Dubuque is a city on the Mississippi River in the US state of Iowa. Located on the east bank of the Mississippi River is East Dubuque, Illinois and the state border with Wisconsin.
By plane
Dubuque Regional Airport, 10965 Aviation Drive, Dubuque,
IA 52003. Tel: +1 563-589-4128. American Airlines has 2 daily flights to
and from Chicago.
By train
The tracks in the city are
currently only used for freight traffic.
By bus
Greyhound, 950
Elm Street, Dubuque, IA 52001. Tel: +1 563-583-3397.
In the
street
Four highways lead through the city. US Highway H20 comes from
the west of Sioux City and Waterloo, US Highway H52 comes from the north
of Minneapolis and Rochester in Minnesota and from the east of Illinois
respectively, US Highway H61 from the south of Davenport and the US
-Highway H151 from Madison, Wisconsin or from Cedar Rapids.
National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium, 350 East 3rd Street,
Dubuque, IA 52001. Tel: +1 563-557-9545, email: info@rivermuseum.com.
The museum displays exhibits from the time when the region was settled
and from shipping on the Mississippi. The aquarium to the wildlife of
the Mississippi. Various ships can be visited outside, including a
paddle wheel steamer. Open: March through Memorial Day, daily from 10:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Memorial Day through Labor Day, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
daily; Labor Day through October, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily; November to
February, Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Price: Adults
US$16, children US$11.
Dubuque Museum of Art, 701 Locust Street,
Dubuque, IA 52001. Tel: +1 563-557-1851, Email: info@dbqart.com . Art
museum. Open: Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and
Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Price: Adults US$ 6, children have free
admission.
Mathias Ham House, 2241 Lincoln Avenue, Dubuque, IA
52001. Tel: +1 563-589-4100. Within the grounds is a log cabin from 1833
and the Mathias Ham House from 1857. Inside the property there is some
Civil War-era furniture and some dating back to before the First World
War. Open: Memorial Day through Labor Day, Wednesday through Sunday,
11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Price: Adults US$5, children US$3.50.
Fenelon Place Elevator, 512 Fenelon Place, Dubuque, IA 52001. Tel: +1
563-582-6496. The cable car has been in use since 1893 and climbs around
60 meters over a distance of 90 meters. Open: From April to November
daily from 08:00 to 20:00. Price: One way adults US$1.50 and children
US$0.75.
The Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens (Dubuque Botanical Garden
and Arboretum) also known as the Dubuque Arboretum & Botanical Gardens
at Marshall Park, is a 21-hectare, (52 acres) arboretum and botanical
garden located in Dubuque, Iowa. The identification code of the Dubuque
Arboretum and Botanical Gardens as a member of "Botanic Gardens
Conservation International" (BGCI), as well as the acronyms of its
herbarium is DMP.
Field of Dreams, located in Dyersville, Dubuque County, Iowa, United
States, is a baseball stadium and pop culture tour built for the filming
of the 1989 film "Dreams Come True" of the same name sights. Starting in
2021, the Major League Baseball will build a new stadium next to this
stadium that meets professional baseball standards, and will hold a
regular game called "MLB Battle of Dreamland" to pay tribute to this
movie.
Five Flags Center, formerly the Orpheum Theater and the Majestic
Theatre, is an indoor arena in the American city of Dubuque in the state
of Iowa and has an audience capacity of between 2,500 and 5,200
spectators. The indoor arena was completed in 1910 and is owned by the
city and maintained by SMG. It has been the home arena for the Dubuque
Fighting Saints ice hockey team between 1980 and 2001. On November 14,
1972, it was placed on the US official National Register of Historic
Places.
Park Mines of Spain State Park in the United States. Mines of Spain
State Park is located in the county of Dubuque County and the state of
Iowa, in the eastern part of the country, 1,200 km west of the capital
city Washington, D.C. Mines of Spain State Park is located 229 meters
above sea level. The land around Mines of Spain State Park is flat. The
highest point in the area has a height of 312 meters and is 3.2 km
southwest of the Mines of Spain State Park. There are about 42 people
per square kilometer around the Mines of Spain State Park is relatively
sparsely populated. The nearest larger town is Dubuque, 4.2 km north of
Mines of Spain State Park. Mines of Spain State Park is almost covered
in fields. In the region around the Mines of Spain State Park, valleys
are remarkably common. The climate is continental. The average
temperature is 8 °C. The warmest month is June, at 23 °C, and the
coldest is January, at −8 °C. The average rainfall is 1,040 millimeters
per year. The wettest month is June, with 167 millimeters of rain, and
the driest is December, with 47 millimeters.
The city is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River on the
border of the three states of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin in what is
known locally as the Tri-State Area.
Immediate neighboring towns
are Key West (7 km south), Asbury (8.3 km west-northwest), Peosta (21 km
south-east) and Sageville (7.3 km north-west). The closest towns on the
opposite bank of the Mississippi are Fair Play, Wisconsin (10.9 km
northeast) and East Dubuque, Illinois (3.1 km southeast).
The
nearest major cities are the Quad Cities (115 km south), Iowa's capital,
Des Moines (330 km southwest), Rochester, Minnesota (275 km northwest),
Wisconsin's capital, Madison (149 km northeast), and Rockford, Illinois
(149 km east). .
Dubuque is Iowa's oldest city and played a key role in the early
settlement of the upper Midwest (Upper Midwest), which is why it is
still nicknamed "Key City".
The first non-Native American settler
to settle permanently on the site of what would later become Dubuque was
a fur trader named Julien Dubuque in 1785. Until then, the area was
predominantly Fox Indians. In the years that followed, Dubuque learned
of lead deposits in the area and began mining them until his death in
1810. In 1833 the area was designated for settlement by the US
government and in 1837 Dubuque was granted city rights under its current
name.
As a result, Dubuque attracted large numbers of immigrants,
primarily of Irish and German origin, from the East Coast of the United
States. Miners were the first to be permitted by the government to
occupy land west of the Mississippi River. For a while, the town's
inhabitants lived primarily from mining and the fur trade, but later the
economic spectrum in the town expanded to include lumbering, boat
building and meat processing.
On July 4, 1876, a catastrophic
flood, the so-called Rockwell flood, happened in Rockdale near Dubuque,
killing 42 people.
Despite an economic slump in the 1980s, with
high unemployment and exodus from the city, Dubuque developed into an
economic and social center in the Tri State Area.
In 1837 a Roman
Catholic diocese was established in Dubuque, which was raised to the
Archdiocese of Dubuque in 1883. Episcopal Church is the Cathedral of St.
Raphael. Since 1843, the religious order of the Sisters of Charity (BVM)
has been based in Dubuque, which, among other things, founded today's
Clarke University.
The oldest transport route is the Mississippi, on which an important
part of the flow of goods is still transported through the center of the
USA. The river is kept navigable for large barges by dams, of which Lock
and Dam No. 11 one is located on the waterfront of Eagle Point Park in
the Dubuque metropolitan area.
Running parallel to the
Mississippi through Dubuque is the U.S. Highway 52. In the city center
this meets the U.S. Highways 20 and 61 and the U.S. Highway 151. Highway
20 crosses the Julien Dubuque Bridge into Illinois, Highways 61 and 151
cross the Dubuque - Wisconsin Bridge into Wisconsin.
A train line
of the Canadian Pacific Railway runs through Dubuque on the west bank of
the Mississippi. In the center of the city, this crosses a route of the
Canadian National Railway, which crosses the single-track Dubuque Rail
Bridge coming from the west towards Illinois.
Eight miles south
of the city is Dubuque Regional Airport, which connects the city and
region to the domestic and international air network with connecting
flights to Chicago O'Hare.
Loras College (Catholic)
Clarke University (Catholic)
Northeast Iowa Community College
Wartburg Theological Seminary
As of the 2010 census, 57,637 people lived in Dubuque in 23,623
households. The population density was 840.2 people per square
kilometer.
The racial makeup of the population was 91.7 percent
White, 4.0 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 1.1
percent Asian and other races; 1.8 percent descended from two or more
ethnic groups. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.4 percent of the population
was of Hispanic or Latino descent.
Statistically, 2.24 people
lived in each of the 23,623 households.
21.4 percent of the
population was under 18 years old, 62.1 percent were between 18 and 64
and 16.5 percent were 65 years or older. 51.6 percent of the population
was female.
The median annual household income was $42,788. Per
capita income was $23,527. 11.7 percent of the residents lived below the
poverty line.
sons and daughters of the town
Kayla Banwarth (born 1989),
volleyball player and coach
Carol Barnett (born 1949), composer and
flautist
Lansing Hoskins Beach (1860–1945), Major General, United
States Army
Jay Berwanger (1914–2002), first Heisman Trophy winner
Richard Pike Bissell (1913–1977), writer
Rodney Leland Blum (born
1955), politician, Iowa representative in the US House of
Representatives
LeRoy E. Cain (born 1964), NASA engineer
Tom
Churchill (born 1961), television and radio meteorologist (ABC, NBC)
Carl DeMaio (born 1974), politician
Justin Albert Driscoll
(1920–1984), Bishop of Fargo
Abby Finkenauer (born 1988), politician,
Iowa MP in the US House of Representatives
Luke Flynn (born 1988),
composer
Thomas Gifford (1937–2000), writer
John Graas
(1924–1962), jazz horn player, arranger and composer
Fred Kaltenbach
(1895–1945), teacher and propagandist
Steve Klink (born 1977), jazz
pianist
Dan Koppen (born 1979), offensive lineman for the New England
Patriots
Margaret Lindsay (1910–1981), actress
Kate Mulgrew (born
1955), US television (Star Trek: Voyager) actress
Tucker Poolman
(born 1993), ice hockey player
David Rabe (born 1940), novelist,
playwright and screenwriter
Armin Rhomberg (1901–1985), Austrian
politician (ÖVP)
Kevin Rhomberg (born 1955), professional baseball
Alexander Rummler (1867–1959), painter
Norman Shetler (born 1931),
pianist, puppeteer and university teacher
Mark Steines (born 1964),
television journalist (Entertainment Tonight)
Jessie Taft
(1882–1960), sociologist and social worker
Tom Tauke (born 1950),
politician
Sara Taylor (b. 1974), former Deputy Assistant to the
President and Director of Political Affairs to George W. Bush
James
A. Westphal (1930–2004), astronomer, geologist and inventor
Joseph
Clement Willging (1884–1959), Bishop of Pueblo
Don Ameche (1908–1993), actor
Moritz Bräuninger (1836–1860),
missionary and martyr, Wartburg Theological Seminary
Tony Danza (born
1951), actor
Red Faber (1888–1976), major league baseball player,
Hall of Famer
George O'Leary (born 1946), football coach
John
Joseph Paul (1918–2006), Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse
Adam Rapp (born 1968), author
Raymond Roseliep (1917–1983), haiku
writer, Loras College
Edward Albee (1928–2016), writer The Lady from Dubuque ('The Lady
from Dubuque')
William B. Allison (1829–1908), politician, US Senator
Leo Binz (1900–1979), Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Dubuque
Alfred
von Görtz-Wrisberg (1814–1868), German officer and politician, 1848
revolutionary and émigré (forty-eighter)
Wilhelm Hoffbauer
(1812–1892), German physician and political émigré
David B. Henderson
(1840–1906), Member of the US House of Representatives
Mary Kenneth
Keller (1913–1985), Catholic nun who helped develop the BASIC
programming language and was most likely the first woman in the United
States to earn a PhD in computer science
Elmer Layden (1903–1973),
one of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame and later commissioner of the NFL
Paul Leo (1893–1958), German emigrant, professor of New Testament at
Wartburg Theological Seminary
Oran Pape (1904–1936), American
football player, police officer
Johnny Orr (1927–2013), basketball
coach at Iowa State University and University of Michigan, teacher at
Dubuque Senior High in the 1950s
Norman Shetler, born 1931, pianist
and song accompanist