Peosta is a city in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, and an exurb of the city of Dubuque. It is allocation of the Dubuque, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,908 in the 2020 census, an buildup of 193% from 651 in 2000. Peosta experienced a 70% increase in population (estimated) from 2000 to 2007, making it the state’s 10th fastest-growing city during that period. Peosta is currently the sixth-largest city in Dubuque County, but it will likely soon passEpworth (pop. 1,860) to become the fifth-largest. The community is house to the 2015 ASA D Northern Nationals Men’s Slow Pitch Champions, Kass & Company, a large industrial park, the largest campus of Northeast Iowa Community College, and a handful of new trailer businesses. However, the city is increasingly becoming a bedroom community, much like to hand Asbury, made going on of suburban subdivisions.

Peosta is named after the leader of a local Native American tribe that bearing in mind lived in Dubuque County. Chief Peosta, of the Mesquakie tribe, was a near friend of Julien Dubuque, one of the first European settlers in the area. Dubuque was in addition to the founder of the City of Dubuque, Iowa, and was allegedly married to Chief Peosta’s daughter, who was reportedly named “Potosa”.

For most of its history, and even as recently as 1990, Peosta was a quiet rural town of nearly 100 people. The groundwork for later addition was laid in the 1960s, when the other four-lane U.S. Route 20 opened along the city’s southern edge, providing quick access to Dubuque. The city was with aided by the opening of Northeast Iowa Technical Institute (later NICC) in 1979. However, it was only next the city’s industrial park began to flourish in the 1990s that the population began to soar. Peosta grew from 128 people in 1990 to on peak of 1,300 today, and it continues to climb rapidly. This 1000% growth in 20 years has helped attract further businesses and facilities to Peosta as well. The city now boasts two elementary schools, its own community center, hotel, church, industrial park and expanding neighborhoods.

Peosta has a mayor–council form of government, employing a full-time city clerk, and part-time city council (mayor and five at-large city council members). The city clerk is Karen Snyder, the current mayor is James Merten, and the council members are: Steve Gremmel, Gerry Hess, Ray Stephan, Jesse Begle, and Karen Lyons. The city council meets at 7 P.M. on the second Tuesday of the month at the Peosta Community Centre.