Des Moines, Iowa (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"He came from a little town near Des Moines, Iowa, called Wayneville, where he had worked for twenty years in a hotel."

"I come from Des Moines, in Iowa. They don’t have anything like the ocean back there."

"from Boston and Kansas City and Des Moines, they sold their homes and their stores"

"A medium sort of girl, the sort who, compact in white nylon and white nurses’ shoes, might take your order in a busy lunchroom in Des Moines. Why Des Moines? I don’t know. She just looks that way."