Williams (Iowa)

Hamilton County

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Williams is a city in Hamilton County in the U.S. state of Iowa. In 2000, Williams had 427 inhabitants.

Geography

Williams is located in northern Iowa. The next towns are Ames and Waterloo. Williams is located about 95 kilometers north of Des Moines and about 166 kilometers northwest of Cedar Rapids.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.3 km ², consisting only of the country.

History

On July 15, 1859 William H. Merritt founded on private land, a city named Mettamora. He put on 121 plots, of which, whilst some sold to investors in the eastern United States, otherwise raised the new town on the prairie little interest. The chief planner for the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad finally went to Williams in order to obtain permission to carry the railway line across the country Merrit. Finally, Blair laid out a town about three kilometers north of Mettamora, which he named after Major William Williams of Fort Dodge. The first post office in the new settlement was opened on October 13, 1869, before Williams was officially registered and the first postmaster - a man named Isaac Brown - was also the first railway employees. On October 22, 1883 Williams was incorporated as a Town, BF Corbin was elected the first mayor of the city. On the legality of the constitutive instrument, there were doubts and the incorporation in 1884 initially revoked.

The first school was taken in 1870 in operation and was about 1 kilometer from Williams removed. Compared to the Harrison Hotel, a new school was built in 1875. She had only one room, how many schools in Hamilton County. It was in 1881 replaced by a new building and lack of space prevents a larger school building was erected in 1893 in the east of the city. This was used until 1918. Then built a high school in the southern part of Williams. Which in 1957 was expanded to include a sports hall and an auditorium. In the 1960s, the schools of Blair Castle, Kamrar and Williams were reorganized and school operation was moved to Blair Castle.

Traffic

Williams was at the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad, which eventually merged into the Illinois Central Railroad. At the beginning of the 1920s was on the south side of the community with government funds a highway built. The so-called Grant Highway was later renamed Hawkeye Highway and finally to a section of U.S. Highway 20, which leads east to Alden. Finally, the highway was widened to four lanes and the old route was designated as Iowa State Route 928. Tue urban roads in north-south direction are named after trees, the three east - west axes are numbered consecutively.

Demography

At the time of the census of 2000, Williams lived 427 people. The population density was 187.3 people per km ². There were 193 housing units at an average 84.7 per km ². The population consisted of Williams 98.36 % White, 1.64 % reported from other races, and 2.58 % of the population to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The residents of Williams' were distributed to 185 households out of which 25.4% were living in children under 18 years. 55.7 % married couples living together, 8.1 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.0 % were non-families. 31.4% of households were made ​​up of individuals and someone lived in 18.4 % of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the average family size is 2.85 people.

The population was spread out with 24.8 % under the, 6.8 % 18 -24- year-old, 27.4 % 25 -44- year-old, 20.6% 45-64 year olds and 20.4 % under the age of 65 years or more. The average age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 100.5 males. In the over -18s accounted for 100 women 92.2 males.

The median household income in William was 36,250 U.S. dollars and the median family income reached the level of 41 094 U.S. dollars. The average income of men was 27 667 U.S. dollars, compared to 22,188 U.S. dollars for women. The per capita income amounted to $ 16,000. 2.2% of the population and 0% of the affected families had an income below the poverty line, including 0 % of minors and 7.8 % of those age 65 or over.

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