Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Sully, IA

Sully is a Jasper County city named after Alfred Sully, a railroad man; the town was platted in 1882 and incorporated in 1901.

Sully sits on the Diamond Trail, the historic auto trail that once carried travelers between Des Moines and Iowa City, and it once served as a depot town on a branch line of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad.

Sully had 881 residents at the 2020 census, living in 352 households; its population peaked at 904 in 2000, and it has grown in most censuses since counting just 282 people in 1910.

The Sully Telephone Association, organized in 1903 and incorporated on May 4, 1904, is a locally owned cooperative that still provides phone service to Sully and the surrounding countryside.

The Jasper County Freedom Rock, part of the statewide series of patriotic boulders painted by Raymond 'Bubba' Sorensen II, stands in Sully.

Sully's Dutch heritage shows in its church skyline: three mid-sized churches - Sully Christian Reformed, Sully First Reformed, and Sully Community Church - stand within close proximity of the town square.

Sully is home to the Van Wijk Winery and to the Hometown Press, a newspaper and print shop on the square that covers Jasper, Mahaska, Marion, and Poweshiek counties.

Sully is served by the Lynnville-Sully Community School District, created by the 1956-57 consolidation of the Lynnville and Sully schools, whose teams compete in the South Iowa Cedar League.

Sully has two public parks, including a city park on the square with a rose garden and gazebo, and a ball park with two softball diamonds on the east end of town.

The nearby Diamond Trail Golf Club, established in 1997 in Lynnville about four miles east, is a 9-hole, par-36 course named for the same historic trail that runs through Sully.