West Burlington, Iowa

Des Moines County

1905794658

West Burlington is a city in the state of Iowa in the United States. It lies on the plane on the west bank of the Mississippi River on the northwestern outskirts of Burlington.

Although there was already a small settlement called Leffleers station on the site of the present church West Burlington, valid until 1882 as the actual date of establishment. At this time, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, which operate one of its major stations in Burlington, had built on an area of 1000 acres, which it had acquired from the city of Burlington, a premises, built on the cars and locomotives were repaired. To avoid administrative disagreements with the city, the railway company declared the area an independent City. While in the initial period up to 1600 people were employed on the premises, the number of employees after the introduction of the diesel operation has been drastically reduced. Mid-1960s was the work of only employer for 500 employees.

The economic orientation of the community is today, after the widespread decline of the originally primarily active imaging waggon or shipbuildings - work, focused largely rural medium. The diversity of resident companies is high; particularly common to find production of bio- ethanol from agricultural waste in the municipality.

West Burlington is connected via U.S. Highway 34, which runs through the territory of the City, and on the north -south U.S. Highway 61, which runs to the east of the municipality to the expressway network of the United States. At the regional air transport, it is also by the Burlington Airport, the southeast is about five km as the crow within the city limits of Burlington, tethered.

The municipality has not only the usual primary schools on a high school, the West Burlington Arnold Jr. / Sr. High School, and the South Eastern Iowa Community College, founded in 1920, offering technically oriented degree programs in the first place.