Dubuque, Iowa

Dubuque
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Location of Dubuque in county and state
Basic data
Foundation :	1833
State :	United States
State :	Iowa
County :	Dubuque County
Coordinates :	42 ° 30 ′ N , 90 ° 41 ′ W Coordinates: 42 ° 30 ′ N , 90 ° 41 ′ W
Time zone :	Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants : ; - Metropolitan Area :	58,531 (as of 2016); 97,003 (as of 2016)
Population density :	853.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	71.8 km 2 (approx. 28 mi 2 ) of; which 68.6 km 2 (approx. 26 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	188 m
Postcodes :	52001-52004, 52099
FIPS :	19-22395
GNIS ID :	0456040
Website :	www.cityofdubuque.org
Mayor :	Roy D. Buol
	; The Dubuque County Courthouse

The city of Dubuque ( [ dəbjuːk ] ) with 58,531 inhabitants and an area of 71.8 square kilometers is the administrative seat of Dubuque County in eastern US -amerikanischen state of Iowa .

location

The city is located on the west bank of the Mississippi on the border of the three states of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin in an area that is also known as the Tri-State Area in the region .

Immediate neighboring towns are Shawondasse (17.1 km southeast), Key West (7 km south), Julien (12.2 km west), Asbury (8.3 km west-northwest) and Sageville (7.3 km northwest). The closest locations on the opposite bank of the Mississippi River are Fair Play in Wisconsin (10.9 km northeast) and East Dubuque , Illinois (3.1 km southeast).

The closest major cities are the Quad Cities (115 km south), Iowa's capital Des Moines (330 km southwest), Rochester , Minnesota (275 km northwest), Wisconsin's capital Madison (149 km northeast) and Rockford , Illinois (149 km east) .

traffic

The oldest traffic route is the Mississippi, on which an important part of the flow of goods is still transported through the center of the USA. The river is kept navigable for large barges by dams, of which Lock and Dam No. 11 one is located on the banks of Eagle Point Park in the urban area of Dubuque.

By Dubuque Iowa of the section runs parallel to the Mississippi Great River Road forming US Highway 52 . In the city center, it meets US Highways 20 and 61 and US Highway 151, which has been converted into a freeway . The Highway 20 leads over the Julien Dubuque Bridge to Illinois, the Highways 61 and 151 lead together over the Dubuque - Wisconsin Bridge to Wisconsin.

A Canadian Pacific Railway runs through Dubuque on the west bank of the Mississippi . In the center of the city this crosses a stretch of the Canadian National Railway , which, coming from the west, crosses the single-track Dubuque Rail Bridge in the direction of Illinois.

The Dubuque Regional Airport is located 13.8 km south of the city , via which the city and the region have connections to the national and international air transport network with feeder flights to Chicago O'Hare .

history

Dubuque is the oldest city in Iowa and played in the early colonization of the upper Midwest ( Upper Midwest ) a key role, which is why she still bears the nickname "Key City".

The first non- Indian settler to settle permanently in what would later become Dubuque was a fur trader named Julien Dubuque in 1785. Until then, mainly Indians from the Fox tribe lived in the area . In the following years Dubuque learned of lead deposits in the area and began to mine them until his death in 1810. In 1833 the area was designated for settlement by the US government and in 1837 Dubuque was given city rights under its current name.

As a result, Dubuque attracted numerous immigrants, mainly of Irish and German origin, from the east coast of the USA. Miners were the first to be allowed by the government to take possession of land west of the Mississippi. For a while, the inhabitants of the place lived mainly from mining and fur trade, later the economic spectrum in the city expanded to include logging, boat building and meat processing.

On July 4, 1876, a flood disaster, the so-called Rockwell Flood, occurred in Rockdale near Dubuque, killing 42 people.

Despite an economic slump with high unemployment rates and city emigration in the 1980s, Dubuque developed into an economic and social center in the Tri State Area .

In 1837, a Roman Catholic diocese was established in Dubuque , which was elevated to the archbishopric of Dubuque in 1883 . The episcopal church is the Cathedral of St. Raphael.

Dubuque, St. Raphael Cathedral

Dubuque County Jail in Dubuque, listed on the NRHP since 1972
Dubuque City Hall , listed on the NRHP since 1972
Julien Dubuque Bridge from Dubuque to Illinois, listed in the NRHP since 1999
Lock and dam No. 11 overlooking the Wisconsin shore, listed on the NRHP since 2004

Town twinning

Dubuque's twin cities have been Handan in the People's Republic of China and Pyatigorsk in Russia since the 1990s . Dornbirn has also been a twin town in Vorarlberg, Austria, since 2011 .

Colleges

Loras College (Catholic)
Clarke College (Catholic)
Northeast Iowa Community College
Wartburg Theological Seminary

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	3108	-
1860	13,000	318.3%
1870	18,434	41.8%
1880	25,254	37%
1890	30,311	20%
1900	36,297	19.7%
1910	38,494	6.1%
1920	39.141	1.7%
1930	41,679	6.5%
1940	43,892	5.3%
1950	49,671	13.2%
1960	56,606	14%
1970	62,309	10.1%
1980	62,374	0.1%
1990	57,538	-7.8%
2000	57,686	0.3%
2010	57,637	-0.1%
Before 1850–1990 2000–2010

According to the 2010 census , Dubuque had 57,637 people in 23,623 households. The population density was 840.2 people per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 91.7 percent white, 4.0 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 1.1 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.4 percent of the population.

Statistically speaking, 2.24 people lived in each of the 23,623 households.

21.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.5 percent were 65 years or older. 51.6 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 42,788 USD . The per capita income was $ 23,527. 11.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Kayla Banwarth (* 1989), volleyball player and coach

Carol Barnett (* 1949), composer and flautist

Jay Berwanger (1914–2002), first Heisman Trophy winner

Richard Pike Bissell (1913–1977), writer

Rodney Leland Blum (* 1955), politician, Iowa's member of the US House of Representatives

LeRoy E. Cain (* 1964), NASA engineer

Tom Churchill (born 1961), television and radio - Meteorologist ( ABC , NBC )

Carl DeMaio (* 1974), politician

Justin Albert Driscoll (1920–1984), Bishop of Fargo

Abby Finkenauer (* 1988), politician, Iowa's member of the US House of Representatives

Luke Flynn (* 1988), composer

Thomas Gifford (1937-2000), writer

Fred Kaltenbach (1895–1945), teacher and propagandist

Steve Klink (* 1977), jazz pianist

Dan Koppen (* 1979), offensive lineman for the New England Patriots

Margaret Lindsay (1910–1981), actress

Kate Mulgrew (born 1955), actress on US television (Star Trek: Voyager)

Tucker Poolman (born 1993), ice hockey player

David Rabe (* 1940), writer, playwright and screenwriter

Armin Rhomberg (1901–1985), Austrian politician (ÖVP)

Kevin Rhomberg (born 1955), professional baseball

Alexander Rummler (1867–1959), painter

Mark Steines (born 1964), television journalist (Entertainment Tonight)

Tom Tauke (* 1950), politician

Sara Taylor (* 1974), former Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Political Affairs of George W. Bush

Joseph Clement Willging (1884-1959), Bishop of Pueblo

Personalities attending local colleges

Don Ameche (1908-1993), actor
Moritz Bräuninger (1836–1860), missionary and martyr, Wartburg Theological Seminary
Tony Danza (born 1951), actor
Red Faber (1888-1976), major league baseball player, Hall of Fame
George O'Leary (born 1946), football coach
John Joseph Paul (1918–2006), Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse
Adam Rapp (* 1968), author
Raymond Roseliep (1917–1983), haiku writer, Loras College

Other people related to Dubuque

Edward Albee (1928-2016), writer The Lady from Dubuque ('The Woman from Dubuque')

William B. Allison (1829–1908), politician, US Senator

Leo Binz (1900–1979), Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Dubuque

Alfred von Görtz-Wrisberg (1814–1868), German officer and politician, 1848 revolutionary and emigrant ( Forty-Eighter )

Wilhelm Hoffbauer (1812–1892), German doctor and political emigrant

David B. Henderson (1840–1906), member of the US House of Representatives

Mary Kenneth Keller (1913–1985), Catholic nun who contributed to the development of the BASIC programming language and who was most likely the first woman in the United States to obtain a doctorate in computer science