Shellsburg
| Shellsburg | |
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 Location in Iowa
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1854 (settled) 1874 (incorporated) |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Iowa |
| County : | Benton County |
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 6 ′ N , 91 ° 52 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
983 (status: 2010) 257,940 (status: 2010) |
| Population density : | 494 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 1.99 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) |
| Height : | 241 m |
| Postal code : | 52332 |
| Area code : | +1 319 |
| FIPS : | 19-72480 |
| GNIS ID : | 461565 |
| Website : | shellsburg.com |
| Mayor : | Danny Roehr |
Shell Castle is a small town (with the status " City ") in Benton County in the US -amerikanischen State Iowa . In 2010 , Shellsburg had 983 residents.
Shellsburg is part of the metropolitan area around the city of Cedar Rapids .
geography
Shellsburg is located in eastern Iowa on Bear Creek , which is part of the Mississippi River basin over the Cedar River and the Iowa River . This forms the border between Iowa and Wisconsin and Illinois around 140 km east . The Minnesota border runs 170 km north and the Missouri border runs 200 km south of the city .
The geographical coordinates of Shellsburg are 42 ° 05'40 "north latitude and 91 ° 52'10" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 1.99 km².
Neighboring towns of Shellsburg are Urbana (15.2 km north), Center Point (17.8 km northeast), Palo (9.3 km southeast), Atkins (12.9 km south), Newhall (19.7 km southwest), and Vinton (11 miles northwest).
Shellsburg is between the towns of Cedar Rapids (26.6 km southeast) and Waterloo (68 km northwest). The nearest other major cities are Iowa City (71 km southeast), Wisconsin's capital Madison (283 km northeast), Rockford , Illinois (283 km east), Chicago , Illinois (406 km in the same direction), the Quad Cities in Iowa and Illinois (154 km east-southeast), St. Louis , Missouri (484 km south-southeast), Kansas City , Missouri (493 km south-southwest), Iowa's capital Des Moines (183 km west-southwest), Nebraska's largest city, Omaha (405 km in the same direction) , Sioux City (405 km west), South Dakota's largest city Sioux Falls (542 km west northwest), Rochester , Minnesota (247 km northwest) and the Twin Cities , Minnesota (382 km in the same direction).
traffic
There are no national highways through Shellsburg. In the urban area and the surrounding area, there are only secondary country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
In the northwest-southeast direction runs a railway line of the regional freight transport company Iowa Northern Railway (IANR) through the urban area of Shellsburg.
The Vinton Veterans Memorial Airpark is 17 miles northwest of a small airfield. The nearest commercial airport is Eastern Iowa Airport at Cedar Rapids (34.8 km southeast).
| Population development | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1880 | 547 | - | |
| 1890 | 468 | -14.4% | |
| 1900 | 511 | 9.2% | |
| 1910 | 527 | 3.1% | |
| 1920 | 590 | 12% | |
| 1930 | 546 | -7.5% | |
| 1940 | 552 | 1.1% | |
| 1950 | 632 | 14.5% | |
| 1960 | 625 | -1.1% | |
| 1970 | 740 | 18.4% | |
| 1980 | 771 | 4.2% | |
| 1990 | 765 | -0.8% | |
| 2000 | 938 | 22.6% | |
| 2010 | 983 | 4.8% | |
| 1880-2000 2010 | |||
population
According to the 2010 census , Shellsburg had 983 people in 428 households. The population density was 494 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.24 people lived in each of the 428 households.
The racial the population was composed of 96.7 percent white, 0.7 percent African American, 1.0 percent Native American and 0.1 percent (one person) Asian; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 0.5 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.
20.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.3 percent were 65 years or older. 51.5 percent of the population were female.
The average annual income for a household was 39,844 USD . The per capita income was $ 27,063. 15.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Individual evidence
- ↑ City of Shellsburg - Mayor and City Council ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2014 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. Retrieved October 19, 2014
- ↑ a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved October 19, 2014
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on October 19, 2014
- ↑ AirNav.com - Iowa City Municipal Airport Accessed on October 19, 2014
- ^ State Data Center of Iowa. Retrieved October 19, 2014
