Iowa City is a city and the county seat of Johnson
County in the US state of Iowa. The US The Census Bureau
recorded a population of 74,828 as of the 2020 census.
The University of Iowa is headquartered in Iowa City. Central to
the campus is the historic former Iowa State Capitol. A US Army
Reserve Center is also located here.
Iowa City is the
heart of the Iowa City metropolitan area.
The Stanley Museum of Art at the University of Iowa is a visual arts institution that is part of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, in the United States. It is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and its director is a member of the Association of Directors of Art Museums (North America). Since its inception, the museum has been an active participant in numerous educational programs and research projects at the University of Iowa College of Fine Arts and Art History, and for decades has sponsored the annual Master of Fine Arts (MFA) exhibition. - Master of Fine Arts), as well as other exhibitions by his teaching staff. Over the years, faculty from this and other Colleges and graduate students from the University have organized exhibitions at the Museum in connection with their research, courses, and seminars. The Stanley Museum of Art's educational mission is not only It encompasses the University of Iowa curriculum, but extends to the entire state.
Park Hickory Hill Park in the United States. Hickory Hill Park is located in the county of Johnson County and the state of Iowa, in the eastern part of the country, 1,300 km west of the capital city Washington, D.C. Hickory Hill Park is located 207 meters above sea level. The land around Hickory Hill Park is flat. The highest point in the area has a height of 242 meters and is 1.00 km northwest of Hickory Hill Park. There are about 16 people per square kilometer around Hickory Hill Park has a small population. The nearest larger town is Iowa City, 1.2 miles southwest of Hickory Hill Park. Hickory Hill Park is surrounded by fields. The climate is continental. The average temperature is 10 °C. The warmest month is June, at 22 °C, and the coldest is January, at −8 °C. The average rainfall is 1,097 millimeters per year. The wettest month is June, with 185 millimeters of rain, and the driest is January, with 42 millimeters.
Iowa City is located in eastern Iowa on both sides of the Iowa River,
a right tributary of the Mississippi that forms the Iowa-Illinois
border. The intersection of the three states of Iowa, Illinois and
Wisconsin is about 135 km northeast of Iowa City. About 5 km north of
the city, the Iowa River is dammed to form Coralville Lake.
The
urban area covers an area of 63.3 km².
Neighboring cities of Iowa
City are University Heights (entirely enclosed by the western
metropolitan area), Solon (18.6 km north), West Branch (18.4 km east),
West Liberty (28.3 km eastsoutheast), Hills (13.7 km south), Kalona (17
miles southwest), Coralville (on the northwest city limits), Tiffin
(15.8 km west-northwest), and North Liberty (15 km northwest).
The nearest major cities are Cedar Rapids (42.8 km NW), Wisconsin's
capital Madison (281 km NE), the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois (87.9
km E), Chicago in Illinois (356 km in the same direction), St. Louis in
Missouri (419 km SSE), Kansas City in Missouri (488 km SW), Iowa's
capital Des Moines (183 km W), Nebraska's largest city Omaha (406 km in
the same direction), Rochester in Minnesota (311 km north-northwest) and
the Twin Cities of Minnesota (446 km in the same direction).
The west-east Interstate Highway 80 runs through the north of the
metropolitan area of Iowa City. The also four-lane U.S. Highway 218 and
Iowa Highway 27, which runs congruently here, run in a north-south
direction through the west of the city. The US Highway 6 runs
northwest-southeast through downtown Iowa City, where it intersects with
Iowa Highway 1. All other roads are minor roads, some dirt roads, and
inner-city links.
In the metropolitan area of Iowa City, several
railroad lines for the freight traffic of different railroad companies
meet.
The Iowa City Municipal Airport is a small airfield in the
south of the city area. The nearest commercial airport is Cedar Rapids -
Eastern Iowa Airport (37.2 km NW).
The Benton Street Bridge, one
of the first steel bridges, was replaced in 1990.
Iowa City was planned as the new territory capital by a resolution of
the Iowa Territory legislature in 1839. The territorial administration
moved from Burlington to Iowa City in 1841. Five years later, Iowa City
also became the capital of the newly formed state of Iowa before moving
to Des Moines in 1857.
The city was included in the UNESCO
Creative Cities Network as a City of Literature in 2008.
As of the 2010 census, Iowa City was home to 67,862 people in 27,657
households. The population density was 1084.1 people per square
kilometer. Statistically, 2.22 people lived in each of the 27,657
households.
The racial makeup of the population was 82.5 percent
White, 5.8 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 6.9
percent Asian and 2.1 percent from other races; 2.5 percent descended
from two or more ethnic groups. Regardless of ethnicity, 5.3 percent of
the population was Hispanic or Latino.
14.9 percent of the
population was under 18 years old, 76.9 percent were between 18 and 64
and 8.2 percent were 65 years or older. 50.3 percent of the population
were female.
The median annual household income was $42,220. Per
capita income was $25,154. 27.9 percent of the residents lived below the
poverty line.
Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862–1957), biologist, zoologist,
malacologist and carciologist
Mignon Talbot (1869–1950),
paleontologist and geologist
Alfred Marshall Bailey (1894–1978),
ornithologist
Gladys Elizabeth Baker (1908–2007), mycologist and
college professor
John Y McCollister (1921–2013), politician
Lawrence Donald Soens (1926–2021), Roman Catholic minister, Bishop of
Sioux City
Allan Rex Sandage (1926–2010), astronomer
Howard C.
Berg (1934–2021), biophysicist
Sidney G. Winter (born 1935),
economist
Gail Jefferson (1938–2008), linguist
Larry Dowd
(1940–2006), rockabilly musician
Diane E. Griffin (born 1940),
microbiologist and virologist
Phyllis Somerville (1943–2020), actress
Mark Noll (born 1946), evangelical church historian and author
Bob
Barr (born 1948), lawyer and politician
Jay Hilgenberg, (born 1959),
American football player
Phil Morris (born 1959), actor
Norm
Breyfogle (1960–2018), comic artist
Corine Mauch (born 1960), Mayor
of Zurich
Joel Hilgenberg (born 1962), American football player
Nancy Hogshead (born 1962), swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
William
von Hippel (born 1963), American-Australian social psychologist
Hill
Harper (born 1966), actor
Michael Schnack (* 1967), conductor,
composer and university lecturer
Laura Leighton (born 1968), actress
Luke Bodensteiner (born 1970), cross-country skier
Jim Butler (born
1971), table tennis player
Chelsea Cain (born 1972), writer and
journalist
N.K. Jemisin (born 1972), fantasy writer
Joey Woody
(born 1973), track and field athlete
Tim Dwight (born 1975), football
player
Christian Ahrens (born 1976), rower
Zach Johnson (born
1976), professional golfer
Andrew Bentler (born 1978), film editor,
film director, film producer and screenwriter
Sharel Cassity (born
1978), jazz musician
Michael Mosley (born 1978), actor
Nate
Kaeding (born 1982), football player
Nate Ruess (born 1982), singer
Ashley Tesoro (born 1983), actress
Ashlie Kego (born 1989),
Nigerian-American artist
Michael Wacha (born 1991), baseball player