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Ken - I am attaching a list of Iowa facilities, and structures. if you would like this narrowed down to a particular set of cities, I would be happy to try to accommodate. Any additions or corrections to this data would be appreciated.
I am also including below, the data that I have on the city of Ft. Madison: The first settlers arrived in 1832, and the town of Fort Madison was platted in 1835. Prior to the deepening of the MIssissippi River conducted by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1837, and the construction of a dam and canal in 1877, the river was not navigable between the Rock Island Rapids and the Des Moines Rapids, which began at Nauvoo, 11 miles south of Ft. Madison, and extended to Keokuk. These geographic features and the lack of a bridge across the Mississippi, made Ft. Madison an isolated community that had developed around the Fort Madison U.S. Army Post, established in around 1804. The opening of the Santa Fe's Mississippi River Bridge in 1887 made Ft. Madison a vital transportation hub connecting Chicago and the eastern seaboard with Kansas City and the western United States. Other railroads operated in a north-south direction, connecting Wisconsin, Minnesota, and northern Iowa with Des Mones and St. Louis. Although the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe was the most important railroad, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy also played an important part in its history. The city of Fort Madison was established around the site of the historic Fort Madison (1808–1813), which was the first permanent U.S. military fortification on the Upper Mississippi. Fort Madison was one of three posts established by the U.S. Army to establish control over the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase territories. Fort Madison was built to control trade and pacify Native Americans in the Upper Mississippi River region. The other two posts were Fort Belle Fontaine near St. Louis, which controlled the mouth of the Missouri, and Fort Osage, near what is now Kansas City, which controlled trade with western Native American tribes. A disputed 1804 treaty with the Sauk Indian tribe and affiliated tribes led to the U.S. claim of control over western Illinois and parts of what is now Iowa. To establish control, the U.S. Army set out to construct a post near the mouth of the Des Moines River, a major trading route into the interior of Iowa. Not finding suitable land near the mouth of the Des Moines, the expedition also considered land near Quashquame's Sauk and Meskwaki village at the head of the Des Moines Rapids, a choke point of trade and transportation on the Upper Mississippi below modern Montrose. Again, this land was not considered suitable for a fort. The Army settled on a location several miles upstream at what is now the city of Fort Madison As the War of 1812 expanded to the frontier, British-allied Sauk and other tribes began a determined effort to push out the Americans and reclaim control of the upper Mississippi. Beginning in July 1813, attacks on troops outside the fort led to another siege. Conditions were so dangerous that the Army could not recover the bodies of soldiers killed outside the fort and troops could not leave the fort to collect firewood. The Army burned outbuildings to prevent them from falling into Indian hands. After weeks of paralyzing siege, the Army finally abandoned the post, burning it as they evacuated.
From [2] 1. https://www.fortmadison-ia.com/280/History-of-Fort-Madison 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Madison,_Iowa 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Moines_Rapids
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