Panora

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Panora
Aerial view of Panora and Lake Panorama
Aerial view of Panora and Lake Panorama
Location in Iowa
Guthrie County Iowa Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Panora Highlighted.svg
Basic data
Foundation : 1851 (settled)
1872 (incorporated)
State : United States
State : Iowa
County : Guthrie County
Coordinates : 41 ° 42 ′  N , 94 ° 22 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 42 ′  N , 94 ° 22 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
Metropolitan Area :
1,124 (as of 2010)
599,789 (as of 2013)
Population density : 241.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 4.66 km 2  (approx. 2 mi 2 )
Height : 328 m
Postal code : 50216
Area code : +1 641
FIPS : 19-61320
GNIS ID : 460010
Website : cityofpanora.com
Mayor : Patrick Parker

Panora is a small town (with the status " City ") in Guthrie County in the US -amerikanischen State Iowa . In 2010 Panora had 1,124 inhabitants, the number of which had decreased to 1,092 by 2013.

Panora is part of the metropolitan area around Iowa's capital Des Moines .

geography

Panora is located in southwest Iowa center below the Lake Panorama , a reservoir of about Raccoon River and the Des Moines River to the basin of the Mississippi belonging Middle Raccoon River .

The geographical coordinates of Panora are 41 ° 41'30 "north latitude and 94 ° 21'47" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of ​​4.66 km² and is located in the Cass Township .

Neighboring towns of Panora are Lake Panorama (on the northwestern city limits), Yale (10.6 km north), Linden (12.3 km southeast) and Guthrie Center (12.1 km west).

The center of Des Moines is 45 miles to the east. The nearest other major cities are the Twin Cities in Minnesota ( Minneapolis and Saint Paul ) (449 km northeast), Waterloo (240 km northeast), Cedar Rapids (150 miles east-northeast), Iowa City (150 miles east), Kansas City in Missouri ( 350 km south), Nebraska's largest city, Omaha (174 km west-southwest), Sioux City (236 km northwest), and South Dakota's largest city, Sioux Falls (370 km in the same direction).

traffic

The Iowa State Highway 44 runs in a west-east direction as the main road through the urban area of ​​Panora and meets in the center on the southern endpoint of the Iowa State Highway  4 . All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

By Panora north-south running in on the route of a former railway line of the former Chicago and North Western Railway with the Raccoon River Valley Trail , a rail trail for hikers and cyclists.

With the Guthrie County Regional Airport is located 6.3 km west-southwest of a small airfield. The nearest commercial airport is Des Moines International Airport (80 km east-southeast).

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1860 314 -
1870 504 60.5%
1880 795 57.7%
1890 809 1.8%
1900 958 18.4%
1910 1080 12.7%
1920 966 -10.6%
1930 1014 5%
1940 1169 15.3%
1950 1062 -9.2%
1960 1019 -4%
1970 982 -3.6%
1980 1211 23.3%
1990 1100 -9.2%
2000 1175 6.8%
2010 1124 -4.3%
2013 estimate 1092 -2.8%
1870-2000 2010-2013

population

According to the 2010 census , there were 1124 people in 460 households in Panora. The population density was 241.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.31 people lived in each of the 460 households.

The racial the population was composed of 98.5 percent white, 0.2 percent (two people) African American, 0.4 percent Asian and 0.1 percent (one person) from other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.4 percent of the population.

26.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 51.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 22.2 percent were 65 years or older. 55.2 percent of the population were female.

The average annual income for a household was 50,536  USD . The per capita income was $ 24,517. 8.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Known residents

Individual evidence

  1. Business Record: Metro population Expands West - Census Bureau Retrieved on November 16, 2014
  2. City of Panora - Contact.Retrieved November 16, 2014
  3. a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved November 16, 2014
  4. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on November 16, 2014
  5. ^ Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation - Raccoon River Valley Trail ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 16, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.inhf.org
  6. AirNav.com - Guthrie County Regional Airport Accessed on November 16, 2014
  7. State Data Center of Iowa (PDF; 86 kB) Retrieved November 16, 2014

Web links

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