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The ledger, November 2026
The often-told facts that fail the document test are named here and failed in print. First: that Potato Creek State Park is in North Liberty. Told on addresses everywhere — the park's address is 25601 State Road 4, North Liberty — and failed as a statement about the town: the park stands about three miles east of the town, in Liberty Township, on township ground, as the banked spine prints at the head of its park article. The postal address is a postal fact; the park is not town ground. Second: that the town's population in 2020 was about 1,446. The figure circulates — it belongs to a divergent compilation whose 2000 figure is 1,445 — and it fails against the Census Bureau's published series as banked: the 2020 count of record is 1,623. Third: that the aluminum plant's name chain explains its founding. Fourth: that North Liberty's two railroads make it a railroad town still. They are both abandoned, the last abandonment closing in 1989, and no rail line serves or passes the town today (Railroads, banked). The ledger closes the leg as the baseline requires: with the failures printed, at the same size as the facts that stood.