Ottumwa, Iowa "Ottumwa"
Ottumwa, Iowa Location of Ottumwa in the state of Iowa.
Location of Ottumwa in the state of Iowa.
State Iowa Ottumwa (/ t mw / -tum-w ) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Wapello County, Iowa, United States. The populace was 25,023 at the 2010 census.
Located in southeastern Iowa, the town/city is split into northern and southern halves by the Des Moines River.
Map of Ottumwa from 1908, showing the barns s and coal mines (shown in red) of the region.
In 1857, coal was being mined from the Mc - Cready bank, a site along Bear Creek four miles west of Ottumwa.
In subsequent years, they opened 5 more shafts in the Phillips and Rutledge neighborhoods, just north of Ottumwa. The Phillips number 5 shaft was 140 feet deep, with a 375 horse power steam hoist. By 1889, the state mine inspector's report listed 15 mine shafts in Ottumwa. In 1914, the Phillips Fuel Company produced over 100,000 tons of coal, ranking among the top 24 coal producers in the state. Coal quarrying was so meaningful to the small-town economy that, from 1890 to 1892, the Coal Palace was erected in Ottumwa as an exhibition center.
John Morrell & Company played a momentous part in the evolution of the City of Ottumwa from 1877 to 1973.
Because of the Iowa caucuses, Ottumwa is no stranger to visits by presidential hopefuls.
President Harry Truman spent part of his 66th birthday, May 8, 1950, in Ottumwa while on a 16-state train trip in support of his Fair Deal program. In July 1971, President Richard Nixon appeared in Air Force One at the Ottumwa Industrial Airport on his way to dedicate the close-by Rathbun Lake dam and reservoir. It was a homecoming for Nixon of sorts, as he had been stationed at the Ottumwa airport while serving in the U.S.
In September 2012 Vice President Joe Biden made a campaign stop in Ottumwa, where he spoke at the Bridgeview Center. Ottumwa's longitude and latitude coordinates in decimal form are 41.012917, 92.414817. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 16.53 square miles (42.81 km2), of which, 15.86 square miles (41.08 km2) is territory and 0.67 square miles (1.74 km2) is water. As the home of Twin Galaxies, Ottumwa was proclaimed the "Video Game Capital of the World" by a mayoral decree issued on November 30, 1982, by Ottumwa Mayor Jerry Parker. The city's proclamation was recognized by U.S.
Senator Charles Grassley. In connection with this proclamation, the town/city hosted the first North American Video Olympics in the fall of 1982. In 2009, the town/city council and chamber of commerce authorized a steering committee to plan out the International Video Game Hall of Fame exhibition, which, while not yet built, has inducted a several video game trade professionals, developers and designers, and high-scoring players into the Hall of Fame.
"Radar" O'Reilly Company clerk from M*A*S*H tv series and books was from Ottumwa, Iowa.
The character was based on Don Shaffer, a veteran who is from Ottumwa.
(played by Laurence Fishburne), who claimed Ottumwa as his hometown.
The tv movie The Woman Who Loved Elvis starring Rosanne Barr (then the wife of Ottumwa native Tom Arnold) was partially filmed in Ottumwa. In the sitcom Roseanne, Roseanne Connor's restaurant, the Lanford Lunch Box, was based on the Canteen Lunch in the Alley, in central downtown Ottumwa, which has been a stopping point for Ottumwans since the 1920s.
Pansy Bump a character in the Nero Wolfe novel Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout was from Ottumwa Ottumwa High School is part of the Ottumwa enhance school system.
Ottumwa is the home of Indian Hills Community College, a two-year improve college.
Between 1928 and 1980, it was also home to Ottumwa Heights College, a women's college that consolidated with Indian Hills in 1979 to problematic one institution.
Indian Hills is positioned at the former Ottumwa Heights campus.
According to Ottumwa's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city were: 2 John Deere Ottumwa Works 940 3 Ottumwa Regional Health Center 750 4 Ottumwa Community School District 616 8 City of Ottumwa 263 Paired with Kirksville, Missouri, Ottumwa is a media market region, ranked #199 by Nielsen.
1480 AM 250 day, 17 evening KLEE Good time oldies Oldies O-Town Communications Klee was sold by FMC Broadcasting to O-town Communications on December 24, 2013 105.3 FM 34,000 KEDB Iowa's true oldies channel Oldies Honey Creek Broadcasting 98.7 FM 100,000 KMGO Iowa's Country.
97.7 FM 19,000 KOTM 97.7 Tom FM Top 40 (CHR) O-Town Communications Kotm was sold by FMC Broadcasting to O-town Communications on December 24, 2013 104.3 FM 23,500 KRKN New Country 104.3 Country music O-Town Communications 91.1 FM 1,450 KICW Classical music / Iowa Public Radio University of Northern Iowa K18 - GU-D 18 Translator of KIIN Iowa City, a PBS and IPTV partner The Ottumwa Courier is the major daily newspaper, The Ottumwa Post https://ottumwapost.com Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides service to the Ottumwa Amtrak station, operating its California Zephyr daily in both directions between Chicago, Illinois, and Emeryville, California, athwart the San Francisco Bay from San Francisco.
Ottumwa Transit Authority operates bus services throughout the Ottumwa area. The fixed-route fitness includes five routes and a shopping shuttle. It also operates a para-transit service known as Ottumwa Transit Authority Lift and Job Access Reverse Commute (JARC), a dial-a-ride service geared towards employees. The five routes that operate Monday through Friday are: #1 North, #2 East West, #3 South Residential, #4 South Commercial, and #7 Airport.
The BNSF Railway has tracks through Ottumwa.
Highway 63 bridge, cross the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad tracks at grade, exit Ottumwa, and later cross over the Des Moines River on their way to Albia, Iowa, and later Omaha, Nebraska.
Ottumwa is positioned on the Davenport, Iowa, to Kansas City, Mo.
The Norfolk Southern Railway has trackage rights over the BNSF through Ottumwa.
Ottumwa has many historic structures as well as a several historic districts that are listed on the National Register.
The town/city has an active Historic Preservation Commission that has worked to preserve some of the most meaningful structures in the improve since 1989. The following structures and districts are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Ottumwa Cemetery Hotel Ottumwa Ottumwa Public Library Ottumwa City Hall Ottumwa Young Women's Christian Association Edna Ferber novelist who lived in Ottumwa as a child Herschel Loveless (1911 1989) 34th Governor of Iowa 1957 61, Mayor of Ottumwa 1949 53 Mc - Coy Iowa state legislator Navy harbor tug USS Ottumwa (YTB-761) was titled for the city.
Des Moines, Iowa: Historical Department of Iowa.
Des Moines, Iowa: Iowa Geological Survey.
Des Moines, Iowa: Iowa Geological Survey.
Fourth Biennial Report Of The State Mine Inspectors To The Governor Of The State Of Iowa For The Years 1888 And 1889.
Des Moines, Iowa.
"John Morrell & Company Meat Packing Plant, 316 South Iowa Street, Ottumwa, Wapello County, IA".
Ottumwa Courier.
Ottumwa Courier.
A Brief History of Wapello County, Iowa by Tom Quinn, n.d.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Ottumwa, video game capital of the world? "Congratulations on becoming "Video Game Capital"".
"1982 North American Video Game Olympics program cover (GIF Image, 370x574 pixels)".
City of Ottumwa CAFR "Iowa Office of Public Transit".
"Iowa Office of Public Transit".
Iowa General Assembly-Jack E.
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Municipalities and communities of Wapello County, Iowa, United States County seat: Ottumwa Agency Blakesburg Chillicothe Eddyville Eldon Kirkville Ottumwa
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