Cresco, Iowa Cresco, Iowa Howard County Courthouse in Cresco Howard County Courthouse in Cresco Location of Cresco, Iowa Location of Cresco, Iowa State Iowa Website Cresco Iowa Website Cresco is a town/city in Howard County, Iowa, United States.
The populace was 3,868 in the 2010 census, a diminish from 3,905 in 2000 census. It is the governmental center of county of Howard County. Cresco was platted in 1866 at the time the barns was expanding into the area. Cresco is a Latin phrase meaning "I grow". Cresco was incorporated on June 6, 1868, Cresco's longitude and latitude coordinates in decimal form are 43.374491, 92.115121. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.35 square miles (8.68 km2), all of it land. Cresco experiences a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfb) with long, cold, snowy winters and very warm, humid summers.
Climate data for Cresco The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 97.3% White, 0.4% African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.7% from other competitions, and 1.1% from two or more competitions.
There were 1,660 homeholds of which 29.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 45.1% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.9% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 42.0% were non-families.
36.3% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 17.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.26 and the average family size was 2.95.
The median age in the town/city was 39.8 years.
25.1% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 7.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.2% were from 25 to 44; 23.6% were from 45 to 64; and 19.7% were 65 years of age or older.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 98.77% White, 0.23% African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.15% Asian, 0.03% from other competitions, and 0.67% from two or more competitions.
There were 1,652 homeholds out of which 30.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 49.0% were married couples living together, 8.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 39.2% were non-families.
35.0% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 19.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.27 and the average family size was 2.95.
Age spread: 25.6% under the age of 18, 7.1% from 18 to 24, 26.1% from 25 to 44, 18.5% from 45 to 64, and 22.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 2.1% of families and 6.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 5.2% of those under age 18 and 5.9% of those age 65 or over.
The Mighty Howard County Fair is held annually in Cresco every June.
Cresco Community Theatre is a non-profit organization open to anyone with an idea or the desire to contribute.
Cresco is home to the Glen Brand Wrestling Hall of Fame of Iowa that had its first inductee banquet in 1970.
Although Cresco is no longer on a barns line, it is home to a restored Milwaukee Road FP7 diesel engine which is known as the Heritage Train and displayed in Beadle Park at the center of the town/city on Highway 9.
Cresco is also command posts for Featherlite Trailers.
The Cresco postal service contains a mural, Iowa Farming, painted in 1937 by Richard Haines.
The town/city journal is the weekly Cresco Times Plain Dealer, presented on Wednesdays.
Cresco is home to one of the biggest school districts in Iowa in terms of square miles, the Howard-Winneshiek Community School District.
Crestwood Elementary/Junior High School are also in Cresco, Lime Springs/Chester Elementary, in Lime Springs, and Elma Elementary, in Elma.
Every other undertaking from Elma, Lime Springs, and Chester will be bussed to the Cresco center.
Also beginning with the 2014 2015 school year, kids in Elma will have the open enrollment choice: their parents be able to decide if they want them at Howard-Winn, or Riceville.
The Howard-Winn improve school precinct had an Elementary school in Ridgeway that closed its doors after the 2009 2010 school year.
Notre Dame Catholic School in Cresco, and Trinity Catholic school in Protivin, offer private education to elementary school students.
Harold Nichols, Iowa State University wrestling coach "Cresco Iowa Chamber of Commerce".
Cresco Iowa Chamber of Commerce.
State Data Center of Iowa.
"Profile for Cresco, Iowa, IA".
History of Chickasaw and Howard Counties, Iowa, Volume 1.
"Cresco, Iowa".
"Climatography of the United States NO.20" (PDF).
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Mighty Howard County Fair".
"Cresco Community Theatre".
"Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame".
"Public Library mural, Cresco, Iowa".
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