South Bend, Indiana
South Bend | |
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Tippecanoe Place (2007) |
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Location in Indiana | |
Basic data | |
Foundation : | 1865 |
State : | United States |
State : | Indiana |
County : | St. Joseph County |
Coordinates : | 41 ° 41 ′ N , 86 ° 15 ′ W |
Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) |
Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
101,735 (as of 2016) 320,740 (as of 2016) |
Population density : | 1,015.3 inhabitants per km 2 |
Area : | 101.3 km 2 (approx. 39 mi 2 ) of which 100.2 km 2 (approx. 39 mi 2 ) is land |
Height : | 211 m |
Postcodes : | 46600-46699 |
Area code : | +1 574 |
FIPS : | 18-71000 |
GNIS ID : | 0452796 |
Website : | www.southbendin.gov |
Mayor : | James Mueller |
South Bend, Indiana |
South Bend is a city of 101,168 people (2010 census) in St. Joseph County , Indiana, United States . The city is home to the county seat of St. Joseph County.
geography
The city has a total area of 101.3 km², of which 1.1% consists of water.
It is located on the southern river bend of the St. Joseph River .
population
year | Residents |
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1980 | 109,727 |
1990 | 105,511 |
2000 | 107,789 |
2010 | 101.168 |
The population statistics show a total of 107,789 inhabitants for 2000, 42,908 households and 25,959 families. The population density is 1,076 inhabitants per km².
57.60% of the population are white, 24.61% African American, 8.45% Latinos, and 9.34% of other or multiple races. A large part of the population comes from ancestors from Germany and Poland who immigrated at the end of the 19th century .
27.3% of the population is under 18 years old, 10.4% is 18–24 years old, 29.3% is 25–44 years old, 18.2% is 45–64 years old, and 14.8% is 65 years and older. The average age of the population is 33 years.
history
South Bend was originally laid out in 1831 as the seat of the county government. At that time about 130 people lived in this area, mainly fur traders, traders and innkeepers.
On October 4, 1851, the first steam locomotive reached South Bend and neighboring Mishawaka . In 1882, the South Bend Street Railway Company made the world's first attempt at an electric tram, which from the fall of 1882 connected the two neighboring cities of Mishawaka and South Bend.
These traffic connections and industrial developments meant that the Studebaker brothers set up business in South Bend and later founded the Studebaker vehicle operations here . Their influence on the history of South Bend was significant, so the 1963 factories shutdown caused serious economic difficulties for the city.
A relatively large number of emigrants who settled in the city between the First and Second World War came from the Croatian Minihof in Austria , where the street "Sotbend" was named after South Bend.
One structure in South Bend has the status of a National Historic Landmark , Tippecanoe Place . 73 buildings and sites in the city are registered in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of February 5, 2020).
education
South Bend is home to the University of Notre Dame and various other small colleges, including Indiana University South Bend , a branch of Indiana University .
traffic
The South Bend Airport is located 5 kilometers from the city center. Directly at the airport is the terminus of the South Shore Line of the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District , which guarantees a connection to Chicago , but has no further stop in South Bend. The city also has about a train station, from the Amtrak trains on Lake Shore Limited (Chicago to New York and Boston ) and Capitol Limited (Chicago to Washington, DC is served).
Interstate 80 , Interstate 90 and US Highway 31 run past the city .
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- John Franklin Miller (1831–1886), lawyer and politician; General of the Union Army in the Civil War
- John Franklin Miller (1862–1936), politician
- Frederick Collins (1869–1952), inventor and author
- Lambert Hillyer (1893–1969), film director and screenwriter
- Charles Butterworth (1896–1946), film actor and Broadway performer
- Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982), poet, essayist and literary critic
- William Cottrell (1906–1995), screenwriter and assistant director
- Dale Messick (1906-2005), comic book artist
- George Rickey (1907-2002), sculptor
- Clarence Long (1908-1994), politician
- Mike Salay (1909–1973), racing car driver
- Maclyn McCarty (1911-2005), biologist
- Jack Nethercutt (1913–2004), entrepreneur and racing car driver
- George Seaton (1911–1979), screenwriter, film director and producer
- John Bromfield (1922-2005), actor
- Dolores Fuller (1923–2011), film actress and songwriter
- John Howard Yoder (1927–1997), Mennonite theologian who taught at the Catholic University
- Tom Donahue (1928–1975), pioneer of rock 'n' roll on radio as a disc jockey, producer and concert promoter
- Jack Coker (1929–2016), jazz pianist and university professor
- Jerry Coker (* 1932), jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, university professor and author
- Sneaky Pete Kleinow (1934-2007), country musician
- Chad Everett (1937–2012), actor
- Jeremy M. Boorda (1939-1996), Admiral
- R. James Milgram (born 1939), mathematician
- Jeremy Leven (* 1941), screenwriter, director, producer and writer
- William L. Rathje (1945–2012), archaeologist
- Michael August Blume (* 1946), Roman Catholic clergyman and diplomat of the Holy See
- Eric Wieschaus (* 1947), molecular biologist and developmental biologist
- Debra Elmegreen (* 1952), astronomer
- Isiah Whitlock Jr. (born 1954), actor
- Timothy J. Roemer (* 1956), diplomat and politician
- Janice Elaine Voss (1956–2012), astronaut
- Tom Emmer (* 1961), politician
- Dean Norris (born 1963), actor
- Vivica A. Fox (born 1964), actress
- Michael Alig (* 1966), party organizer in the Manhattan club scene
- William Wack (* 1967), Roman Catholic religious, Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee
- Susan Choi (* 1969), writer
- Ryan Newman (born 1977), NASCAR racing driver
- Pete Buttigieg (* 1982), politician and mayor of South Bend
- Leroy Dixon (born 1983), track and field athlete
- Anthony Barr (born 1992), American football player
Personalities related to the city
- Ivan Meštrović (1883–1962), Croatian sculptor and architect; Professor of Sculpture at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend
- Stan Coveleski (1889-1984), baseball player
- Charles van Acker (1912–1998), racing car driver
- Moose Krause (1913–1992), college athlete, baseball, basketball, and football player
Music bands
- The surf rock band The Rivieras was formed in South Bend in the early 1960s.
Climate table
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Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for South Bend, Indiana
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1980–2010: Census Results
- ↑ List of NHL by State: Indiana . National Park Service , accessed February 5, 2020.
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↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed February 5, 2020.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed February 5, 2020.