Jones County, Iowa

Solid Waste Management Commission Meeting

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Board of Supervisors Meeting - Revised Agenda

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OWLS Spring Ephemerals Hike

Maquoketa Caves are not just for bats! Spring ephemerals are early blooming flowers, that carry great ecological importance! They provide a food source for pollinators before peak blooming season.

Naturalists from Dubuque, Jackson, and Jones County will be leading a hike through the woods to find these small but spectacular flowers.
Participants should be ready to hike on rough terrain, and dress for the weather. OWLS (Older Wiser Livelier Souls) events are 18+ and geared for adults. Registration is encouraged through Jackson County Conservation (563)652-3783

Veteran Affairs Commission Meeting - Jones County Veterans Affairs Commission

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Annual Midwest Crane Count

Help monitor the abundance and distribution of Sandhill and Whooping Cranes in Jones County.  Join us at sunrise on Saturday April 18th.  Contact  the Jones County Crane Counter Coordinator, Michele Olson for more information and to learn how you can participate.   

Central Park Earth Day Celebration & Litter Cleanup!

Celebrate Earth Day at Central Park and the Central Park Nature Center on Wednesday, April 22nd!

From 10:00 AM – Noon, stop by the Nature Center to take part in a community clean-up event as part of the Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup and the Keep Iowa Beautiful Pick-Up Iowa campaign.

You’ll be assigned an area of Central Park to help pick up litter. Please bring your work gloves and hiking footwear. We’ll provide garbage bags, loaner buckets, and litter pickers. Be sure to check out the Nature Center displays, make some pollinator seed balls, and enjoy refreshments following the cleanup event.

Have pollinator plants you are thinning from your butterfly gardens?  Bring your extra plants to swap!    Our pollinator plant swap will be taking place from 9 AM - 4 PM outside below the Central Park Nature Center.   Bring a bucket and take home some free pollinator plants for your garden.

Ever tried Yoga?  Here's your chance to try Yoga in the Park led by Zen House Yoga.   Join this free yoga session at noon outside the lower level of the Central Park Nature Center.  In the event of light rain or drizzle this activity  will be held at the parks south side open air shelter.

Get your hands dirty and make some pollinator seed balls to take home and plant.  Our seed ball station will be set up in the lower level of the Central Park Nature Center from 1-4 PM.  Make and take as many seed balls as you will plant.  We'll have seeds for milkweed, native prairie, zinnia, and sunflower seed balls.

The Central Park Nature Center will be open to visitors from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM on Earth Day.

For more information on upcoming events and programs hosted by Jones County Conservation, visit:

https://www.jonescountyiowa.gov/conservation/

Come enjoy the sights and sounds of spring while making a difference in your community!

OWLS - Homestead & Hammer - Spring Garden Tour -

Tour the gardens at Homestead & Hammer, an 1860s botanical paradise in Bellevue, Iowa, on Wednesday, April 29 at 9:30 AM.  

Being cultivated by a botanist in the 18 and 1900's and later by fellow horticulturists, the property is flourishing with medicinal herbs and plants, lush garden beds, spring ephemerals, florals, mycelium and fungus galore.  

Owner Jessica Oye grew up in a small Amish community where she learned old traditions for homesteading. See how they have blended these skills into their property and how they make these experiences available to the community.  

The tour will last approximately one hour.

Following the tour, participants will have time to shop in the store on site.  

Program is free and open to adults.

Please note, the site does have a lot of stairs and some steep paths. 

This is an OWLS event - open to any adult wanting to learn more about nature. OWLS events are a collaboration between Dubuque, Jackson, and Jones County Conservation. 

Registration is required to attend. Please contact Jackson County Conservation at (563) 652-3783 or email jwagner@jacksoncounty.iowa.gov to register or for more information. Address and directions will be provided for registered participants. Carpooling is available from the Hurstville Interpretive Center. 

Recorder Month End Transaction Deadline

Jones County Recorder's office

• Business will be cut-off early on Thursday, April 30, 2026
  • Marriage Applications - 2:30 PM deadline
  • The following will cut-off at 3:00 PM :
    • Real Estate Recordings
    • ATV, ORV, ORM, snowmobile and boat transactions
    • Hunting & Fishing licenses
    • Certified Vital Record requests
    • Passport pictures with credit/debit card payments

Jones County Youth Conservation Crew

Youth Volunteers WANTED!  Youth ages 12-18  can join the 2026 Jones County Youth Conservation Crew.  Join conservation staff in leadership activities, educational conservation and ecology lessons, and hands on service learning  Thursday mornings in June from 9 AM - Noon.  Register at https://www.mycountyparks.com/County/Jones/Events

Jones County Youth Conservation Crew

Youth Volunteers WANTED!  Youth ages 12-18  can join the 2026 Jones County Youth Conservation Crew.  Join conservation staff in leadership activities, educational conservation and ecology lessons, and hands on service learning  Thursday mornings in June from 9 AM - Noon.  Register at https://www.mycountyparks.com/County/Jones/Events