Cedar Falls (Iowa)
Black Hawk County
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Cedar Falls is a city ( with a status of "City" ) in Black Hawk County in the central north east of the U.S. state of Iowa. In the census in 2010 Cedar Falls had 39 260 inhabitants.
Cedar Falls Waterloo is next to one of the two core cities in the Waterloo - Cedar Falls metropolitan area.
Geography
Cedar Falls is located on both sides of the Cedar River, the largest tributary of the Iowa River, a right tributary of the Mississippi. The city is located at 42 ° 31'40 " north latitude and 92 ° 26'44 " west longitude and extends over 74.8 km ², spread to 73.3 km ² land and 1.5 km ² water surface.
Neighboring places are Waterloo (11,5 km downstream to the southeast ), Hudson ( 16.2 km to the south), Dike (20,1 km southwest), New Hartford ( 16.9 km west-northwest ) and North Cedar (2.7 km to the north ).
The nearest major cities are next to Waterloo Rochester in Minnesota (187 km north), Dubuque at the intersection of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois (159 km east), Cedar Rapids (99.9 km to the southeast ) and Iowa's capital Des Moines (182 km southwest ).
Traffic
Due to the northern parts of the city of Cedar Falls leads the freeway developed U.S. Highway 218, which runs parallel to the Cedar River. In the center of the city, he encounters the Ioway Highways 27, 57, 58 and 934 the southern outskirts of the forms developed for Freeway U.S. Highway 20
In Cedar Falls crossing several railway lines of the Iowa Northern Railway and the Canadian National Railway.
The nearest airport is Waterloo Regional Airport, is manufactured from where feeder flights by several airlines connecting to the major airports O'Hare and Minneapolis -Saint Paul.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Cedar Falls 39 260 people in 13,978 households. The population density was 535.6 inhabitants per square kilometer.
The racial the population was composed of 93.4 percent white, 2.1 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 2.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
In the 13,978 households lived statistically 2.41 per person.
17.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 70.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.9 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 47,339. The per capita income was $ 23,730. 21 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Marc Andreessen (born 1971 ) - co-founder of Netscape Communications - born in Cedar Falls
- Bill Stewart ( b. 1966 ) - Jazz Musicians - studied in Cedar Falls
- Roger Jepsen (* 1928) - U.S. Senator from Iowa ( 1979-1985 ) - born in Cedar Falls
- Brad Penrith ( b. 1965 ) - former Vice World Champion in wrestling - studied in Cedar Falls
- Tolly Thompson ( b. 1973 ) - Former World Cup bronze medalist in wrestling - born in Cedar Falls
- Gerald Guralnik (* 1936) - physicist - was born in Cedar Falls
- John Little ( born 1984 ) - Basketball Player - studied in Cedar Falls
- David R. Nagle ( b. 1943 ) - member of the U.S. House of Representatives ( 1987-1993 ) - studied and worked for several years in Cedar Falls
- C. William Ramseyer (1875-1943) - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1915-1933) - studied in Cedar Falls
- Fred C. Gilchrist (1868-1950) - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1931-1945) - went to school and studied in Cedar Falls
- Gil Gutknecht (* 1951) - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives ( 1995-2007 ) - born in Cedar Falls
- Nancy Jo Powell ( b. 1947 ) - diplomat - who was born in Cedar Falls