walker, Mike; SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America, Prairies East and Ozarks, 2004 p.23</ref>

Clarinda now joins a growing list of county seats in Iowa without rail service.[12]

'''Air Service'''

Camp Clarinda was located by what today is the town's municipal airport, Schenck Field (named for aviator/farmer Ray Schenck, who built the original Clarinda Airport on the location).