Kirksville, Missouri "Kirksville"
Kirksville .
Kirksville, Missouri Kirksville Square (2004) Kirksville Square (2004) Flag of Kirksville, Missouri Kirksville is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Adair County, Missouri, United States. Located in the Benton Township, its populace was 17,505 at the 2010 census. Kirksville is home to two colleges: Truman State University and A.T.
1.2 Battle of Kirksville Kirksville was laid out in 1841 on a 40-acre (0.06 sq mi; 16.19 ha) site, and was first incorporated in 1857. According to tradition, Jesse Kirk, Kirksville's first postmaster, shared a dinner of turkey and whiskey with surveyors working in the region on the condition that they would name the town after him. Not only the first postmaster, Kirk was also the first to own a hotel and a tavern in Kirksville.
Contrary to prominent belief, the name of the town/city has no connection to John Kirk, onetime president of Truman State University from 1899 to 1925.
Main article: Battle of Kirksville The Battle of Kirksville was fought August 6 9, 1862, amid the American Civil War.
On May 13, 2009, Kirksville was again the victim of a large tornado.
A tornado estimated as an EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita scale hit the northern edge of Kirksville destroying or severely damaging many homes, a several businesses, a car dealership, and at least one factory.
Two inhabitants living just outside the town/city limits were killed by the tornado, and as many as a dozen other region residents were injured. The story and extensive video of the 2009 twister was featured in season 2 of Storm Chasers on the Discovery Channel as well as a 2010 episode of Storm Stories on The Weather Channel.
Harris House, Journal Printing Company Building, Kirksville Courthouse Square Historic District, Drs.
Kirksville is positioned at 40 11 41 N 92 35 00 W (40.1947539, -92.5832496). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 14.43 square miles (37.37 km2), of which, 14.39 square miles (37.27 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) is water. Climate data for Kirksville, Missouri Kirksville anchors a micropolitan region that comprises Adair and Schuyler counties.
As of the census of 2010, there were 17,505 citizens , 6,714 homeholds, and 3,066 families residing in the city.
There were 6,714 homeholds of which 23.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 33.0% were married couples living together, 9.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.1% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 54.3% were non-families.
16.4% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 36% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 19% were from 25 to 44; 17.5% were from 45 to 64; and 11.2% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 16,988 citizens , 6,583 homeholds, and 2,975 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 15.6% under the age of 18, 37.6% from 18 to 24, 20.5% from 25 to 44, 14.4% from 45 to 64, and 12.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 14.4% of families and 30.6% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 20.7% of those under age 18 and 13.1% of those age 65 or over.
By 2015 a number of persons originating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo settled in Kirksville; they first came to the U.S.
Prior to 2015 about half of the 20-25 English as a second language program students in the Kirksville R-III School District were of Hispanic origin, but the wave of Congolese students appeared by 2015, doubling the number of ESOL students and giving it a French-speaking populace not previously present.
Students and faculty from Truman State University took steps to help the Congolese inhabitants acclimate to life in Kirksville. Kirksville City Hall.
Kirksville is a Missouri Third-Class city, operating as a council-manager government.
A paid town/city manager and staff handle the day-to-day operations and report to the town/city council.
Candidates for Kirksville town/city council are not required to have any party affiliation (i.e.
The only requirements are to be at least 21 years of age, a United States citizen, to have lived in the town/city for at least one year before to election, and to not have any outstanding/overdue town/city or county taxes.
The current Kirksville City Council Members are: The town/city of Kirksville provides inhabitants with full-time fire and police departments, along with water, sewer, and street maintenance service.
The town/city of Kirksville partners with other agencies to operate Kirk-Tran, an region bus service, and a county-wide E-911 Center.
Kirksville is home to three establishments of higher learning: Truman State University, originally the North Missouri Normal School and Commercial College, and more recently Northeast Missouri State University.
Still University, home of the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, the beginning osteopathic medical and dental schools.
Moberly Area Community College (MACC) operates a Kirksville campus.
Primary and secondary schools, including Kirksville High School, are directed by the Kirksville R-III School District.
Paired with Ottumwa, Iowa, Kirksville is a media market region, ranked 199 by Nielsen, and home to an ABC/CBS affiliate, KTVO-TV 3.
Kirksville is home to seven chief airways broadcasts.
Radios in Kirksville can also pick up stations from Brookfield, Macon, Moberly, Hannibal-Quincy, and Keokuk, Iowa.
In print, Kirksville is served by the Kirksville Daily Express, Sundays through Fridays, and on Thursdays by the Index, a weekly journal produced by students at Truman State University.
The City of Kirksville operates the Kirksville Regional Airport (formerly Clarence Cannon Airport), four miles (6 km) south of the town/city by the village of Millard.
Kirksville, by way of La Plata, is serviced by Amtrak's Southwest Chief which runs along the BNSF Railway.
The distance from Truman State University to La Plata (Amtrak station) is approximately 12.5 miles (20.1 km).
Kirksville once had two working barns s that ran through town.
The east-west rail line was originally incorporated as the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Railroad, which was retitled a several times amid financial revamping and changing hands various times, until in 1897 it became the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad.
The portion of the line that ran west of Kirksville towards Green City was abandoned and eventually torn down in the early 1950s.
The depot which serviced along the Burlington Northern in Kirksville still stands along Elson Street just north of Cottonwood Street and plans are that it will be renovated.
Kirksville's other barns , the Wabash Railroad, became the Norfolk and Western Railway in October, 1964.
In late September 1997, the tracks through Kirksville were finally torn down leaving the town/city without a rail line.
In 1952, the United States Air Force opened a radar base that was home to the 790th Radar Squadron, an Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, in Sublette, about 10 mi (16 km) north of Kirksville.
The Federal Aviation Administration took over running the radar and most of the encircling 78.51 acres (317,700 m2) were given to Northeast Missouri State University. The current radar, an Air Route Surveillance Radar - Model 3, is a long-range radar that feeds data to air traffic control centers that control airplane flying over the region.
Four fatal aircraft accidents have occurred near Kirksville: On May 6, 1935, a plane carrying Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico crashed south of Kirksville, killing him.
On May 22, 1962, Continental Airlines Flight 11, heading to Kansas City from Chicago under heavy weather, was brought down by a dynamite explosion northwest of Kirksville.
On October 20, 2004, Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 (now Regions - Air) crashed just south of Kirksville Regional Airport, killing 13 of 15 passengers and crew.
On November 5, 2013, a Piper PA-32 crashed 3 miles southeast of Kirksville Regional Airport on its final approach, killing both passengers aboard.
Kirksville is served by two watersheds.
Forrest Lake anchors the Thousand Hills State Park, positioned just west of the town/city and is titled in honor of former Missouri Governor Forrest Smith. Kirksville trash pick-up is presently conducted through the Advanced Disposal of Macon, MO.
Liberty Utilities is the natural gas supplier for the Kirksville area.
Lewis Binford, prominent 20th century archaeologist and anthropologist; retired to Kirksville and died there in 2011.
Anthony Cistaro, actor, born In Kirksville but interval up in California.
Representative (1897 1905), born in Kirksville.
Robert Taylor is another of a several actors who lived in Kirksville.
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) details for Kirksville, Missouri; United States Geological Survey (USGS); October 24, 1980.
Kirksville Daily Express, 2-24-11 The State Historical Society of Missouri.
Kirksville Daily Express, March 20, 1941 The Kirksville Cyclone in 1899 "Average Weather for Kirksville, MO - Temperature and Precipitation".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Kirksville R-III adapts in order to better integrate Congolese students".
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