Local Wiki
Shelby County
Official County Record
Official source, last checked Sep 14, 2026- Board of Supervisors meets
- 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month at 9:00 a.m.
- Meeting location
- Supervisors Chambers, Shelby County Courthouse, 612 Court St., Harlan, IA 51537.
- County Auditor
- Taryn Knapp · 712-755-3831 · tknapp@shco.org
- Agendas posted at
- https://shelbycounty.iowa.gov/supervisors/meetings_minutes/
- Board of Supervisors
- Board of Supervisors, 3 members. Chairman for 2026: Charles Parkhurst. Vice-Chairman: Mike Kolbe. Member: Bryce Schaben.
Other Known Local Governments Here
These local governments — special-purpose districts, and smaller incorporated cities and towns — are known to exist in this area, but haven’t been individually researched yet, so there’s no meeting info or contacts on file. Listed here as a starting point if you want to look into one yourself; where we could confirm an official website, the name links there. More may exist here than are listed.
Cities (11)
- Defiance
- Earling
- Elk Horn
- Harlan
- Irwin
- Kirkman
- Panama
- Portsmouth
- Shelby (official website, opens in a new tab)
- Tennant
- Westphalia
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program, 2024 · Website links from the official .gov registry and the Census Bureau’s 2022 Government Units listing, checked September 2026
School districts (2)
- Exira-Elk Horn- Kimballton Comm Sch Dist
- Harlan Comm School District
Source: NCES Common Core of Data (via Urban Institute), 2022 directory — regular school districts only