Tampico (Illinois)

Whiteside County

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Tampico is a place ( with a status of "Village" ) in Whiteside County in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, Tampico had 790 inhabitants.

In Tampico Main Street Historic District is the birthplace of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is.

Geography

Tampico is located at 41 ° 37'49 " north latitude and 89 ° 47'10 " west longitude and extending over a square kilometer. The town is the center of Tampico Township.

Tampico is located approximately 60 km east of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Iowa. Towns nearby are Prophetstown (17,8 km to the northwest ), Rock Falls (21,9 km northeast), Deer Grove ( 9.8 km östsüdöstlich ) and Leon Corners (15,1 km southwest).

The nearest large towns are Dubuque, Iowa (154 km north-west ), Rockford (119 km northeast), Chicago (199 km east), Peoria (118 km south-southeast ), the Quad Cities ( 78.2 km west-southwest ) and Cedar Rapids, Iowa (205 km west-northwest ).

Traffic

Through the center of Tampico runs in a north -south direction, the Illinois State Route 172 All other roads are subordinate, partly unpaved roadways or within city roads.

With the Whiteside County Airport is a small airfield located 20.4 km north east of Tampico. The nearest major airports are located 106 km north-east Chicago Rockford International Airport and 79 km south west Quad City International Airport.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Tampico 790 people in 294 households. The population density was 790 people per square kilometer. In the 294 households lived statistically 2.69 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.7 percent white, 0.4 percent Asian, and 1.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

28.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.9 percent were 65 years or older. 50.5 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was $ 38,021 annually. The per capita income was $ 17,437. 18.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.