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Cascade is a city that straddles the line between Dubuque County and Jones County in eastern Iowa, about 25 miles southwest of the city of Dubuque.

Cascade is unusual in that its Dubuque County portion belongs to the Dubuque metropolitan area, while its Jones County portion belongs to the Cedar Rapids metropolitan area.

Cascade's motto is 'The Place We Call Home.'

Cascade had 2,386 residents at the 2020 census, living in 970 households, up from 1,958 residents in 2000.

The North Fork Maquoketa River passes through Cascade.

Arguably the most notable historic event in Cascade's history was the flood of 1925.

Between 1880 and 1936, Cascade was connected to Bellevue by Iowa's last narrow-gauge railroad, a 3-foot-gauge line whose curves and grades were considered too extreme to ever convert to standard gauge.

U.S. Route 151 runs past Cascade, and in 2002 a four-lane bypass took through traffic around the north side of the city.

All public school students in Cascade are zoned to the Western Dubuque Community School District, attending Cascade Elementary School and Cascade Junior-Senior High School, both in town.

Cascade also has a Catholic school tradition: parochial students attend Aquin Elementary School in Cascade and then Beckman Catholic High School in nearby Dyersville.