38 Facts About Dubuque

Dubuque is the county seat of Dubuque County, Iowa, located along the Mississippi River.

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

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

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

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

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Dubuque 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.

Just two years later, the company was the largest employer in Dubuque, 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 was one of the 100 largest urban areas in the United States.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dubuque 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 Theological Seminary, with the Presbyterian Church USA, and the Wartburg Theological Seminary, with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dubuque is the health care center of a large region covering eastern Iowa, northwestern Illinois, and southwestern Wisconsin.

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

Dubuque is served by four US Highways and one state highway.

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

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

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

Dubuque 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 Thunderbirds replaced the Fighting Saints playing in the Tier III Junior A Central States Hockey League at the Five Flags Center.

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

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