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Cedar Rapids, Iowa Cedar Rapids Flag of Cedar Rapids, Iowa Flag Official seal of Cedar Rapids, Iowa Cedar Rapids, Iowa is positioned in the US Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Cedar Rapids, Iowa Cedar Rapids / si d r r p dz/ is the second biggest city in Iowa and is the governmental center of county of Linn County.
The town/city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, 20 miles (32 km) north of Iowa City and 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Des Moines, the state's capital and biggest city.
It is a part of the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Corridor of Linn, Benton, Cedar, Jones, Johnson, and Washington counties. Until massive flooding in 2008, the city's government was headquartered in the Veterans Memorial Building, near the Linn County Courthouse and jail on Mays Island in the Cedar River; Cedar Rapids was one of a several metros/cities in the world, along with Paris, France, with governmental offices on a municipal island. A expand center for arts and culture in Eastern Iowa, the town/city is home to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, the Paramount Theatre, Orchestra Iowa, Theatre Cedar Rapids, the black Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa, the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance.
Cedar Rapids is an economic core of the state, positioned in the core of the Interstate 380.
Cedar Rapids has been residence to famous figures for the United States, including American Gothic painter Grant Wood, journalist and historian William L.
The town/city is also the setting for the musical The Pajama Game and the comedy film Cedar Rapids.
Cedar Rapids is nicknamed the "City of Five Seasons", for the "fifth season", which is time to appreciate the other four. The motif of the five seasons is the Tree of Five Seasons sculpture in downtown along the north river bank.
Downtown Cedar Rapids, overlooking the Cedar River.
Second Avenue SE in downtown Cedar Rapids looking towards the Cedar River.
The locale of present-day Cedar Rapids was in the territory of the Fox and Sac tribes.
When Cedar Rapids was first established in 1838, William Stone titled the town Columbus.
They titled the town Cedar Rapids for the rapids in the Cedar River at the site, and the river itself was titled for the large number of red cedar trees that interval along its banks. Cedar Rapids was incorporated on January 15, 1849. Cedar Rapids took in the improve of Kingston in 1870.
The economic expansion of Cedar Rapids increased in 1871 upon the beginning of the Sinclair meatpacking company.
In 2010, the Enumeration Bureau reported Cedar Rapids' populace as 87.98% white, and 5.58% black. During the Iowa flood of 2008, the Cedar River reached a record high of 31.12 feet (9.49 m) on June 13, 2008, the previous record was 20 feet (6.1 m) surpassing the 500-year flood plain.
1,126 town/city blocks were flooded, or more than 10 square miles (26 km2), 561 town/city blocks were severely damaged, on both banks of the Cedar River.
It is estimated 1300 or more properties are to be completed in the Cedar Rapids region because of the flood, which caused a several billions of dollars in damages.
During the flood of 2016, remnants of Hurricane Paine from the easterly Pacific Ocean via the Gulf of California caused the second highest recorded crest of the Cedar River in Cedar Rapids reaching 22 feet (6.7 m) on Tuesday, September 27, 2016. The inundation of southern Minnesota, central and Wisconsin, and northeastern Iowa by Hurricane Paine's remnants began on September 21 and 22 and continued until the end of September 2016. This cresting in Cedar Rapids was below the initial estimate of 25 feet (7.6 m) and the revised estimate of 23 feet (7.0 m), but more than 10 feet (3.0 m) above the flood stage of 12 feet (3.7 m). This flood was above levels considered to have about a 1 percent chance of occurring in a given year. More than 5,000 homes were affected including the flooded areas around Time Check Park, the Czech Village, and the New Bohemia precinct causing over 5,000 persons to be evacuated. The Cedar Rapids Schools did not have school for a week. In 2015, the town/city of Cedar Rapids allowed a $625 million flood protection plan over 20 years for levee improvements. Although the enhancement to the levee fitness in Cedar Rapids had not been instead of due to over $80 million in funding not appropriated by the United States Congresses of 2014 and 2016 and the voting down by small-town inhabitants of a temporary increase in the small-town sales tax to pay for the levee improvements, these students along with the hundreds of thousands of volunteers and 412 Iowa National Guard troops filled more than a quarter of a million sand bags in a prosperous accomplishment that inhibited any primary flooding of the town/city outside of the evacuation zone. A 9.8-mile (15.8 km) fitness of Hesco barriers, earthen berms, and over 400,000 sand bags were used to plug the gaps in the levee system. The town/city of Cedar Rapids purchased additional Hesco barriers from Iowa City for $1.4 million. Numerous upstream metros/cities which had been earlier affected by the September flooding and mandatory evacuations including Charles City, Greene, Manchester, Clarksville, Shell Rock, Vinton, Janesville, Cedar Falls and Waterloo sent hundreds of thousands of unused sand bags to support accomplishments in Cedar Rapids and close-by communities. The remnants of Hurricane Paine did not produce any precipitation to saturate the temporary earth berms and sand bags, which would have greatly increased the likelihood of breach in the temporary levee structures and thus causing a much greater flooded area; the river crested amid very sunny weather in Cedar Rapids.
Areas outside of the town/city limit that use the "Cedar Rapids" town/city name on their mailing address also do not use the quadrants.
Due to the curving of 1st Avenue, there are some areas in Cedar Rapids where NW addresses are actually south of SW addresses.
Cedar Rapids is divided into fourteen ZIP Codes.
There are twelve active neighborhood associations in Cedar Rapids.
Also farther north in the northeast quadrant is the Kenwood Park, which was autonomous until it was incorporated into the Cedar Rapids town/city limits, and Noelridge Park neighborhood.
In addition to the neighborhood associations in Cedar Rapids, there are many informal, unofficial neighborhoods, such as Bowman Woods, Vernon Heights, Stoney Point, New Bohemia (New - Bo) and Wilderness Estates.
The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library is one of the primary tourist attractions in Cedar Rapids, and the close-by Bohemian National Cemetery may also be of interest to visitors.
1400 The exhibition moved a several blocks after the flood to Inspiration Pl SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404.
The Cedar Rapids Czech Heritage Foundation is one of many small-town organizations working to promote and preserve Czech tradition in Cedar Rapids.
Cedar Rapids is also home to the historic 26 acre (105,000 m ) Brucemore Estate, on which sits a 21-room mansion, and the Masonic Library and Museum.
In 2009, Cedar Rapids was rated one of the "Top 10 metros/cities to Grow Up In" in the United States, partly due to a low crime rate and a good enhance school system. Cedar Rapids has a humid continental climate with long, cold, sometimes brutal winters with plenty of snow, while summers are hot and humid, with incessant harsh thunderstorms.
The record low temperature in Cedar Rapids is 29 F ( 34 C), set on January 15, 2009, while the record high temperature of 104 F (40 C) was set on July 31, 1988.
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The Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Travel Destination consists of Linn, Benton, and Jones counties.
As a burgeoning job center, Cedar Rapids pulls commuters from close-by Marion and Hiawatha.
In the 2000 census, Cedar Rapids was 91.9% non-Hispanic white, with well over half of the populace claiming a specific ethnic European ancestry, such as Germans (35.5%), Irish (17.1%), English (9.4%), Czechs (7.8%), Norwegians (5.1%), and French from either France or Canada (3.2%). The town/city also has a burgeoning minority population: for example, in the three-year reconstructionfrom 2006 to 2008, the U.S.
Enumeration Bureau estimated that 4.9% of the Cedar Rapids populace identified as African Americans, up from 3.7% in the 2000 census. Cedar Rapids has played an meaningful part in Muslim culture in the United States.
Muslim existence in the region dates to 1895 when the first immigrants appeared from the Beqaa Valley in today's Lebanon and Syria. Islamic Services of America (I.S.A.) was established in Cedar Rapids in 1975 and provides Halal Certification and oversight throughout the world. Cedar Rapids is one of the biggest cities in the world for corn processing.
The grain refining trade is Cedar Rapids' most meaningful sector, directly providing 4,000 jobs that pay on average $85,000, and also providing 8,000 indirectly. Fortune 500 business Rockwell Collins and trucking business CRST are based in Cedar Rapids, and Aegon has its United States command posts there.
Other large companies that have facilities in Cedar Rapids include Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, General Mills, Toyota Financial Services and Nordstrom. Newspaperarchive, based in Cedar Rapids, is the biggest journal archive in North America with a repository of more than 150 million pages assembled over 250 years; it was taken offline for two days by the 2008 flood.
According to Cedar Rapids' 2014 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the region are: 4 Cedar Rapids Community School District 2,936 8 City of Cedar Rapids 1,311 Brucemore, Iowa's only National Trust Historic Site, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Cedar Rapids is home to Orchestra Iowa, the Paramount Theatre, Theatre Cedar Rapids, and Brucemore, a National Trust Historic Site, among others.
Cedar Rapids is also home to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, The Cedar Rapids Ceramics Center, Legion Art's CSPS Hall, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, the African American Historical Museum, Kirkwood Community College's Iowa Hall Gallery, and the legendary Grant Wood Studio at 5 Turner Alley.
These Cedar Rapids venues have recently hosted world class and award impel exhibitions, including the works of Andy Warhol, Grant Wood, and the Iowa Biennial, among others.
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art homes the biggest compilation of Grant Wood paintings in the world.
The 1920s Paramount Theatre is home to the Orchestra Iowa and the Cedar Rapids Area Theatre Organ Society.
Many arts centers in Cedar Rapids sustained harsh damage amid the June 2008 flood.
Among those severely damaged are the Paramount Theatre, Theatre Cedar Rapids, the National Czech & Slovak Museum, and the African American Historical Museum.
Two Wurlitzer organs were damaged, positioned at the Paramount Theatre and Theatre Cedar Rapids.
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art suffered minor damage.
It is expected to cost $25 million to repair the Paramount; Theatre Cedar Rapids reopened in February 2010. Cedar Rapids is home to four minor league sports franchises: the Cedar Rapids Kernels, a member of minor league baseball's Midwest League since 1962, are the Class-A partner of the Minnesota Twins and play at Veterans Memorial Stadium the Cedar Rapids Roughriders are members of the United States Hockey League, playing at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena the Cedar Rapids Titans, members of the Indoor Football League, play at the U.S.
The Cedar Rapids Rampage play Major Arena Soccer League matches at the U.S.
Cedar Rapids has over 3,360 acres (13.6 km2) of town/city owned property for undeveloped green space and recreational use.
The various trail systems in Cedar Rapids have a total of 24 miles (39 km) for walking, running or bicycling. Cedar Rapids mayors since 1969 Veterans Memorial Building, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
From April 6, 1908, to December 31, 2005, Cedar Rapids used the town/city commission form of government.
Don Canney, the longest serving mayor in town/city history, served for twenty-two years under this system. The last mayor of Cedar Rapids under this form of government was Paul Pate.
In 2005 the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce spearheaded a boss to change from the commission form of government.
Cedar Rapids now has an Iowa "Home Rule" charter which establishes a weak mayor fitness with a part-time City Council and Mayor both on four-year terms. Cedar Rapids is home to two four-year colleges: Coe College and Mount Mercy University.
Cornell College in Mount Vernon and the University of Iowa's chief campus in Iowa City are both inside 30 miles (48 km) of Cedar Rapids.
The Cedar Rapids Community School District is the biggest school precinct in the urbane region with an enrollment of 17,263 in the 2006 2007 school year. The precinct contains 24 elementary schools, six middle schools, and four high schools: Jefferson, Washington, Kennedy, and Metro High School (an alternative high school). Two neighboring school districts draw students from inside the Cedar Rapids town/city limits.
The Linn-Mar Community School District serves part of the northeast quadrant of the town/city and has seven elementary schools inside the town/city limits. The College Community School District serves part of the southwest quadrant of Cedar Rapids as well as neighboring non-urban portions of Linn, Benton and Johnson counties.
The Cedar Rapids Metro Catholic Education System, which is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque, consists of six elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school (Xavier).
The Cedar Rapids Catholic Education System and Cedar Rapids Community School District are synonymous with each other in the Cedar Rapids Public and Parochial School System.
The town/city hosts a several private schools, including Summit Schools, Cedar Valley Christian School, Trinity Lutheran School, Isaac Newton Christian Academy, and Faith Christian Learning Center.
Media in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Cedar Rapids' radio market, which consists of Linn County, is ranked 211th by Arbitron with 172,000 listeners aged 12 and older. Clear Channel Communications owns four stations in the Cedar Rapids area, including WMT 600 AM, a news/talk station that has broadcast since 1922.
Clear Channel also owns KKSY-FM 96.5, a undivided nation music station; KMJM 1360 AM, a classic nation station; and KOSY-FM 95.7 FM, a hit music station. Townsquare Media owns four airways broadcasts in Cedar Rapids, which were formerly owned by Cumulus Media: KDAT 104.5 FM (adult contemporary), KHAK 98.1 FM (country music), and KRNA 94.1 FM (classic rock).
KRQN broadcasts a (contemporary hits) format. Three other stations in Cedar Rapids are autonomously owned: KZIA 102.9 FM (contemporary hits), KGYM 1600 AM (sports radio), and KMRY 1450 AM/93.1 FM (Classic Hits). Several stations from Davenport, Waterloo, and Iowa City also figure into ratings in Cedar Rapids. These stations include Waterloo-licensed intact Christian "Life 101.9," KNWS-FM; KFMW 107.9 FM, known as "Rock 108," with an active modern format; and KOKZ 105.7 FM, which has a classic hits format.
Clear Channel-owned KKRQ 100.7 FM, with a classic modern format, is the Iowa City station that is typically highly rated in Cedar Rapids.
The only noncommercial station licensed to Cedar Rapids is KCCK-FM 88.3 FM, a jazz station licensed to Kirkwood Community College.
KXGM 89.1 is a non-commercial intact Christian music station licensed to neighboring Hiawatha. NPR stations from Cedar Falls (KUNI (FM) 90.9 FM) and Iowa City (KSUI 91.7 FM and WSUI 910 AM) reach Cedar Rapids. The Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Iowa City-Dubuque media market consists of 21 easterly Iowa counties: Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cedar, Chickasaw, Clayton, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette, Grundy, Iowa, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Linn, Tama, Washington, and Winneshiek. It is ranked 88th by Nielsen Media Research for the 2008 2009 tv season with 346,330 tv homeholds. Cedar Rapids is home to four network-affiliated stations: KGAN channel 2 (CBS), KCRG channel 9 (ABC), KFXA channel 28 (Fox), and KPXR-TV channel 48 (ION).
NBC partner KWWL channel 7 and The CW partner KWWL-DT2 are based in Waterloo and maintain a newsroom inside the Alliant Energy fortress in downtown Cedar Rapids.
Public tv is provided by Iowa Public Television, which has two stations in the area: KIIN channel 12 in Iowa City and KRIN channel 32 in Waterloo.
Mediacom and small-town company Im - On Communications furnish cable tv service to Cedar Rapids.
The Gazette is the major daily journal for Cedar Rapids.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette won a Pulitzer Prize in 1936, under editor Verne Marshall and primarily due to his accomplishments and articles, for its campaign against corruption and misgovernment in the State of Iowa. Cedar Rapids is an American comedy film about a naive insurance agent, played by Ed Helms, who is sent to represent his business at a county-wide conference in big town Cedar Rapids. Although the film is set in Cedar Rapids, it was actually mostly shot in Ann Arbor, Michigan, although exterior shots were done in Cedar Rapids. Released on February 26, 2010,The Crazies is a 2010 film which fictionally takes place near Cedar Rapids at Odgen Marsh, Iowa.
They then exit their wrecked semi and begin walking towards Cedar Rapids.
A view from a military satellite highlights first the couple, then the town/city of Cedar Rapids.
Later, amid the credits, Bruce Aune, a real newscaster from KCRG-TV 9 in Cedar Rapids reports that an explosion originating from the Dakon Pendrill chemical plant started a massive fire in Ogden Marsh which is merely a cover story for the National Guard's actual destruction of the town.
Cedar Rapids is served by Cedar Rapids Transit, consisting of an extensive bus fitness and taxis.
Cedar Rapids Transit operates scheduled bus service throughout the town/city and to Marion and Hiawatha. A series of enclosed pedestrian skywalks connect a several downtown buildings. The town/city is also served by The Eastern Iowa Airport (formerly known as the Cedar Rapids Airport), a county-wide airport that joins with other county-wide and global airports.
Cedar Rapids Transit and private bus lines also connect at the airport. Interstate 380, part of the Avenue of the Saints, runs north-south through Cedar Rapids.
Cedar Rapids is served by four primary barns s.
They are the Union Pacific, the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway (Crandic), the Canadian National, and the Iowa Northern Railway Company [IANR].
The Crandic and the Iowa Interstate Railroad also are headquartered in Cedar Rapids.
The Iowa Interstate reaches the town/city via the Crandic tracks, running a daily train from Iowa City, Iowa to Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapids is linked to other Midwestern metros/cities by the Burlington Trailways bus core at the Eastern Iowa Airport. There are two hospitals in Cedar Rapids, St.
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