Bloomington (Indiana)
| Bloomington | |
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 Monroe County Courthouse |
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| Location of Bloomington, Indiana | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1818 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Indiana |
| County : | Monroe County |
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 10 ′ N , 86 ° 32 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) |
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
84,465 (as of 2016) 166,336 (as of 2016) |
| Population density : | 1,652.9 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 51.6 km 2 (approx. 20 mi 2 ) of which 51.1 km 2 (approx. 20 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 235 m |
| Postcodes : | 47400-47499 |
| Area code : | +1 812 |
| FIPS : | 18-05860 |
| GNIS ID : | 0431207 |
| Website : | www.bloomington.in.gov |
| Mayor : | Mark Kruzan |
Bloomington is a city in Monroe County in the US state of Indiana , United States , with 84,465 inhabitants (as of 2016). It is 80 km south of Indianapolis. The urban area has a size of 51.6 km 2 .
Bloomington is the location of the main campus of Indiana University with around 42,000 students and the seat of the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research , the renowned Jacobs School of Music, the Kelley School of Business and the Maurer School of Law.
The Oscar- winning film Four Crazy Guys - We Can All Can, Nobody Can Make Us (1979) about the annual local bike race Little 500 was filmed in Bloomington.
Population development
| year | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 |
| Residents | 1,305 | 6,460 | 28.163 | 52,044 | 60,633 | 69.291 | 80.405 |
Source: US Census Bureau
Attractions
- Indiana Memorial Union
- John L. Nichols House
31 structures and sites in Bloomington and the surrounding area are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of October 22, 2019), including the Blair-Dunning House .
Town twinning
Bloomington maintains city partnerships since 1988 with Posoltega in Nicaragua and since 1999 with Santa Clara in Cuba.
Personalities
Born in Bloomington:
- Arija Bareikis (born 1966), actress
- Joshua Bell (* 1967), violinist
- Meg Cabot (* 1967), author and illustrator
- Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981), composer, pianist, actor and singer
- Sara Caswell (* 1978), violinist
- Joe Dowell (1940-2016), pop and folk singer-songwriter
- Mick Foley (born 1965), wrestler and author
- Karen Joy Fowler (born 1950), writer
- Rex Grossman (born 1980), American football player
- Bobby Helms (1933–1997), country singer
- Joe L. Hensley (1926-2007), science fiction writer and lawyer
- David Lee Roth (* 1954), singer in the hard rock group Van Halen
- Mary Hamilton Swindler (1884–1967), archaeologist and art historian
- Jeri Taylor (* 1938), screenwriter and television producer
- George G. Wright (1820-1896), politician
Died in Bloomington:
- Peter Boerner (1926–2015), German-American literary scholar and Goethe researcher, on June 12, 2015
- Linda Dégh (1920–2014), Hungarian folklorist, on August 19, 2014
- Bernhard Heiden (1910–2000), German-American composer and university lecturer for music, on April 30, 2000
- Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894–1956), American sex researcher, August 25, 1956
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1936–1977), American saxophonist, December 5, 1977
- Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998), Swiss-German religious philosopher, on May 5, 1998
- György Sebők (1922–1999), Hungarian pianist, on November 14, 1999
- Oskar Seidlin (1911–1984), German-American Germanist and author, on December 11, 1984
- János Starker (1924–2013), American cellist of Hungarian origin, on April 28, 2013
- Camilla Williams (1919–2012), African-American soprano, on January 29, 2012
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.iu.edu/~uirr/reports/standard/factbook/?path=%2F2012-13%2FBloomington%2FFast_Facts%2FFast_Facts
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↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed October 22, 2019.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed October 22, 2019.