Kirksville (Missouri)
Adair County
29-39026
Kirksville is a city and county seat of Adair County in the north of the U.S. state of Missouri. In the census in 2010 had 17,505 inhabitants Kirksville.
In Kirksville State Truman State University and the private A. T. Still University are located.
Geography
Kirksville is located at 40 ° 11'37 " north latitude and 92 ° 34'58 " west longitude and extends over 27.2 km ², which consist almost exclusively of land area. Kirksville is located a few kilometers west of the Chariton River, a tributary of the Missouri.
Neighboring towns are Novinger (14,7 km west- north-west ), Greentop (17,8 km to the north ), Sperry (17,3 km northeast), Clay (14 km north-northeast ), Millard (11.1 km to the south ), Yarrow (19,8 km southwest) and Youngstown (16,3 km west ).
The nearest large towns are Quincy, Illinois (119 km east- north-east ), St. Louis (329 km south-east ), Missouri's capital Jefferson City (196 km south-southeast ), Kansas City (290 km south-east ), Omaha, Nebraska ( 409 km to the northwest ), Des Moines, Iowa (241 km north-northwest ) and the Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois (315 km northeast).
Traffic
In north -south U.S. Highway 63 runs as a ring road around the center of Kirksville. In the town center, the Missouri State Routes 6 and 11 cross
About 13 km south of the city near the town of Millard located Kirksville Regional Airport Kirksville connection has to the national air traffic network.
In approximately 22 km south- south-west to La Plata is located on an entertaining of the BNSF Railway track a Amtrak station, where the express train Southwest Chief stops.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Kirksville 17,505 people in 6,512 households. The population density was 645.9 inhabitants per square kilometer.
The racial the population was composed of 92.3 percent white, 2.2 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 2.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
In the 6,512 households lived statistically 2.22 per person.
16.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 72.4 percent were between 18 and 64, and 11.2 percent were 65 years or older. 53.9 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 26,865. The per capita income was $ 15,209. 31.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Samuel W. Arnold (1879-1961) - Member of the U.S. - House of Representatives (1943-1849) - lived most of his life in Kirksville
- Gordon Bell (b. 1934) - computer engineer and manager - who was born in Kirksville
- Anthony Cistaro (born 1963) - actor - born in Kirksville
- Charles F. Cochran (1846-1906) - Member of the U.S. - House of Representatives (1897-1905) - born in Kirksville
- Rusty Draper (1923-2003) - Country musician - born in Kirksville
- Geraldine Page (1924-1987) - actress, Oscar winner - born in Kirksville
- Andrew Taylor Still - founder of the members of the Alternative Medicine Osteopathy - born in Kirksville
- Rhonda Vincent (b. 1962) - Bluegrass musician - born in Kirksville