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Coralville is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is a suburb of Iowa City and allocation of the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 22,318 at the 2020 census.

Coralville is the location of the Edgewater Park Site, a 3,800-year-old archaeological site along the Iowa River. Edgewater is the oldest site in Iowa past evidence of domesticated forest use.

Coralville incorporated as a city upon June 1, 1857. The city’s reveal is derived from the fossils that are found in the limestone along the Iowa River. In 1864, Louis Agassiz, a Harvard University zoologist, gave a lecture at the affable University of Iowa titled “The Coral Reefs of Iowa City”. During the lecture, he presented local samples of fossilized Devonian epoch coral. The lecture was well received and helped raise public interest in the local fossils. In 1866, more corals were discovered at the site of a further mill, inspiring the citizens of the Place to say the settlement “Coralville”. The first mill at Coralville was built in 1844, and in the years that followed, a number of watermills were powered by the Coralville mill dam along the Iowa River, but whatever of the mills had closed by 1900, except for a low-head hydroelectric reforest that remained in operation until the mid 20th century.