Washington (Iowa)

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Washington
Downtown Washington
Downtown Washington
Location in Iowa
Washington County Iowa Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Washington Highlighted.svg
Basic data
Foundation : 1839
State : United States
State : Iowa
County : Washington County
Coordinates : 41 ° 18 ′  N , 91 ° 42 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 18 ′  N , 91 ° 42 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
-  Metropolitan Area :		 7,266 (as of 2010)
161,170 (as of 2013)
Population density : 570.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 12.74 km 2  (approx. 5 mi 2 )
Height : 231 m
Postcodes : 52353
Area code : +1 319
FIPS : 19-82335
GNIS ID : 462686
Website : www.washingtoniowa.net
Mayor : Sandra Johnson
Blair House (Washington, Iowa) .jpg
The Blair House in Washington, which serves as City Hall; Listed in the NRHP since 1973

Washington is a city and county seat of Washington County in the US -amerikanischen State Iowa . In 2010 Washington had 7,266 inhabitants, which increased to 7,370 by 2013.

Washington is part of the metropolitan area around Iowa's former capital, Iowa City .

geography

Washington is located in southeast Iowa on the western headwaters of Crooked Creek , which is part of the Mississippi River basin over the Skunk River . This forms the border between Iowa and Illinois , around 55 km east . The Missouri border runs 100 km south.

The geographical data of Washington are 41 ° 17'57 "north latitude and 91 ° 41'35" west longitude. The city extends over an area of ​​12.74 km² and is the largest town within the Washington Township .

Neighboring towns to Washington are Kalona (14 miles north), Riverside (17 miles northeast), Ainsworth (12.3 miles east), Crawfordsville (13.3 miles southeast), Wayland (11.3 miles south), Brighton (12 miles southwest) and West Chester (9 miles west northwest).

The center of Iowa City is situated 51 km north-northeast of Washington. The other closest major cities are Cedar Rapids (90.1 km north), the Quad Cities in Iowa and Illinois (115 km north-northeast), Chicago in Illinois (397 km in the same direction), Peoria in Illinois (252 km east-southeast), Illinois' capital Springfield (307 km southeast), St. Louis (391 km southeast), Kansas City in Missouri (437 km southwest), Des Moines (181 km west), Nebraska's largest city Omaha (402 km in the same direction), Rochester , Minnesota (357 km northwest) and the Twin Cities ( Minneapolis and Saint Paul ), Minnesota (491 km in the same direction).

traffic

Railway bridge of the SOO Line Railroad, listed in the NRHP since 1998

US Highway 218 , which runs in a north-south direction, passes Washington approximately 14 km east. Iowa State Highways  1 and 92 meet in the Washington metropolitan area . All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

In a west-east direction runs a railroad line for the freight traffic of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) belonging SOO Line Railroad through the metropolitan area of ​​Washington.

The Washington Municipal Airport is 4.7 km southeast of the city center, a small airfield. The nearest commercial airports are Eastern Iowa Airport (83.3 km north), Quad City International Airport at Moline in Illinois (121 km east-northeast), Southeast Iowa Regional Airport at Burlington (99.8 km southeast) and Des Moines International Airport (183 km west).

history

Washington was founded in 1839. On the occasion of its centenary, a fountain was inaugurated, which was overhauled in 1995.

Founded in 1897, the State Theater is the oldest continuously operating cinema in the world.

In Washington, the first county hospital (dt. About: county hospital) west of the Mississippi River. It was founded in 1912 as Washington County Hospital and has been called Washington County Hospitals & Clinics (WCHC) since 1998 . In 2006, despite many objections, the originally three-story building was demolished in order to build a new hospital.

population

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1870 2575 -
1880 2949 14.5%
1890 3235 9.7%
1900 4255 31.5%
1910 4380 2.9%
1920 4697 7.2%
1930 4814 2.5%
1940 5227 8.6%
1950 5902 12.9%
1960 6037 2.3%
1970 6317 4.6%
1980 6584 4.2%
1990 7074 7.4%
2000 7047 -0.4%
2010 7266 3.1%
2013 estimate 7370 1.4%
1870-2000 2010-2013

According to the 2010 census , Washington had 7,266 people in 3,048 households. The population density was 570.3 people per square kilometer. In the 3048 households there were statistically 2.31 people each.

The racial the population was composed of 92.5 percent white, 1.4 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian, 0.2 percent Polynesian and 2.7 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 10.7 percent of the population regardless of ethnicity.

23.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 55.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 21.1 percent were 65 years or older. 51.9 percent of the population were female.

The average annual income for a household was 47,790  USD . The per capita income was $ 26,398. 11.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Known residents

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US Postal Service - ZIP Codes
  2. ↑ Mayor Retrieved February 6, 2015
  3. ↑ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 73000741. Retrieved February 6, 2015
  4. ↑ a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved February 6, 2015
  5. ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on February 6, 2015
  6. ↑ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 98000469 Retrieved February 6, 2015
  7. ↑ AirNav.com - Washington Municipal Airport Retrieved on February 6, 2015
  8. ↑ Oldest continuously operating cinema theater. In: guinnessworldrecords.com . April 26, 2016, Retrieved December 26, 2019.
  9. ↑ WCBC History ( Memento from August 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ State Data Center of Iowa (PDF; 86 KB) Retrieved February 6, 2015

Web links

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