Cedar Falls, Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa Location of Cedar Falls, Iowa Location of Cedar Falls, Iowa Cedar Falls, Iowa is positioned in the US Cedar Falls, Iowa - Cedar Falls, Iowa Cedar Falls is a town/city in Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 39,260 and has the lesser population of the two principal metros/cities in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls urbane area.
It is home to the University of Northern Iowa, a enhance university.
Cedar Falls was established in 1845 by William Sturgis.
It was originally titled Sturgis Falls, for the first family who settled the site.
The Sturgis family moved on inside a several years and the town/city was retitled Cedar Falls because of its adjacency to the Cedar River.
However the city's framers are honored each year with a three-day community-wide celebration titled in their honor the Sturgis Falls Celebration. Because of the availability of water power, Cedar Falls advanced as a milling and industrialized center before to the Civil War.
The establishment of the Civil War Soldiers' Orphans Home in Cedar Falls changed the direction in which the town/city developed when, following the war, it became the first building on the ground of the Iowa State Normal School (now the University of Northern Iowa). Cedar Falls is positioned at 42 31 24 N 92 26 45 W (42.523520, 92.446402). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 29.61 square miles (76.69 km2), of which, 28.75 square miles (74.46 km2) is territory and 0.86 square miles (2.23 km2) is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 39,260 citizens , 14,608 homeholds, and 8,091 families residing in the city.
There were 14,608 homeholds of which 24.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 45.5% were married couples living together, 7.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 2.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 44.6% were non-families.
17.3% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 29.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 20.5% were from 25 to 44; 20.1% were from 45 to 64; and 12.4% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 36,145 citizens , 12,833 homeholds, and 7,558 families residing in the city.
Age spread: 18.0% under the age of 18, 30.6% from 18 to 24, 20.5% from 25 to 44, 19.0% from 45 to 64, and 11.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
In 1986, the City of Cedar Falls established the Cedar Falls Art and Culture Board, which oversees the operation of the City's Cultural Division and the James & Meryl Hearst Center for the Arts.
The Cedar Falls Public Library is homed in the Adele Whitenach Davis building positioned at 524 Main Street.
The mission of the Cedar Falls Public Library is to promote literacy and furnish open access to resources which facilitate lifelong learning.
The library is a member of the Cedar Valley Library Consortium(CVLC).
Cedar Falls Public Library shares an Integrated Library System (Sirsi - Dynix Symphony) with the Waterloo Public Library.
Library management is provided by Sheryl Mc - Govern MLS, Director of the Cedar Falls Public Library.
The Cedar Falls Historical Society has its offices in the Victorian Home and Carriage House Museum.
It preserves Cedar Falls' history through its five exhibitions, collection, archives, and enhance programs.
Besides the Victorian House, the Society operates the Cedar Falls Ice House, Little Red Schoolhouse, and Behrens-Rapp Station.
Besides hosting one of the three Iowa enhance universities, University of Northern Iowa (UNI), Cedar Falls is home to two high schools: Valley Lutheran High School, a private Christian school, and Cedar Falls High School, which is part of the enhance school district.
The enhance school district, Cedar Falls Community Schools, includes two junior high schools and six elementary schools.
The Malcolm Price Lab School/Northern University High School, was a state-funded K-12 school run by the university.
As such Cedar Falls Utilities provides gigabit speeds to inhabitants as highlighted by President Barack Obama on January 14, 2015.
Cedar Falls has the power to do so because unlike 19 other states, Iowa does not have any Comcast supported legislation which prohibits municipal broadband to compete with the private cable TV monopoly.
600 WMT Located in Cedar Rapids 2 KGAN 2 (CBS) Located in Cedar Rapids 9 KCRG 9 (ABC) Located in Cedar Rapids 12 KIIN 12 (PBS/IPTV) Located in Iowa City 20 KWKB 20 (The CW) Located in Iowa City 28 KFXA 28 (Fox) Located in Cedar Rapids The Cedar Falls Times, weekly journal The Cedar Valley What Not, weekly advertiser The underground music scene in the Cedar Falls region from 1977 to present day is well documented.
The Wartburg College Art Gallery in Waverly, Iowa hosted a collaborative history of the bands, record labels, and music venues involved in the Cedar Falls music scene which ran from March 17 to April 14, 2007.
This accomplishment has been continued as a wiki style website called The Secret History of the Cedar Valley. See UNI notable alumni for notable citizens from the University of Northern Iowa.
Cedar Falls has no sister Cedar Falls Ice House Cedar Falls Utilities The Cedar Falls, Waterloo and Evansdale metro region has more than 80 miles (130 km) of paved trails for walking, running or bicycling.American Fact - Finder.
State Data Center of Iowa.
"The Cedar Falls Art and Culture Board".
"The Secret History of the Cedar Valley".
MILLER, Helen Markley Born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, she graduated from Iowa State Teachers College and received her master's degree from Western State College ...
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