Place:What Cheer, Keokuk, Iowa, United States

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NameWhat Cheer
TypeCity
Coordinates41.401°N 92.355°W
Located inKeokuk, Iowa, United States
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What Cheer (pronounced 'WOT-cheer') is a city in Keokuk County, Iowa, United States. It is a former coal town, and from the 1870s to the early 1900s was one of the major coal-producing centers of Iowa. Its greatest recorded population was 3,246, in the 1890 census. The population was 607 in the 2020 census.

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