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Casey is a city in Guthrie County, Iowa (with a portion extending into neighboring Adair County), and its Guthrie County portion lies within the Des Moines–West Des Moines metropolitan area.

Casey was platted in 1869 and named for the contracting firm of John and James Casey, whose crews built the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad across Iowa between 1866 and 1869.

Casey was officially incorporated as a city on June 29, 1880.

Most of Casey's streets are named for Union Army generals from the American Civil War.

Casey had 387 residents at the 2020 census, living in 177 households.

Casey's population peaked at 908 in the 1920 census and has declined in nearly every census since.

Casey students are served by the Adair–Casey Community School District, attending Adair–Casey Elementary and AC/GC Junior High in Adair and AC/GC High School in Guthrie Center under a grade-sharing arrangement.

Casey is the hometown of author Thomas William Duncan, whose best-known novel was the 1947 circus story Gus the Great, and the local library is named for him.

In 2015 Casey's city clerk was indicted for embezzling up to $300,000 in city funds and burning down city hall to cover it up; she received a five-year federal prison sentence, and a replacement city hall and community center broke ground in 2018.