Kirksville, Missouri

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Kirksville
Adair County Courthouse in Kirksville, listed on the NRHP since 1978 [1]
Adair County Courthouse in Kirksville, listed on the NRHP since 1978
Location in Missouri
Adair County Missouri Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Kirksville Highlighted.svg
Basic data
Foundation : 1848
State : United States
State : Missouri
County : Adair County
Coordinates : 40 ° 12 ′  N , 92 ° 35 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 12 ′  N , 92 ° 35 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 17,505 (as of 2010)
Population density : 645.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 27.2 km 2  (approx. 11 mi 2 ) of
which 27.1 km 2  (approx. 10 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 299 m
Postal code : 63501
Area code : +1 660
FIPS : 29-39026
GNIS ID : 735678
Website : www.kirksvillecity.com
Mayor : Richard L. Detweiler
Kirksville Traveler's Hotel.jpg
Travelers Hotel in Kirksville, listed in the NRHP since 2009

Kirksville is a city and county seat of Adair County in the north of the US -amerikanischen state of Missouri . At the 2010 census , Kirksville had 17,505 residents.

Kirksville is home to the state Truman State University and the private A. T. Still University .

geography

Kirksville lies at 40 ° 11'37 "north latitude and 92 ° 34'58" west longitude and extends over 27.2 km², which consists almost entirely of land. Kirksville is a few miles west of the Chariton River , a tributary of the Missouri .

Neighboring towns are Novinger (14.7 km west-northwest), Greentop (17.8 km north), Sperry (17.3 km northeast), Clay (14 km north-northeast), Millard (11.1 km south), Yarrow (12 miles southwest) and Youngstown (10 miles west).

The nearest major cities are Quincy in Illinois (119 km east-northeast), St. Louis (329 km southeast), Missouri's capital Jefferson City (196 km southeast), Kansas City (290 km southeast), Omaha , Nebraska (409 km) km northwest), Des Moines , Iowa (150 miles northwest), and the Quad Cities in Iowa and Illinois (315 miles northeast).

traffic

US Highway 63 runs north-south as a bypass around central Kirksville. Missouri State Routes 6 and 11 intersect in the city center .

South on the 13 km of the city near the village Millard located Kirksville Regional Airport has Kirksville connection to the national air network.

In La Plata, about 22 km south-southwest, there is an Amtrak station on a route maintained by the BNSF Railway , where the Southwest Chief long- distance express train stops.

Demographic data

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1860 658 -
1870 1471 123.6%
1880 2314 57.3%
1890 3510 51.7%
1900 5966 70%
1910 6347 6.4%
1920 7213 13.6%
1930 8293 15%
1940 10,080 21.5%
1950 11,110 10.2%
1960 13,123 18.1%
1970 15,569 18.6%
1980 17.167 10.3%
1990 17,152 -0.1%
2000 16,988 -1 %
2010 17,505 3%
1860-1990 2000-2010

As of the 2010 census , Kirksville had 17,505 people in 6,512 households. The population density was 645.9 people per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 92.3 percent white, 2.2 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 2.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.7 percent of the population.

Statistically, 2.22 people lived in each of the 6,512 households.

16.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 72.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 11.2 percent were 65 years or older. 53.9 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 26,865  USD . The per capita income was $ 15,209. 31.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Known residents

Individual evidence

  1. Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 78001636 Retrieved January 31, 2012
  2. Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 09000718.Retrieved January 31, 2012
  3. a b c U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts - Kirksville, MO ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 31, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / quickfacts.census.gov
  4. Google Maps. Retrieved January 31, 2012
  5. ^ Decennial Census of Populations and Housing.Retrieved January 31, 2012

Web links

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