Waterloo, Iowa Waterloo, Iowa East Side of Downtown Waterloo Location in the State of Iowa Location in the State of Iowa Waterloo, Iowa is positioned in the US Waterloo, Iowa - Waterloo, Iowa Waterloo is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2010 United States Enumeration the populace decreased by 0.5% to 68,406; a recent 2014 Enumeration estimates the populace at 68,364, making it the sixth-largest town/city in the state. Waterloo is part of the Waterloo Cedar Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the more crowded of the two cities.
West Fourth Street in Waterloo, 1910 4.2 Waterloo Center for the Arts Waterloo was originally known as Prairie Rapids Crossing.
On December 8, 1845 the Iowa State Register and Waterloo Herald was the first journal presented in Waterloo. The name "Waterloo" supplanted the initial name, "Prairie Rapids Crossing," shortly after Charles Mullan petitioned for a postal service in the town.
During this reconstructionthe Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Company moved to Waterloo and shortly after, the Rath Packing Company moved from Dubuque.
Carroll was then taken to Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo, where he died shortly after.
Waterloo suffered especially in the agricultural recession of the 1980s, due to the primary employers at the time being heavily rooted in agriculture.
It is estimated Waterloo lost 14% of its populace during this time. Today the town/city appreciates a broader industrialized base, as town/city leaders have sought to diversify the industrialized and commercial mix.
In 1910 a momentous number of black barns workers were brought in as strikebreakers to the Waterloo area. Black workers were relegated to 20 square blocks in Waterloo, an region which remains the 'East' side to this day. In 1940, more black strikebreakers were brought in to work in the Rath meat plant. In 1948 a black strikebreaker accidentally killed a white union member as he tried to escape the striker's ire.
United Packinghouse Workers of America became the chief union of the Rath Company, welcoming in black workers. However, United Auto Workers Local 838 continued to refuse black members With the power of the union, Anna Mae Weems, Ada Treadwell, Charles Pearson and Jimmy Porter formed an anti-discrimination department at Rath by the 1950s.
Porter would go on to organize the first black airways broadcast in Waterloo, KBBG, in 1978. Weems became the head of the anti-discrimination department and small-town NAACP chapter. On June 4, Weems led a march on town/city hall to encourage investigation into his death. The march led to the creation of the Waterloo Human Rights Commission, which lasted only a year due to lack of funding. 7, 1967, a town/city report titled "Waterloo's Unfinished Business" was released. The report veiled the ongoing enigma in housing, education and employment faced by the black improve of Waterloo.
The report confirmed the housing bias faced by black residents, that many of the schools were generally 80% of one race, and that 80% of black inhabitants held service jobs. In a 2007 article, the Courier veiled some shifts in the 40 years since.
The Iowa Supreme Court had outlawed school segregation in 1868. A 1967 commission found most schools were still segregated and recommended immediate desegregation, which Mayor Lloyd Turner opposed. In 1969 the Waterloo school board voted to allow open enrollment in all their schools to encourage integration.
A federal government program trained 1,200 small-town youths with the promise of summer jobs, only to hire two as bricklayers. Starting in the summer months of 1966, Waterloo was subject to riots over race relations between the white improve and the black community.
Many white inhabitants expressed confusion as to why riots were occurring in Waterloo, while younger black inhabitants felt they were being treated unfairly, as their conditions seemed worse than their white neighbors. In 1967 the black populace of Waterloo was equivalent to 8%, and as stated to the Courier, had a 4% unemployment rate. Yet despite being a northern city, Waterloo was unofficially segregated at the time, as 95% of its black populace lived in 'East' Waterloo. While the white improve felt East High was 'integrated' with a 45% black student body, the black improve pointed out the elementary school in 'East' Waterloo had only one white pupil.
On Sep 13, 1968, amid an East High School football team, the police attempted arrest of a black youth. The man resisted arrest, drawing consideration of students in the stands.
Black students fought and argued with the police, to which police responded by using clubs and mace. The brawl continued into the East side of Waterloo, starting a fire that claimed a lumber foundry and three homes.
In 2003 Governor Vilsack created a task force to try to close the ethnic achievement gap in Waterloo. In 2009 a fair housing report titled "Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice" compiled by Mullin & Lonergan Associates Inc., found Waterloo to be the most segregated town/city in Iowa "Historical patterns of ethnic segregation persist in Waterloo, of the 20 metros/cities in Iowa with populations exceeding 25,000, Waterloo rates as the most segregated." Many activists who partook in the initial protests feel Waterloo has remained the same. In 2015 Huffpost listed Waterloo as the 10th worst town/city for black Americans. The site noted black inhabitants have a 24% unemployment rate in the town/city compared with 3.9% for whites, giving Waterloo one of the highest black unemployment rates in the article compared to other Midwest cities. Waterloo still has a higher percentage of blacks compared to most other metros/cities in Iowa. June 2008 saw the worst flooding the Waterloo Cedar Falls region had ever recorded; other primary floods include the Great Flood of 1993.
For those areas not protected by the system, the Cedar River poured out of its banks and into parking lots, back yards and athwart the rich Iowa farmland encircling the city.
In September 2016, flood watches and warnings were put in affect for the town/city of Waterloo and its encircling cities.
Location of Waterloo, Iowa According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 63.23 square miles (163.76 km2), of which 61.39 square miles (159.00 km2) is territory and 1.84 square miles (4.77 km2) is water. The average altitude of Waterloo is 846 feet above sea level.
Waterloo has a humid continental climate zone (Koppen classification Dfa), typical of the state of Iowa, and is part of USDA Plant Hardiness zone 5a. The normal monthly mean temperature ranges from 18.5 F ( 7.5 C) in January to 73.6 F (23.1 C) in July.
Climate data for Waterloo Regional Airport, Iowa (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1895 present) Waterloo is next to Cedar Falls, home to the University of Northern Iowa.
The biggest employers in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls MSA, as stated to the Greater Cedar Valley Alliance, as of June 2016 include (in order): John Deere, Tyson Fresh Meats, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, Unity - Point Health, the University of Northern Iowa, Hy - Vee Food Stores, Waterloo Community Schools, Target Regional Distribution Center, CBE Companies, Inc., City of Waterloo, Bertch Cabinet Manufacturing.
Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area (SSNHA) preserves and tells the story of American agriculture and its global significance through partnerships and activities that jubilate the land, citizens , and communities of the area.
Waterloo Partner Sites include The Waterloo Center for the Arts & The Grout Museum.
The Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area Office is positioned in the Fowler Building, Suite 2, 604 Lafayette Street in Waterloo. Waterloo Center for the Arts The Waterloo Center for the Arts (WCA) is a county-wide center for visual and performance arts.
The WCA is owned and directed by the City of Waterloo with supervision by the advisory Waterloo Cultural and Arts Commission.
The Center is positioned at 225 Commercial Street in Waterloo.
It is also an anchor for the Waterloo Cultural and Arts District (a State of Iowa designation). The permanent compilation at the WCA includes artwork featuring the biggest compilation of Haitian Art in the country, Midwest Regionalist Art (including works by Grant Wood & Thomas Hart Benton), Mexican Folk Art, International Folk Art, American Decorative Arts, and Public Art. The WCA also homes the Waterloo Community Playhouse, the earliest improve theatre in Iowa operating since 1916, and the Black Hawk Children's Theatre started in 1982.
Grout Museum District sign Waterloo IA pic1.JPG 3rd Street in Waterloo, Iowa.
The home was once used as the Waterloo Woman's Club.
Waterloo has one central enhance library.
The library is governed by a board of trustees, impel by the town/city mayor and confirmed by the town/city council: Ivy Hagedorn, Jan Hahn, Kathleen Wernimont and John Berry. The library is directed by Steven P.
The Waterloo Public Library is positioned in a renovated Great Depression era building that served as a postal service and federal building.
The building was renovated in the late 1970s for use as a library. In 2011, the Waterloo Public Library jubilates 30 years at its current Commercial Street location.
The 2015 film Carol uses Waterloo for a primary plot point of the film. Waterloo Police Department Waterloo is administered by the mayor and council fitness of government.
One council member is propel from each of Waterloo's five wards, and two are propel at-large.
The current mayor is Quentin Hart, Waterloo's first Black Mayor, his predecessor was Buck Clark.
Hawkeye Community College is positioned in Waterloo.
Neighboring Cedar Falls is home to the University of Northern Iowa.
The three enhance high schools in the town/city are Waterloo West High School, Waterloo East High School, and Expo High School.
West's school mascot is the "Wahawk", a contraction of Waterloo and Black Hawk (the town/city and county names), and its colors are old rose and black.
East's school mascot is the "Trojan", a warrior from the ancient town/city Troy, and its colors are orange and black.
Waterloo's only private high school is Columbus Catholic High School, which is supported by the Catholic churches of Waterloo and Cedar Falls.
7 KWWL 7 (NBC, This TV on DT2, Me-TV on DT3) Located in Waterloo 12 KIIN 12 (PBS/IPTV) Located in Iowa City 20 KWKB 20 (The CW) Located in Iowa City Waterloo is positioned at the north end of Interstate 380.
The Avenue of the Saints runs through Waterloo.
American Airlines provides non-stop air service to and from Chicago from the Waterloo Regional Airport as of April 3, 2012.
Waterloo is served by a urbane bus fitness (MET).
MET serves most areas of Cedar Falls and Waterloo.
Most routes meet at the central bus station in downtown Waterloo.
During the week the earliest bus is at 5:45 am from downtown Waterloo and the last bus arriving downtown at 6:40 pm.
Waterloo is served by one daily intercity bus arrival and departure to Chicago and Des Moines.
There are presently five taxi operators in Waterloo and Cedar Falls.
The Chicago Central barns runs through Waterloo.
The Mid - American Energy Company supplies the Waterloo inhabitants and businesses with electricity and natural gas.
The Waterloo Water Works supplies potable water with a capacity of 50,400,000 GPD (gallons per day) with an average use of 13,400,000 GPD and a peak use of 28,800,000 GPD.
News reports indicate that 18.5% of the system's output in 2013, or 851 million gallons, was unaccounted for. Sanitation service (sewage) is directed by the town/city of Waterloo with a capacity of 36,500,000 GPD and an average use of 14,000,000 GPD. Waterloo is home to two hospitals, Covenant Medical Center, which has 366 beds, and Allen Memorial Hospital with 234 beds.
Allan Carpenter (born 1917), author of over 150 books relationship to Waterloo Anesa Kajtazovic, Iowa State Representative, youngest woman propel to Iowa Legislature and first Bosnian American member of the council Kelly (1878 1959), architect relationship to Waterloo Poet Laureate; born in Waterloo Waterloo, Iowa is twinned with: a b "American Fact - Finder".
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