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2,118
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$59,926
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America/Chicago
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Mediapolis, IA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Mediapolis a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Mediapolis Home page. The Mediapolis Home page provides as much information as possible on Mediapolis. Knowing Mediapolis’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Mediapolis’s Home page, you will also find Mediapolis’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Mediapolis has a population of 2118. 47.5% of Mediapolis’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.5 are female. 53.6% of Mediapolis is married and 76.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $138,078, and the average rent is $760. Household median income in Mediapolis is $59,926, and the individual median income is $34,271. Mediapolis’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.4%), Hispanic(4%), Multiple(3.2%), Asian(0.2%), Native(0.1%).
Mediapolis was founded in the year 1869. It was first a train station for the city of Kossuth, Iowa at a point on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railway (later part of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific) between Burlington and Wapello. Media, meaning "middle," was appended to polis, meaning "village," as Mediapolis is halfway between Wapello and Burlington.From 1875 to the mid 20th century, Mediapolis was a railroad junction where the Burlington and Northwestern Railway to Washington (later a branch of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy) met the original north-south line. The Rock Island Railroad ceased operation in 1980, leading to the abandonment of the north-south line through Mediapolis.
One heavy industry remains two miles southwest of town, the United States Gypsum Sperry mine. This is a shaft mine 620 feet deep, opened in 1961 and employing approximately 200 people as of 2010. Of these, only 25 to 50 actually work in the mine. Underground, the mine extends 1.5 miles west and 1.75 miles south of the shaft.
This is a room and pillar mine with 37-foot pillars separating roads 37 feet wide on a square grid.On August 10, 1998, former NFL running back Tony Baker was killed on U.S. Route 61, just south of Mediapolis.
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