Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Carlisle, IA

Carlisle was laid out in 1851 by Jeremiah "Uncle Jerry" Church and David Moore, and it was named after Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Carlisle was founder Jeremiah Church's third attempt at a town - his earlier town of Dudley, laid out in the winter of 1845, was destroyed by the Flood of 1851 after officials rejected it as a county seat site because it sat on low ground.

Carlisle was incorporated on May 10, 1870, and its first schoolhouse had been built in 1853 at a cost of just $393.

When the railroad was built through Carlisle in 1871, the town's business district moved down from its original hilltop into the valley along the tracks, leaving the hill mostly residential.

Carlisle sits between the North River and the Middle River near where they join the Des Moines River, and the city straddles the line between Warren and Polk counties.

The 2020 census counted 4,160 people in Carlisle, up 7.3 percent from 2010, living in 1,590 households.

Carlisle is part of the Des Moines-West Des Moines metropolitan area, on the southeastern edge of the metro.

Carlisle drew worldwide media attention in 1997 when residents Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey became the parents of the world's first surviving set of septuplets.

The Summerset Trail, a rail trail running south toward Indianola, has its northern terminus in Carlisle.

Local children attend the Carlisle Community School District, which runs a high school and elementary campus in Carlisle and an upper elementary campus in nearby Hartford.