Editing Cresco, Iowa (section)

==History==
[[File:Cresco airport.jpg|thumb|Cresco airport]]
Cresco was [[plat]]ted in 1866, when the railroad was expanding into the area.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n4QUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA416 | title=History of Chickasaw and Howard Counties, Iowa, Volume 1 | publisher=S. J. Clarke Publishing Company | author=Fairbairn, Robert Herd | year=1919 | pages=416}}</ref> "Cresco" is Latin for "I grow".<ref name="Profile for Cresco, Iowa, IA"/> Cresco was incorporated on June 6, 1868.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.city-data.com/city/Cresco-Iowa.html|title= Cresco, Iowa|publisher= City-Data.com |access-date= September 25, 2012}}</ref>

On October 20, 1980, ''[[The David Letterman Show]]'' was broadcast from Cresco, the winner of a competition to host the show.<ref>{{cite episode
|title=The David Letterman Show
|air-date=October 20, 1980
|url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CdJu-5-zpfw&t=289s
| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/CdJu-5-zpfw| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|network=[[NBC]]
|credits=David Letterman}}{{cbignore}}</ref>