Fort Dodge, Iowa "Fort Dodge"
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Fort Dodge, Iowa Official seal of Fort Dodge, Iowa Location in the State of Iowa Location in the State of Iowa Fort Dodge is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Webster County, Iowa, United States, along the Des Moines River.
The populace was 25,206 in the 2010 census, an increase from 25,136 in the 2000 census. Fort Dodge is a primary commercial center for North Central and Northwest Iowa.
5.5 Fort Dodge Historical Structures Fort Dodge, illustrated by William Williams, 1852.
Fort Dodge traces its beginnings to 1850 when soldiers from the United States Army erected a fort at the junction of the Des Moines River and Lizard Creek.
It was originally titled Fort Clarke but was retitled Fort Dodge because there was another fort with the same name in Texas.
It was titled after Henry Dodge, a governor of Wisconsin Territory (which encompassed Iowa at the time). The fort was abandoned by the Army in 1853.
The next year William Willams, a civilian storekeeper in Fort Dodge, purchased the territory and buildings of the old fort.
The town of Fort Dodge was established in 1869.
Meservey formed the Fort Dodge Plaster Mills to mine, grind, and prepare gypsum for commercial use.
Fort Dodge is positioned at 42 30 25 N 94 10 50 W (42.506803, 94.180271), on the Des Moines River.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 16.31 square miles (42.24 km2), of which, 16.05 square miles (41.57 km2) is territory and 0.26 square miles (0.67 km2) is water. The primary industries of Fort Dodge are biofuels, livestock feed, gypsum and limestone mining, drywall manufacturing, trucking, the manufacture of veterinary pharmaceuticals and vaccines, and retail.
Gypsum modern is processed into drywall and plaster products at a several Fort Dodge manufacturing facilities.
Drywall was patented by a Fort Dodge resident, and the gypsum used to problematic the Cardiff Giant hoax of the late 19th century was mined at Fort Dodge.
Currently National Gypsum Company, Georgia Pacific Corporation, Celotex Corporation,- now Certain - Teed corporation- and the United States Gypsum Company operate gypsum facilities in and around Fort dodge.
Fort Dodge is the home of Fort Dodge Animal Health (a division of Boehringer Ingelheim), a primary producer of pharmaceuticals and vaccines for veterinarian use.
The company's command posts were moved from Fort Dodge to Overland Park, Kansas in 1995.
Two of the company's three United States manufacturing plants are positioned in Fort Dodge.
At least three primary national trucking companies (primarily flatbed carriers serving the drywall industry) are based in Fort Dodge.
For most of the 20th century, meatpacking was a primary industry in Fort Dodge.
The last two large meatpacking plants (owned by Iowa Beef Processors and Hormel) closed amid the 1980s, when such companies moved their facilities closer to beef manufacturing in the West, states such as the Dakotas.
One of the laboratories of Fort Dodge Animal Health was assembled on the site of a former Hormel refining plant.
The Fort Dodge Correctional Facility, a 1,250-bed medium-security state prison, opened in 1998.
The Fort Museum and Frontier Village is positioned on the southwest edge of Fort Dodge.
Additionally, The Fort Museum has a replica of the Cardiff Giant, an archaeological hoax sculpted from gypsum mined at Fort Dodge.
A "Frontier Days" event is held annually on the Fort Museum grounds.
The Blanden Memorial Art Museum, the first enhance exhibition of art in the state of Iowa, is positioned in the historic Oak Hill precinct of Fort Dodge.
Fort Dodge maintains a several music organizations, including a civic choral society, a city-funded municipal band, county-wide symphony orchestra, a Christian choral union, and a men's barbershop chorus.
Fort Dodge Choir Boosters (affiliated with Fort Dodge Senior High School) hosts the annual "Fort Dodge Choral Festival," which features high school and college choirs from around the upper Midwest under the direction of a nationally recognized conductor/composer. Fort Dodge Senior High School serves as a host locale for the Iowa state marching band festival, state Solo & Small Ensemble festival, and county-wide high school jazz band competitions.
Theater and musical theater are historically prominent arts activities in Fort Dodge, with the improve maintaining three autonomous theater organizations.
The Fort Dodge Senior High School musical is the longest-running high school musical theater tradition in the United States, first produced in 1927. Fort Dodge Historical Structures Kennedy Park is the nearest camping facility to Fort Dodge.
The 300 acres (1.2 km2) Gypsum City Off-Highway Vehicle Park opened to the enhance on July 6, 2006.
Fort Dodge is a top tubing destination in the state, offering the swift and clear waters of Lizard Creek, solitude on the Des Moines River from Fort Dodge to the Dolliver Memorial State Park, and the close-by lake at Brushy Creek.
The Fort Dodge Country Club par 71 golf course is one of Iowa's top courses.
Woodman Hollow State Preserve lies roughly 7 miles southeast of Fort Dodge.
Fort Frenzy opened east of town in late 2013.
Fort Dodge is the home to the central ground of Iowa Central Community College.
Fort Dodge is served by the Fort Dodge Community School District. The enhance school fitness includes Fort Dodge Senior High School (9 12), Fort Dodge Middle School (5 8), and a several elementary schools. A new version of Duncombe Elementary School is presently in assembly and is expected to open in December 2017.
Private schools in Fort Dodge include St.
Fort Dodge has been the locale of Iowa High School Athletic Association championship affairs.
Fort Dodge also hosts the Iowa girls' softball championship tournament at Harlan Rogers Park.
88.1 KICB (Iowa Central Community College Broadcasting, "88.1 The Point", alternative rock) 0.2 k - W 91.1 KNSK (Iowa State University/WOI Radio Group, NPR) 100 k - W Fort Dodge is served from the tv stations in the Ames-Des Moines metro area.
Fort Dodge Messenger, daily journal Highway 20 bypasses Fort Dodge to the south, and U.S.
The Fort Dodge Regional Airport is positioned north of town.
Jefferson Bus lines serves Fort Dodge with a link to Williams, Iowa, where travelers can connect to the period Jefferson line.
Unity Point Hospital, formerly Trinity Regional Medical Center, is Fort Dodge's only hospital.
As of December 13, 2016, Fort Dodge has one sister city: United States Enumeration Bureau.American Fact - Finder.
State Data Center of Iowa.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health closes deal to acquire a momentous portion of the Fort Dodge Animal Health Business from Pfizer a b "Fort Dodge Community School District".
Fort Dodge Messenger, May 5th, 1977 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclop dia Britannica article Fort Dodge.
Official Fort Dodge City Website Fort Dodge History Museum Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance (formerly Fort Dodge Chamber of Commerce and Webster County Development Corporation) Fort Dodge Public Library Fort Dodge Convention & Visitors Bureau City Data Comprehensive Statistical Data and more about Fort Dodge, Iowa Municipalities and communities of Webster County, Iowa, United States County seat: Fort Dodge Badger Barnum Callender Clare Dayton Duncombe Farnhamville Fort Dodge Gowrie Harcourt Lehigh Moorland Otho Stratford Vincent
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