Arnolds Park, Iowa Arnolds Park, Iowa Location of Arnolds Park, Iowa Location of Arnolds Park, Iowa Website City of Arnolds Park Arnolds Park is a town/city in Dickinson County, Iowa, United States.
3.1 Arnolds Park Amusement Park Arnolds Park is positioned at 43 21 56 N 95 7 47 W (43.365636, -95.129805). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.57 square miles (4.07 km2), all of it land. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 99.1% White, 0.2% African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.1% from other competitions, and 0.5% from two or more competitions.
There were 590 homeholds of which 11.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 49.3% were married couples living together, 4.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 2.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 43.4% were non-families.
10.1% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 5.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 17% were from 25 to 44; 35.4% were from 45 to 64; and 32.1% were 65 years of age or older.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 97.50% White, 0.26% African American, 0.77% Native American, 0.09% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 0.09% from other competitions, and 1.20% from two or more competitions.
There were 580 homeholds out of which 17.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 52.1% were married couples living together, 5.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 39.8% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 15.5% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 23.0% from 25 to 44, 31.6% from 45 to 64, and 23.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $35,441, and the median income for a family was $43,594.
About 3.9% of families and 5.4% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 3.8% of those under age 18 and 5.0% of those age 65 or over.
Arnolds Park Amusement Park Arnold's Park on West Okobji Lake (1883) Arnolds Park is in the center of the Iowa Great Lakes resort region.
It is home to a historic amusement park, also called Arnolds Park, which features Legend, An ACE Coaster Landmark. Legend, which carried its first riders in 1927, is believed to be the 13th earliest wooden roller coaster in the U.S.
Other primary landmarks of the town/city include the Central Emporium shopping mall and the Iowa Great Lakes Maritime Museum and the Iowa Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
The old Roof Garden Ballroom in Arnolds Park, on West Lake Okoboji, for example, once thriving the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, the Guess Who and even nation music legend, Johnny Cash, as stated to The Daily Globe, a Worthington, Minnesota-based newspaper. The Coney Island-style dance hall was homed in a two-story wooden structure (a funhouse was positioned on the first floor).
Located in Arnolds Park is the Abbie Gardner Sharp Cabin Museum, a site of the 1857 "Spirit Lake Massacre", a violent conflict between European pioneer and Native Americans.American Fact - Finder.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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Municipalities and communities of Dickinson County, Iowa, United States Arnolds Park Lake Park Milford Okoboji Orleans Spirit Lake Superior Terril Wahpeton West Okoboji
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