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The WikiXM 'Story City' platform is your gateway to becoming an active part of our vibrant community, regardless of your age or how long you've called 'Story City' home. It's more than just a news platform; it's a thriving hub where the collective wisdom of every 'Story City' resident converges to ignite discussions, foster learning, and empower one another with knowledge about our beloved town.
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Story City, IA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Story City a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Story City Home page. The Story City Home page provides as much information as possible on Story City. Knowing Story City’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Story City’s Home page, you will also find Story City’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Story City has a population of 3362. 46.2% of Story City’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.8 are female. 50% of Story City is married and 69.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $142,573, and the average rent is $801. Household median income in Story City is $58,155, and the individual median income is $33,864. Story City’s Ethnic is the following: White(97.3%), Hispanic(1.6%), Multiple(1.3%), Asian(1%), Black(0.4%).
Story City was known as Fairview throughout much of its early history. The named changed in 1881 when the town established a post office and discovered that the Fairview name was already in use for another town. Story City was renamed after Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story. The boundaries of "Old Fairview" are outlined by signs during Scandinavian Days, and is approximately in the northeast corner of current Story City with the southern boundary being Broad Street. Story City was laid out including Fairview in 1878, and officially incorporated in 1881.
The railroad arrived in 1878 and connected the city to Ames by the narrow-gauge Des Moines & Minnesota and to Des Moines via the Chicago and North Western Railroad in Ames. The city has deep historic and cultural ties to the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Sweden, and mostly Norway. A large contingent of the city's current population is descended from a major immigration of people from Nordic countries in the 1840s through 1860s.
It is evident in the large number of Lutheran churches in the community with ministers historically delivering sermons in different languages (Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian) respective of the makeup of their congregations.
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