Mount Vernon, Iowa Mount Vernon, Iowa Location of Mount Vernon, Iowa Location of Mount Vernon, Iowa Mount Vernon, Iowa is positioned in the US Mount Vernon, Iowa - Mount Vernon, Iowa Mount Vernon is a town/city in Linn County, Iowa, United States, adjoining to the town/city of Lisbon.
The city's populace was 3,390 when the 2000 census figures were released, but that number was later revised to 3,808 because the Enumeration Bureau had incorrectly reported that 418 inhabitants of a Cornell College dormitory in Mount Vernon lived in the close-by city of Bertram. A special census taken by the town/city in 2004 counted 4,171 residents. The populace was 4,506 at the 2010 census.
Mount Vernon is part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Mount Vernon was laid out in 1847. It was titled after Mount Vernon, the estate of George Washington. A postal service has been in operation in Mount Vernon since 1849. Mount Vernon is positioned at 41 55 27 N 91 25 11 W (41.924096, -91.419679). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.50 square miles (9.06 km2), of which, 3.49 square miles (9.04 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. The central geographic feature of Mount Vernon is the "mountain" on which it sits.
This "mountain" is actually a paha, a ridge formed of sand and loess along the line of the prevailing wind amid the ice ages. The Mount Vernon paha is roughly one mile (2 km) long and 1/4 mile (1/2 km) wide, aligned along a roughly northwest to southeast axis and standing up to 100 feet (30 m) above the encircling landscape.
Uptown Mount Vernon is aligned with the southeast end of the ridge crest, while the ground of Cornell College crowns the northwest end of the ridge. The CRANDIC interurban electric stockyards ran from Cedar Rapids, through downtown Mount Vernon, and ended in close-by Lisbon.
There were 1,397 housing units at an average density of 400.3 per square mile (154.6/km2).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 95.0% White, 0.9% African American, 0.2% Native American, 1.7% Asian, 0.5% from other competitions, and 1.6% from two or more competitions.
There were 1,353 homeholds of which 37.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 54.2% were married couples living together, 9.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 2.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 33.9% were non-families.
22.9% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 27.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 19.7% were from 25 to 44; 20.1% were from 45 to 64; and 9.5% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 1,192 housing units at an average density of 342.1 per square mile (132.3/km ).
There were 1,129 homeholds out of which 37.6% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 57.8% were married couples living together, 9.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 29.5% were non-families.
The age spread: 25.6% under the age of 18, 20.5% from 18 to 24, 23.2% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 9.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 4.1% of families and 5.5% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 4.2% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over.
A sidewalk chalk festival, Chalk the Walk, has taken place in Mount Vernon each May starting in 2006.
Several blocks in Uptown Mount Vernon are closed to traffic, and citizens from all over are encouraged to problematic their own artwork on more than 4,000 square feet (370 m2) of the chief street.
In the October 2009 version of Budget Travel Magazine in an article entitled America's Coolest Small Towns Mount Vernon was encompassed as one of the ten chose.
Mount Vernon is the home of Cornell College, a liberal arts institution with an enrollment of approximately 1,200 students.
Mount Vernon has a middle school, high school, and elementary school.
Early History, Growth and Development of Mount Vernon, Robert Meeker, n.d.
Mount Vernon, Iowa, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1993 United States Enumeration Bureau.
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