38 Facts About Dubuque Iowa

Dubuque Iowa is a tourist destination featuring the city's unique architecture and river location.

Dubuque Iowa has long been a center of manufacturing, the local economy has diversified to other areas in the 21st century.

Control of Louisiana and Dubuque Iowa's mines shifted briefly back to France in 1800, then to the United States in 1803, following the Louisiana Purchase.

Current City of Dubuque Iowa was named after Julien Dubuque Iowa, settled at the southern end of a large flat plain adjacent to the Mississippi River.

Dubuque Iowa became a center for the timber industry because of its proximity to forests in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and was later dominated by various millworking businesses.

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Just two years later, the company was the largest employer in Dubuque Iowa, putting 78 people to work, 75 of whom worked at the shipyard earning their collective $800–$1, 000 per week in wages.

Between 1860 and 1880, Dubuque Iowa was one of the 100 largest urban areas in the United States.

Early in the 20th century, Dubuque Iowa was one of several sites of a brass era automobile company, Adams-Farwell; like most others, it folded.

Subsequently, Dubuque Iowa grew significantly, and industrial activity remained its economic mainstay until the 1980s.

Downtown Dubuque Iowa contains the city's central business district and many of its government and cultural institutions.

Irish culture in Dubuque Iowa revolves around the city's Irish Catholic churches, St Columbkille's, St Patrick's, and St Raphael's Cathedral.

Dubuque Iowa's West End is a large, mostly suburban area settled almost entirely after the Second World War.

Dubuque Iowa has a humid continental climate, which gives it four distinct seasons.

Dubuque Iowa is the primary city in the Dubuque Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The Dubuque area is the general area encompassing Dubuque, Iowa.

The official population of the Dubuque Iowa County was 93, 653 as of the 2010 population estimates.

Since its founding, Dubuque Iowa has had, and continues to have, a strong religious tradition.

Many important Catholic religious leaders have lived in Dubuque Iowa, including its first bishop, Mathias Loras; Fr Samuel Mazzuchelli, OP; Clement Smyth; and Mother Mary Frances Clarke, BVM.

Dubuque Iowa is home to three theological seminaries: St Pius X Seminary, a minor seminary for Catholic men discerning a call to ordained priesthood, the University of Dubuque Iowa Theological Seminary, with the Presbyterian Church USA, and the Wartburg Theological Seminary, with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Many years, Dubuque Iowa's economy was centered on manufacturing companies such as Deere and Company and Flexsteel Industries.

City of Dubuque Iowa operates on the council-manager form of government, employing a full-time city manager and part-time city council.

Dubuque Iowa has been using its city-owned Community Broadband Network to become a smart city.

However, Dubuque Iowa has been reaching the limits of its network and lack sufficient services from giant providers.

Dubuque, and all of Iowa are represented by U S Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst.

At times, Dubuque was called "The State of Dubuque" because the political climate in Dubuque was very different from the rest of Iowa.

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Public high schools in Dubuque Iowa include Dubuque Iowa Senior High School and Hempstead High School.

Dubuque Iowa has one Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod affiliated elementary school, the Dubuque Iowa Lutheran School.

Dubuque Iowa is home to a large number of higher education institutions.

Protestant colleges in the city include the University of Dubuque Iowa, which is associated with the Presbyterian Church, and Emmaus Bible College, connected with the Plymouth Brethren movement.

Mercy Medical Center - Dubuque is the largest hospital in the city with 263 beds, and one of only three in Iowa to achieve "Magnet Hospital" status.

Dubuque Iowa's other hospital is The Finley Hospital, which is a member of UnityPoint Health's network of hospitals.

Dubuque Iowa has four-lane, divided highway connections with Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Madison, and Waterloo.

Dubuque Iowa has several buildings on the National Register of Historic Places:.

Dubuque Iowa has a number of notable parks, particularly Eagle Point Park and the Mines of Spain State Recreation Area.

Dubuque Iowa was home to the original Fighting Saints team from 1980 to 2001, when the team relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma.

From 2001 to 2010, the Dubuque Iowa Thunderbirds replaced the Fighting Saints playing in the Tier III Junior A Central States Hockey League at the Five Flags Center.

Dubuque Iowa-based TV news is on KWWL-TV7, and KCRG-TV9 (Cedar Rapids); both operate news bureaus in the city and cover most of its major stories.

Dubuque Iowa has received a number of awards and recognition for its redevelopment this century.