Nevada, Iowa

Nevada, Iowa
Coordonate: 42°1′9″N 93°27′6″V
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Nevada (pronunție AFI, |n|ə|ˈ|v|eɪ|d|ə ) este o localitate, o municipalitate, un oraș și sediul comitatului Story, statul Iowa, Statele Unite ale Americii. ^GR6

Conform datelor furnizate de United States Census Bureau, populația localității fusese de 6.798 locuitori la data recensământului din anul 2010, în ușoară creștere da la 6.658 de locuitori, care fuseseră înregistrați anterior cu zece ani, Census 2000.

Nevada este parte zonei metropolitane Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area, care la rândul său este parte a mai largei Ames - Boone Combined Statistical Area. La doar 13 km (sau opt mile) la vest de Nevada, se găsesc Ames și Iowa State University, care prezintă o acumulare mai largă de populație.

Nontheless, Nevada is the county seat with all Story County offices located here. The city's name is pronounced differently from the state of the same name.

Istoric

Downtown Nevada

The city was founded October 12, 1853 by Johnson Edgar of Jasper County by appointment of the Iowa Legislature to find the county seat of Story County. Its name, "Nevada," was proposed by Joseph Thrift after the Sierra Nevada mountains. The city was named a decade before the state received a similar name.

The city was originally surveyed at 49 blocks in a square. This plat of 7 by 7 blocks had six east-west streets and six north-south streets. The east-west streets were named:

• Sixth Street (northern-most street)
• Fifth Street
• Fourth Street
• Third Street
• Second Street
• First Street (southern-most street)

And the north-south streets were named:

• Sycamore Street (western-most street)
• Walnut Street
• Chestnut Street
• Main Street
• Lynn Street
• Oak Street (eastern-most street)

The original block numbers were:

7	6	5	4	3	2	1
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
21	20	19	18	17	16	15
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
35	34	33	32	31	30	29
36	37	38	39	40	41	42
49	48	47	46	45	44	44

Geografie

Nevada's longitude and latitude coordinates in decimal form are 42.019152, -93.451775. ^GR1

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.2 square miles (10.9 km²), of which, 4.2 square miles (10.8 km²) of it is land and 0.24% is water.

Demografie

Nevada's Population History
Recensământ	Populație		% ±
1860	350		—
1870	982		180.6%
1880	1,541		−99.8%
1890	1,662		7.9%
1900	2,472		48.7%
1910	2,138		−13.5%
1920	2,668		24.8%
1930	3,133		17.4%
1940	3,353		7.0%
1950	3,763		12.2%
1960	4,227		12.3%
1970	4,952		17.2%
1980	5,912		19.4%
1990	6,009		1.6%
2000	6,658		10.8%
2010	6,798		2.1%
Iowa Data Center

Legături externe

• City of Nevada website
• City-Data Comprehensive Statistical Data and more about Nevada