Storm Lake, Iowa Storm Lake, IA Location of Storm Lake, Iowa Location of Storm Lake, Iowa Storm Lake, IA is positioned in the US Storm Lake, IAStorm Lake, IA Storm Lake is a town/city in Buena Vista County, Iowa, United States.
The populace was 10,600 in the 2010 census, an increase from 10,076 in the 2000 census. It is the governmental center of county of Buena Vista County. Storm Lake is home to Buena Vista University, originally Buena Vista College.
Tyson Foods operates a large hog slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, and turkey refining plant in Storm Lake.
Storm Lake was incorporated in 1873.
The town/city of Storm Lake is titled from the lake where it is said a trapper experienced a harsh storm. Storm Lake is positioned in the northwestern part of the state, near its namesake Storm Lake. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.09 square miles (10.59 km2), all of it land. Storm Lake There were 3,536 homeholds of which 36.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 47.8% were married couples living together, 11.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.5% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 35.5% were non-families.
There were 3,466 homeholds out of which 32.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 51.6% were married couples living together, 8.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 36.3% were non-families.
Storm Lake has one chief school precinct which is composed of 1 high school, 1 middle school (grades 5-8), and 1 elementary school (grades K-4), and an early childhood center.
As of the 2008-2009 school year the Storm Lake Community School District served 2028 students with four elementary schools (PK-4), one middle school (5-8), and one high school (9-12).
Approximately 67% of the district's students receive no-charge or reduced lunch and 12% receive special education services. In the school district, over 50% of students are hispanic, and over 10% are Asian.
In 2003, the Iowa Music Educators Association (IMEA) awarded Storm Lake the Exemplary Music Program of the year.
In 2006, Buena Vista University created a documentary about the Storm Lake music program and its accomplishments called "Notes: A Noteworthy Story of Music." Storm Lake schools also excel in art, speech, and the National History Day competition.
The Storm Lake Police Department (SLPD) provides law enforcement services to the town/city of Storm Lake, Iowa.
Milwaukee Ave., Storm Lake, IA 50588.
These rangers patrol the parks around the lake in the city.
Storm Lake Police Department Storm Lake is served by Buena Vista Regional Medical Center, a 54-bed critical access hospital.
The town/city also hosts Buena Vista County Public Health Department.
Art Cullen, editor and co-owner of the Storm Lake Times, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing, for his 2016 editorials on corporate farming.
The Living Heritage Tree Museum is positioned on the shores of Storm Lake.
Storm Lake was mentioned in an episode amid the second season of M*A*S*H, in which Radar sold shoes from the Style Right Shoe Company.
The fictional business was based in Storm Lake.
In the novelization of the film Star Trek, Storm Lake is the locale of the Shipyard Bar where Nyota Uhura met James T.
Art Cullen, editor of the Storm Lake Times, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.
Skip Carnine (born 1941), retired educator and Storm Lake native; Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Rogers, Arkansas Gene Hackman, Oscar-winning actor resided here in 1945; reference Storm Lake "Breeze" yearbook 1945, 10th undertaking Mac - Cartney (1864-1903), Massachusetts socialist politician, graduate of Storm Lake High School "Storm Lake Comprehensive School Improvement Plan" (PDF).
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