Sumner, Iowa

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Sumner
Bremer County Iowa Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Sumner Highlighted.svg
Location in Iowa
Basic data
Foundation : 1869 (settled)
1894 (incorporated)
State : United States
State : Iowa
Counties : Bremer County
Fayette County
Coordinates : 42 ° 51 ′  N , 92 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 51 ′  N , 92 ° 6 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 2,028 (as of 2010)
Population density : 309.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 6.55 km 2  (approx. 3 mi 2 )
Height : 323 m
Postal code : 50674
Area code : +1 563
FIPS : 19-76260
GNIS ID : 462083
Website : www.mysumneriowa.com
Mayor : Gary Walke

Sumner is a small town (with the status " City ") in Bremer County and a small part in Fayette County in the US -amerikanischen State Iowa . In 2010 Sumner had 2028 inhabitants.

geography

Sumner is located in the central northeast of Iowa on the Little Wapsipinicon River , which belongs to the Mississippi River basin via the Wapsipinicon River . This forms the border of Iowa to Wisconsin and Illinois around 90 km east .

The geographical coordinates of Sumner are 42 ° 50'51 "north latitude and 92 ° 05'30" west longitude. The city extends over an area of ​​6.55 km².

Neighboring towns to Sumner are Hawkeye (13.6 miles northeast), Randalia ( 11.4 miles east), Westgate (10.1 miles southeast), Readlyn ( 16.3 miles southwest), Tripoli (11.2 miles west southwest), Frederika (21.2 km west-northwest) and Fredericksburg (21.9 km northwest).

The nearest major cities are La Crosse in Wisconsin (158 km northeast), Wisconsin's capital Madison (266 km east), Dubuque at the interface of the states of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois (149 km east-southeast), the Quad Cities in Iowa and Illinois (242 km southeast), Cedar Rapids (115 km southeast), Waterloo (60.1 km southwest), Iowa's capital Des Moines (150 miles in the same direction), and Rochester , Minnesota (159 km northwest).

traffic

The Iowa State Highway 93 runs in a west-east direction as the main road through Sumner. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

The nearest airport is Waterloo Regional Airport , 59.9 km southwest , from where there are feeder flights from several airlines to the major airports in Chicago O'Hare and Minneapolis-Saint Paul .

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1880 285 -
1890 861 202.1%
1900 1437 66.9%
1910 1404 -2.3%
1920 1511 7.6%
1930 1561 3.3%
1940 1752 12.2%
1950 1911 9.1%
1960 2170 13.6%
1970 2174 0.2%
1980 2335 7.4%
1990 2078 -11%
2000 2106 1.3%
2010 2028 -3.7%
1880-2000 2010

population

According to the 2010 census , there were 2,028 people in 869 households in Sumner. The population density was 309.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.24 people lived in each of the 869 households.

The racial the population was composed of 98.5 percent white, 0.1 percent Asian and 0.1 percent (two people) from other ethnic groups; 0.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.7 percent of the population.

22.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 52.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 25.4 percent were 65 years or older. 54.2 percent of the population were female.

The average annual income for a household was 47,768  USD . The per capita income was $ 25,419. 8.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. City of Sumner - Administration.Retrieved October 27, 2014
  2. a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved October 27, 2014
  3. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed October 27, 2014
  4. ^ Iowa Data Center. Retrieved October 27, 2014

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