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Mediapolis is a city in Des Moines County, Iowa, and it is part of the Burlington, Iowa-Illinois Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Mediapolis was founded in 1869 as a railroad station serving the nearby town of Kossuth, on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railway between Burlington and Wapello.

The Reverend W. G. Kephart suggested the name Mediapolis — from "media," meaning middle — because the new town sat exactly halfway between the county seats of Burlington and Wapello.

Mediapolis was incorporated in 1875, with Charles P. King as its first mayor, and its first council meeting was held on July 27, 1875.

From 1875 until the mid-20th century, Mediapolis was a true railroad junction, where the Burlington and Northwestern Railway to Washington crossed the original north-south line; the north-south line was abandoned after the Rock Island Railroad ceased operations in 1980.

Mediapolis's school district dates to 1873, when the Independent School District of Mediapolis held its first classes in temporary quarters under teacher Maggie Bruce.

Mediapolis had 1,688 residents in the 2020 census, living in 640 households and 420 families.

The 2020 census count of 1,688 people was the largest population ever recorded in Mediapolis, capping growth of 8.2% during the 2010s.

Mediapolis covers only about 1.2 square miles, all of it land, making it one of the more compact small cities in southeast Iowa.