Manhattan (Kansas)
| Manhattan | |
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| Nickname : Little Apple | |
_County_Courthouse_1.jpg) Riley County Courthouse in Manhattan, Kansas |
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| Location in Kansas | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1857 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Kansas |
| County : | Riley County |
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 12 ′ N , 96 ° 36 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
52,281 (as of 2010) 88,212 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 1,344 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 38.9 km 2 (approx. 15 mi 2 ) of which 38.9 km 2 (approx. 15 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 311 m |
| Postcodes : | 66502, 66503, 66505, 66506 |
| Area code : | +1 785 |
| FIPS : | 20-44250 |
| GNIS ID : | 0476378 |
| Website : | www.ci.manhattan.ks.us |
| Mayor : | Bruce Sneed |
Manhattan is the administrative seat of Riley County in the northeast of the US -amerikanischen state of Kansas . The city is located on the Kansas River and has a population of 51,707.
In reference to the nickname Big Apple for New York City , the city is also called the Little Apple . Kansas State University is located in the city . Fort Riley Army Base is 13 km west of the city .
In 2007, CNN and Money magazine ranked Manhattan one of the top ten places in the country for high net worth dropouts.
geography
Manhattan is 39 ° 11'30 "north latitude and 96 ° 35'30" west longitude. The city extends over an area of 38.9 km², which consists exclusively of land.
Manhattan lies on the northwest bank of the Kansas River , into which the Big Blue River flows east of the city . This is dammed north of the city to Tuttle Creek Lake .
In Manhattan, US Highway 24 meets a number of secondary roads. Interstate 70 , which connects Denver with Kansas City , is 15 km south of the city .
It is 56 miles east on Highway 24 to Topeka , the capital of Kansas. Continue on the same street to Kansas City. It is 793 km west to Denver. Wichita, the largest city of Kansas, is 211 km south; of Omaha , the largest city of the neighboring state of Nebraska , it is 307 km to the north.
history
In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act released the area around what is now the city for settlement. In the fall of the same year, George S. Park founded the first Euro-American settlement on the area of the present city and named it Polistra.
The neighboring settlement of Canton was founded a little later.
In March 1855, Free-Staters (opponents of slavery) came from New England under the auspices of the New England Emigrant Aid Company to the Kansas Territory and settled near the two existing settlements. Soon after, the three settlements merged and decided to name the city Boston.
In June 1855 a steamship with 75 settlers from Ohio , who actually wanted to settle further up, ran aground. They decided to settle here now, but insisted that the new city be named Manhattan . In 1857 the settlement was elevated to a town.
The early settlers occasionally came into conflict with the local Indians , but the conflicts between opponents and advocates of slavery, called Bleeding Kansas , were far more serious . But the army post in nearby Fort Riley protected the city as much as possible.
Early bloom was achieved when gold was found in the Rocky Mountains in 1859 . Gold prospectors drove through Manhattan on their way to Colorado . Since Manhattan was the last city before the march to the Rocky Mountains, the city's traders were able to benefit from the needs of the prospectors.
At the same time, Manhattan developed into an educational center. So in 1858 a local branch of the Methodist Bluemont Central College was established . In 1861, when Kansas joined the Union as a state, a university was founded in Manhattan. In 1863 the Kansas State Agricultural College was established, which is now part of Kansas State University .
In 1866 the Kansas Pacific Railroad ran through Manhattan. Manhattan has seen its population grow steadily since its inception.
| Population development | ||
| year | Residents | change |
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| 1870 | 1,173 | |
| 1880 | 2,105 | + 79.5% |
| 1890 | 3,004 | + 42.7% |
| 1900 | 3,438 | + 14.4% |
| 1910 | 5,722 | + 66.4% |
| 1920 | 7,989 | + 39.6% |
| 1930 | 10.136 | + 26.9% |
| 1940 | 11,659 | + 15.0% |
| 1950 | 19,056 | + 63.4% |
| 1960 | 22,993 | + 20.7% |
| 1970 | 27,575 | + 19.9% |
| 1980 | 32,644 | + 18.4% |
| 1990 | 37,712 | + 15.5% |
| 2000 | 44,831 | + 18.9% |
| 2010 | 52.281 | + 16.6% |
Demographic data
In 2007, Manhattan had an estimated 51,707 residents.
In the last census in 2000 , the population was 44,831. These were distributed over 16,949 households in 8,254 families. The population density was 1152.4 / km². There were 17,690 buildings, which corresponds to a building density of 454.7 / km².
The population in 2000 was 87.28% white , 4.86% African American , 0.48% Native American , 3.93% Asian and 1.37% other. 1.17% stated that they descended from at least two of these groups. 3.49% of the population were Hispanics from any of the above groups.
15.8% were under 18 years of age, 39.2% between 18 and 24, 24.0% between 25 and 44, 13.2% between 45 and 64 and 7.8% 65 and older. The average age was 24 years. Statistically, there were 106.4 men for every 100 women, 105.4 for those over 18 years of age.
The median income per household was $ 30,463 and the median family income was $ 48,289. The average income for men was $ 31,396 and the average for women was $ 24,611. The per capita income was $ 16,566. Around 8.7% of families and 24.2% of the total population had their income below the poverty line , with 10.1% of them under 18 and 7.8% over 65 years of age.
However, these figures say little about the actual income situation in the city. The statistics are falsified by the high proportion of students in the total population.
Attractions
The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art and Kansas State University Gardens are located on the grounds of Kansas State University. Not far from the university is Aggieville, a shopping center with bars, cafes and restaurants, which is mainly geared towards students.
With the Sunset Zoo, Manhattan is home to a zoo that is a member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums .
Pawnee , now the uninhabited first capital of the Kansas Territory, is located not far from Manhattan on the grounds of the Fort Riley military base.
Fort Riley is the headquarters of the Big Red One called 1st US Infantry Division .
Education
The Kansas State University 23,520 students is the largest employer in Manhattan.
Manhattan is also home to Manhattan Christian College , Manhattan Area Technical College , American Institute of Baking, and the Kansas Building Science Institute .
Culture and sport
The large number of students in Manhattan determines the city's cultural life, which essentially focuses on the following areas:
- Aggieville is the center of the nightlife.
- Downtown Manhattan, the old city center, offers not only shopping opportunities but also space for galleries and restaurants. The Manhattan Town Center Mall , located in the heart of the old town, opened in the late 1980s .
- The Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium , Bramlage Coliseum, and other sports facilities attract sports fans from across the region. These facilities are also used for concerts.
traffic
Manhattan is connected to a number of different modes of transport:
air traffic
The Manhattan Regional Airport is located about 11 km southwest of the city. American Eagle has two daily connections to Dallas . Great Lakes Airlines flies to Kansas City and Denver .
The nearest major airports are in Kansas City and Wichita .
railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad maintains a route through the city that is used by around 16 trains a day. Passenger traffic to and from Manhattan ceased in 1971.
Public road transport
Manhattan is served by the Riley County's ATA Bus paratransit system . Buses do not operate according to a rigid timetable, but are more geared towards current needs. The further optimization of the local transport concept is currently being worked on. A fleet of smaller buses and minivans is available for this.
The supraregional bus transport is taken over by Greyhound Lines .
Trunk roads
Several highways run through Manhattan and its surroundings:
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Interstate 70 - runs around 15 km south of Manhattan, three exits have direct connections to Manhattan:
- Exit 303 - Kansas Highway 18
- Exit 307 - McDowell Creek Road
- Exit 313 - Kansas Highway 177
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US Highway 24 - runs through Manhattan from the northwest and leaves the city to the east -
Kansas Highway 18 - crosses the city in a west-east direction, the regional airport is connected to Manhattan via Kansas Highway 18 -
Kansas Highway 113 - forms the western tangent and connects Kansas Highway 18 to US Highway 24 -
Kansas Highway 177 - comes into the city from the south and finds its northern end point in the center
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sons and daughters of the town
- Bob Anderson (born 1947), runner, journalist and publisher, founder of Runner's World
- John Byers Anderson (1817–1897), Army officer in the American Civil War
- Charles Bachman (1924–2017), computer scientist and Turing Prize winner
- Elizabeth Williams Champney (1850-1922), writer
- Louis Chaudet (1884–1965), film director, author
- James Chelikowsky (* 1948), physicist
- Del Close (1934-1999), actor
- Bobby Douglass (* 1947), former National Football League player
- Brian Doyle-Murray (born 1945), actor
- David Fairchild (1869-1954), botanist
- Philip Fox (1878-1944), astronomer
- Brian Giles (* 1960), former major league baseball player
- Jonathan Holden (born 1941), poet, first Poet Laureate from Kansas
- Karen Lee Killough (born 1942), author
- Albert E. Mead (1861–1913), fifth Governor of Washington State
- Benjamin Franklin Mudge (1817–1879), geologist
- Jordy Nelson (born 1985), football player
- Mitsugi Ohno (1926–1999), glass blower
- Cassandra Peterson (born 1951), actress, model
- Merrill D. Peterson (1921-2009), historian
- Deb Richard (born 1963), golf professional
- Damon Runyon (1880-1946), writer
- Fred Andrew Seaton (1909–1974), former Senator from Nebraska , former United States Secretary of the Interior
- Bill Snyder (* 1939), NCAA football coach at Kansas State University
- Gary Spani (* 1956), National Football League player, was inducted into the Hall of Fame
- Walter J. Stoessel (1920–1986), diplomat
- Samuel Wendell Williston (1852-1918), scientist
- Robert A. Woodruff (* 1943), physicist, developer of instruments in space exploration
- Earl Woods (1932-2006), father of Tiger Woods
Twin cities
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Dobřichovice , Czech Republic , since 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ US Postal Service - ZIP Codes
- ↑ Find a county ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ US Census Bureau - 2007 Estimates
- ^ Best Places to Retire Young
- ↑ a b c Parrish, Donald (2004). This Land is Our Land: The Public Domain in the Vicinity of Riley County and Manhattan, Kansas. Riley County Historical Society. ISBN 0-9677686-2-4 . OCLC 54769277.
- ↑ www.jstor.org Streeter, Floyd Benjamin (1975). The Kaw: The Heart of a Nation . New York: Arno Press. ISBN 978-0-405-06889-8 . OCLC 2180188.
- ↑ Geary County Legends ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2012 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.
- ^ US Census Bureau - Manhattan, Kansas
- ^ Marianne Kistler Beach Museum
- ↑ Sunset Zoo
- ↑ www.k-state.edu ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.rileycountyks.gov ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Official website of Manhattan (English)
- Tourist Office of Manhattan (English)