Iaeger
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Location in West Virginia
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1917 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | West Virginia | ||
| County : | McDowell County | ||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 28 ′ N , 81 ° 49 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 297 (as of 2007) | ||
| Population density : | 141.4 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 2.1 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of which 2.1 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 300 m | ||
| Postal code : | 24844 | ||
| Area code : | +1 304 | ||
| FIPS : | 54-39652 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1540647 | ||
Iaeger is the southwest of the US state of West Virginia situated town ( Town ). The town, which was once shaped by hard coal mining, has had declining economic and population numbers for decades. Iaeger gained a certain fame as the location of one of the most famous photos by O. Winston Link .
geography
The south of West Virginia is a furrowed region of the Appalachian Mountains , with some deeply cut watercourses . Numerous places in the area were laid out in narrow valleys following existing traffic routes. Iaeger is located at the confluence of the Coon Branch and Lick Branch to the Dry Fork , a tributary of the Tug Fork . The highways US Route 52 and West Virginia Route 80 as well as two railway lines of the Norfolk Southern Railway - the main line from Williamson to Bluefield and a branch line branching off in Iaeger to Cedar Bluff near Richlands - also run in the local area .
The County Seat Welch is about 20 km east of Iaeger, Charleston about 100 km north.
history
William GW Iaeger, a former Colonel of the Confederate with German ancestors, acquired larger areas of land in the area of today's city after the end of the American Civil War . Iaeger and his son, William R. Iaeger, started coal mining on their property in the 1880s and supported the settlement of miners and their families in the valley. In 1917 the resulting village, which had previously been informally referred to as Lewis' Camp after the surveyor and brigadier general Andrew Lewis from the War of Independence , was elevated to a town and officially named after Colonel Iaeger, who had since died.
For decades, Iaeger was shaped by mining and loading coal onto trains of the then Norfolk and Western Railway . With the decline in coal production in the region, the place lost its importance. In particular due to the lack of income opportunities, the population of Iaeger has been decreasing continuously since the 1950s, similar to numerous comparable surrounding towns. At the beginning of the 1980s there were around 600 inhabitants, in 2000 there were 358 and in July 2007 297.
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Demographics
The 2000 census recorded 358 people in 167 households and 106 families in Iaeger. After ethnic voting, the residents were split between 96.37% white, 2.51% African-American and 1.12% "other race".
The average household in Iaeger in 2000 had 2.14 people; the average family size was 2.75 people. The average age was 44 years; the ratio between adult women and men at 100 to 83.8. The average household had an annual income of $ 14,886 and families $ 21,250. Men received an average of $ 23,750 and women $ 35,000. The per capita income was 17,263 dollars per year and was thus still well below the already low nationally average income for the entire state of West Virginia. Around 32.8% of the population or 29% of families lived below the poverty line.
Individual evidence
- ^ Iaeger, West Virginia, on city-data.com . Retrieved November 12, 2008 .
- ^ Hot Shot, Eastbound, Iaeger, West Virginia, 1956 photo by O. Winston Link
- ^ Howard Burton Lee: Looking Backward One Hundred Years in Appalachia . McClain Print. Co., Parsons 1981, ISBN 0-87012-421-8 .
- ^ Census 2000 US Gazetteer Files. Retrieved November 12, 2008 .