CEDAR FALLS, a city of Black Hawk county, Iowa, U.S.A., on the Cedar river, loom. W. of Dubuque. It is on Federal high ways 20 and 218, and is served by the Rock Island, the Illinois Central, The Chicago Great Western and the Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern railways. The population in 1930 (Federal census) was 7,362. Imported breeds of horses, cattle and sheep are raised in the surrounding country, and there are large deposits of sand and limestone. The city utilizes its water-power for sundry manufactures. It is the seat of the State Teachers college (estab lished in 1876 as a normal school), which has a resident enrolment of over 7,000. Settlement began here in 1847. The town was laid out in 1851, and chartered as a city in 1865.