Lamoni, Iowa Lamoni, Iowa Location of Lamoni, Iowa Location of Lamoni, Iowa Lamoni, Iowa is positioned in the US Lamoni, Iowa - Lamoni, Iowa Lamoni is a town/city in Decatur County, Iowa, United States.
Lamoni is the home of Graceland University, affiliated with the Community of Christ, and the town/city was the church's command posts from 1880 to 1920 when it moved to Independence, Missouri.
The Lamoni region was first settled in 1834 to 1840 by citizens who thought they were settling in slave-owning Missouri.
It was only after the Sullivan Line separating Missouri and Iowa was formally surveyed when Iowa became a state in 1846 that they realized they were in non-slave-owning Iowa. In 1870, Joseph Smith III authorized the Order of Enoch to purchase over three thousand acres (12 km ) to form a improve of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church).
The town/city was titled after Lamoni, a king mentioned in the Book of Mormon.
Lamoni, which is just north of the Missouri border, was chosen because of its good farmland and because of its being about 100 miles north of Temple Lot, which is an meaningful locale of church teachings.
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, led by Brigham Young, had passed through the improve in 1846, staying at close-by Garden Grove, Iowa, while en route from Nauvoo, Illinois, (where they had settled after being forced to leave Missouri) to the Salt Lake Valley. In 1880, Smith moved to Lamoni (as did the RLDS Church headquarters) from Plano, Illinois. In 1895, the church established Graceland University in Lamoni.
Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg, members of the church and affiliated with the church-owned General Supply Company, which owned Lamoni mills, hardware and grocery stores, started a grocery store chain called the Supply Store in 1930, which in turn became Hy-Vee (from their two names).
Lamoni is positioned at 40 37 21 N 93 56 1 W (40.622563, -93.933739). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.44 square miles (8.91 km2), of which 3.34 square miles (8.65 km2) is territory and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km2) is water. United States Enumeration Bureau.
The populace density was 723.6 citizens per square mile (279.4/km ).
There were 927 housing units at an average density of 288.7 per square mile (111.5/km ).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 88.6% White, 5.7% African American, 0.6% Native American, 1.1% Asian, 0.7% Pacific Islander, 1.1% from other competitions, and 2.0% from two or more competitions.
There were 770 homeholds of which 24% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 42.7% were married couples living together, 9.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 44.5% were non-families.
32.3% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 13.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The populace density was 761.1 citizens per square mile (294.0/km ).
There were 904 housing units at an average density of 281.5 per square mile (108.7/km ).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 91.86% White, 2.95% African American, 0.16% Native American, 1.60% Asian, 0.41% Pacific Islander, 0.82% from other competitions, and 2.21% from two or more competitions.
There were 818 homeholds, out of which 21.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 44.7% were married couples living together, 5.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 47.6% were non-families.
36.7% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 16.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
About 6.9% of families and 15.3% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 7.2% of those under age 18 and 9.2% of those age 65 or over.
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Average weather for Lamoni Weather Channel Retrieved 2008-04-08 United States Enumeration Bureau.
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