Grand Mound

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Grand Mound
Downtown Grand Mound
Downtown Grand Mound
Location in Iowa
Clinton County Iowa Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Grand Mound Highlighted.svg
Basic data
State : United States
State : Iowa
County : Clinton County
Coordinates : 41 ° 49 ′  N , 90 ° 39 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 49 ′  N , 90 ° 39 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 642 (as of 2010)
Population density : 136.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 4.71 km 2  (about 2 mi 2 )
Height : 221 m
Postal code : 52751
Area code : +1 563
FIPS : 19-32025
GNIS ID : 457024

Grand Mound is a small town (with the status " City ") in Clinton County in the eastern part of the US -amerikanischen state of Iowa . In 2010 , Grand Mound had 642 residents.

geography

Grand Mound, the center of Orange Township , lies at 41 ° 49'27 "north latitude and 90 ° 38'53" west longitude and extends over 4.71 km². The place is about 35 km west of the Mississippi , which forms the border with Illinois . The Wisconsin border runs approximately 85 km north.

Neighboring towns to Grand Mound are Delmar (25.2 km north), DeWitt (9.8 km east), Donahue (17.9 km south), Dixon (13.5 km southwest) and Calamus (11 km west).

The nearest major cities are Dubuque (54 miles north), Rockford , Illinois (180 miles east-northeast), the Quad Cities (42.1 km southwest), Iowa City (101 km west-southwest), and Cedar Rapids (59.3 miles west-northwest ).

traffic

US Highway 30 runs through the center of Grand Mound in a west-east direction . All other roads are subordinate partly unpaved roads as well as inner-city roads.

A Union Pacific Railroad line runs parallel to Highway 30 .

The nearest airports are Maquoketa Municipal Airport, 22 miles northeast, and Clinton Municipal Airport , 19 miles east ; the nearest major airport is Quad City International Airport, 54.7 km south-southeast .

Demographic data

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1880 234 -
1890 247 5.6%
1900 355 43.7%
1910 428 20.6%
1920 463 8.2%
1930 438 -5.4%
1940 526 20.1%
1950 526 0%
1960 565 7.4%
1970 627 11%
1980 674 7.5%
1990 619 -8.2%
2000 676 9.2%
2010 642 -5%
1870-2000 2010

According to the 2010 census , Grand Mound had 642 people in 243 households. The population density was 136.3 people per square kilometer. Statistically, there were 2.64 people each in the 243 households.

The racial the population was composed of 98.9 percent white and 0.3 percent Asian; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.7 percent of the population.

24.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.6 percent were 65 years or older. 49.1 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 45,987  USD . The per capita income was $ 19,334. 16.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved June 16, 2012
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed June 14, 2012
  3. ^ Iowa Data Center (PDF; 84 kB) Retrieved June 14, 2012

Web links

Commons : Grand Mound, Iowa  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files