Carter Lake, Iowa Carter Lake, Iowa City Office Building in Carter Lake, Iowa City Office Building in Carter Lake, Iowa Location of Carter Lake, Iowa Location of Carter Lake, Iowa Carter Lake is a town/city in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States and a suburb of Omaha, Nebraska and sits encircling the south and west sides of the region's primary airport, Eppley Airfield.
Carter Lake is the only town/city in Iowa positioned west of the Missouri River.
The remnants of the old river course, called Saratoga Bend, became an oxbow lake, Carter Lake, for which the town is titled today.
After extensive litigation between Iowa and Nebraska, in 1892 the Supreme Court of the United States finally ruled that Carter Lake belonged to Iowa in Nebraska v.
In 1972, the Supreme Court made another ruling on the circumstances of Carter Lake when it ruled on a boundary dispute between the two states in Nebraska v.
Although Carter Lake was legally considered part of Council Bluffs, inhabitants lacked the basic town/city services appreciateed by inhabitants east of the Missouri but were still subject to town/city taxes.
In 1930, Carter Lake was incorporated as its own municipality.
During the late 1930s and 1940s, the Chez Paree eveningclub and casino directed openly in Carter Lake because casinos were legal in Iowa even though illegal in Nebraska.
Consequently, Carter Lake attained the reputation as the biggest gambling spot between Chicago and Reno. A mistaken belief that a defendant corporation positioned in Carter Lake was a legal resident of Nebraska resulted in another U.S.
Carter Lake creates a geographic oddity for travelers going to Eppley Airfield, which it surrounds on the south and west.
Consequently, travelers going to Eppley Airfield from anywhere except North Omaha will be going through Carter Lake, Iowa.
Carter Lake is positioned at 41 17 34 N 95 54 50 W (41.292647, -95.913989). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.02 square miles (5.23 km2), of which, 1.87 square miles (4.84 km2) is territory and 0.15 square miles (0.39 km2) is water. There were 1,388 homeholds of which 37.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 46.5% were married couples living together, 17.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 7.4% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 28.2% were non-families.
28.3% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 8.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25.1% were from 25 to 44; 25.5% were from 45 to 64; and 12.8% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 1,221 homeholds out of which 32.3% have kids under the age of 18 living with them, 55.4% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 25.1% were non-families.
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Border irregularities of the United States - Cities in Iowa - Internal territorial disputes of the United States - Cities in Pottawattamie County, Iowa - Iowa populated places on the Missouri River - Exclaves in the United States
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