Coralville, Iowa Coralville, Iowa City Center Square in downtown Coralville City Center Square in downtown Coralville Official seal of Coralville, Iowa Location of Coralville, Iowa Location of Coralville, Iowa Metro Iowa City Metropolitan Area Coralville is a town/city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States.
It is a suburb of Iowa City and part of the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Coralville is the locale of the Edgewater Park Site, a 3,800-year-old archaeological site along the Iowa River.
Coralville incorporated as a town/city in June first, 1857.
The city's name comes from the fossils that are found in the limestone along the Iowa River.
In 1864 Louis Agassiz, a Harvard University zoologist, gave a lecture at the close-by University of Iowa titled "The Coral Reefs of Iowa City". During the lecture he presented small-town samples of fossilized Devonian reconstructioncoral. The lecture was well received and helped raise enhance interest in the small-town fossils.
In 1866, more corals were identified at the site of a new mill, inspiring the people of the region to name the settlement "Coralville". The first foundry at Coralville was assembled in 1844, and in the years that followed, a number of mills were powered by the Coralville foundry dam along the Iowa River, but all of the mills had closed by 1900, except for a low-head hydroelectric plant that remained in operation until the mid 20th century.
Coralville is also the locale where some 1300 Mormon immigrants stopped to make camp in their migration of 1856 after having traveled west by rail to Iowa City, which was the westernmost rail end at the time.
It had only 433 citizens in 1940, but by 1970 Coralville's populace had jumped to 6,130. The assembly of Interstate 80 in the 1960s brought a several motels, fast-food restaurants, and gas stations to Coralville.
By the mid-1960s, the autonomous school precinct of Coralville was took in by the Iowa City Community School District.
Junior and senior high school students rode buses into Iowa City.
In 1971 the precinct built Northwest Junior High on property just to the south of Kirkwood Elementary, which then began handling 7th and 8th graders who lived west of the Iowa River.
In 1958 the United States Army Corps of Engineers instead of Coralville Dam along the Iowa River four miles (6 km) north of the city, creating Coralville Lake.
Except for the Great Flood of 1993 and the Great Iowa flood of 2008, the dam has helped prevent serious flooding in the city.
From June through August 1993, all three of Coralville's chief transportation links with Iowa City were submerged.
The First Methodist Church (Coralville, Iowa) was assembled 1963 to the designs by architect Thomas Patrick Reilly of Crites & Mc - Connell, 860 17th Street S.E, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52403. Coralville is also home to the Iowa Firefighter's Memorial, positioned just off I-80 at the First Avenue exit.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.05 square miles (31.21 km2), of which, 12.01 square miles (31.11 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) is water. The Iowa River runs along the east edge of Coralville and forms part of the boundary with Iowa City.
Interstate 80 runs east west through Coralville, and most of the city's newer housing subdivisions are positioned north of I-80.
Highway 218, and Iowa Highway 27 (the Avenue of the Saints) run along the city's west edge.
218/Iowa 27 is divided between the town/city limits of Coralville and neighboring Tiffin after recent annexations.
The median age in the town/city was 31.6 years.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $38,080, and the median income for a family was $57,869.
Iowa City, Iowa Media; and Cedar Rapids, Iowa Media Coralville has one licensed low-power FM station, KOUR-LP at 92.7 FM. KCJJ 1630 AM, which is licensed to Iowa City, began transmitting from studios in Coralville's Iowa River Landing in 2007.
Kirkwood, Governor of Iowa, Senator from Iowa, Secretary of the Interior.
Iowa City Republican, March 9, 1864.
City of Coralville, Iowa.
City of Iowa City, Iowa.
"City of Iowa City 2007 Community Profile: Retail and Wholesale Trade" (PDF).
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