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1975 – present
Where the floor cities grew by plats and rings, North Liberty grew, when it grew, along its highway. The annexation the Court of Appeals sustained in Whitmer v. Town of North Liberty (1979) took a strip on either side of State Road 23, 345 to 352 feet wide — the town reaching along SR 23 rather than subdividing a new quarter, and the controversies leg carries the case whole. The town's land area by census vintage tells the same small story: 0.75 square miles in 2000, 0.98 in 2010, 1.04 in 2020, the increments of corridor and edge rather than of named subdivisions. No postwar subdivision with a name — no Reverewood, no ring of plats — is carried by any record reached for this town, and the absence is printed as the town's form, not as a missing chapter.