Sioux City is a city and county seat of Woodbury County in the
US state of Iowa. A small portion of the city's area extends
into neighboring Plymouth County. In 2020, Sioux City had a
population of 85,797. This makes Sioux City the fourth largest
city in the state.
The KCAU television transmission mast
erected here was one of the tallest buildings on earth in 2009
with its 609.6 m.
Sioux City is at the center of the
Sioux City Metropolitan Area, which stretches from Iowa to
neighboring states of South Dakota and Nebraska.
Gateway Arena is an indoor arena inside the Tyson Events Center complex in the American city of Sioux City in the state of Iowa. It has an audience capacity of between 6,731 and 10,000 spectators depending on the arrangement. The indoor arena began construction on April 30, 2002 and opened on December 17, 2003. Gateway is primarily used by the Sioux City Musketeers ice hockey team of the United States Hockey League (USHL).
Sioux City is located in western Iowa at the mouth of the Big Sioux
River and Missouri. The Big Sioux River forms the border between Iowa
and South Dakota and the Missouri forms the border with Nebraska. The
Floyd River also flows into the Missouri in Sioux City. In Sioux City,
navigability of the Missouri begins.
The geographic coordinates
of Sioux City are 42°29′53″ north latitude and 96°23′44″ west longitude.
The urban area covers an area of 151.5 km², which is divided into 148.54
km² of land and 2.96 km² of water. The city does not belong to any
township.
Neighboring towns of Sioux City are Hinton (17.9 km
northeast), Lawton (19.8 km east), Bronson (20.9 km southeast), Sergeant
Bluff (on the southern outskirts of town), South Sioux City (on the
opposite bank of the Missouri in Nebraska) , Dakota City (10.7 km
south), Dakota Dunes in South Dakota and North Sioux City in South
Dakota (on the western city limits), and Jefferson in South Dakota (22.6
km northwest).
The nearest major cities are the Minnesota Twin
Cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul) (435 km NE), Rochester, Minnesota
(437 km ENE), Cedar Rapids (425 km E), Iowa's capital Des Moines (305 km
ESE), Nebraska largest city Omaha (162 km SSE), Kansas City in Missouri
(448 km in the same direction), Nebraska's capital Lincoln (205 km S)
and South Dakota's largest city Sioux Falls (140 km NNW).
Interstate Highway 29, which runs along the Missouri River, runs
through the center of Sioux City and forms the shortest connection from
Kansas City to the Canadian border. I 129 crosses a bridge over the
Missouri River and forms the western arterial road from Sioux City. In
the metropolitan area, the U.S. Highways 20, 75 and 77 and Iowa State
Highway 12 on top of each other. All other roads are secondary country
roads, partly unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
Sioux City is a railroad hub where several BNSF Railway, Union Pacific
Railroad (UP) and Canadian National Railway (CN) lines converge. A
railroad bridge also crosses the Missouri, the Sioux City Bridge, which
dates back to one of the first bridges over the river in 1888.
The Sioux Gateway Airport in the south of the metropolitan area is
Iowa's fourth busiest commercial airport by passenger volume. The city
and the airport also gained a certain notoriety in Europe as the scene
of the film Disaster Flight 232, which is based on United Airlines
Flight 232.
As of the 2010 census, Sioux City was home to 82,684 people in 31,571
households. The population density was 556.6 people per square
kilometer. Statistically, 2.54 people lived in each of the 31,571
households.
The racial makeup of the population was 80.6 percent
White, 2.9 percent African American, 2.6 percent Native American, 2.7
percent Asian, 0.1 percent Polynesian, and 7.4 percent from other races;
3.7 percent descended from two or more ethnic groups. Regardless of
ethnicity, 16.4 percent of the population was Hispanic or Hispanic.
26.6 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 61.0 percent
were between 18 and 64, and 12.4 percent were 65 years of age or older.
50.8 percent of the population were female.
The median annual
household income was $43,449. Per capita income was $22,143. 16.9
percent of the residents lived below the poverty line.
On July 19, 1989, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 on United Airlines Flight 232 crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux Gateway Airport. It broke and burst into flames. The reason for this was a complete loss of pressure in the hydraulic systems due to a broken low-pressure compression component in the rear engine. 111 of the 285 people on board died.
William Edwards Deming (1900–1993), pioneer in quality management
Morgan Taylor (1903–1975), track and field athlete
Peggy Gilbert
(1905–2007), jazz musician
Winifred Asprey (1917–2007), mathematician
and computer scientist
Pauline Phillips (1918–2013), newspaper
columnist
Constance Moore (1921–2005), film actress, singer
John
Melcher (1924–2018), Democratic Party politician
Alan J. Heeger (born
1936), Nobel laureate
Jerry Lacy (born 1936), actor
Tommy Bolin
(1951–1976), rock guitarist
David Loebsack (born 1952), politician
Lawrence Zoernig (1960–2017), cellist and composer
Dan Goldie (born
1963), tennis player
Ryan Kisor (born 1973), jazz trumpeter
Kirk
Hinrich (born 1981), basketball player
Ben Jacobson (born 1983),
basketball player