Six Sites at Wickiup Hill added to National Register

The Wickiup Hill Natural Area, managed by Linn County Conservation, contains six sites that have been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The area is part of a 751-acre site northwest of Cedar Rapids within the Cedar River Greenbelt. The Linn County Historic Preservation Commission submitted the nomination. 

Learn more about the six historic sites.

Linn County Sheriff's Office Implements Medical Priority Dispatch System

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office is excited to announce the implementation of the Medical Priority Dispatch System™ (MPDS) to better serve residents of Linn County.

With this new system, Communications Operators will follow nationally recognized standards and research-based protocols to identify life-threatening situations and to safely prioritize calls for response. The protocols guide Communications Operators through a series of questions to ask callers in order to identify the problems so they can send the correct type of help, provide first responders with accurate information so they can more effectively give care once on the scene, and so they can provide lifesaving and safety instructions to callers and patients before responders arrive. 

COVID-19 Updates

Effective April 1, 2022, Linn County Public Health will end reporting COVID-19 metrics and case data at the county level on its website but will continue to report the community COVID-19 level as provided by the CDC and share links for resources. At this time, case data is still available on the Iowa Department of Public Health website.

Linn County Public Health, in partnership with Coll Consulting, has produced a COVID-19 After Action Report to summarize local pandemic response and to document key takeaways. While the pandemic is not over, the report covers a 16-month period from January 2020 through June 2021 when the first COVID-19 cases began to spread in the United States to when vaccines were becoming more readily available throughout the country.  

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