Burlington is a city in, and the
county seat
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of,
Des Moines County
Des Moines County is located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 38,910. The county seat and largest city is Burlington, Iowa, Burlington. It is one of Iowa's two original counties alo ...
,
Iowa
Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to th ...
, United States.
The population was 23,982 in the
2020 census, a decline from the 26,839 population in
2000
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.
Burlington is the center of a
micropolitan area, which includes
West Burlington and
Middletown, Iowa
Middletown is a city in Des Moines County, Iowa, United States. The population was 363 at the time of the 2020 census. It is part of the Burlington, IA– IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Middletown was laid out in 1846. In 1940, t ...
, and
Gulfport, Illinois
Gulfport is a village in Henderson County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 54, down from 207 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Burlington, IA–IL Micropolitan Statistical Area. The village wa ...
. Burlington is the home of
Snake Alley, the most crooked street.
History
Prior to European settlement, the area was neutral territory for the
Sac and
Fox
Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or ''brush'').
Twelve sp ...
Native American tribes, who called it Shoquoquon (''Shok-ko-kon''), meaning Flint Hills.
In 1803, President
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was previously the natio ...
organized two parties of explorers to map the
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (french: Vente de la Louisiane, translation=Sale of Louisiana) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or app ...
. The
Lewis and Clark Expedition
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followed the
Missouri River, while
Lt. Zebulon Pike followed the
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it fl ...
. In 1805, Pike landed at the bluffs below Burlington and raised the
United States Flag
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for the first time on what would become Iowa soil and recommended construction of a fort. The recommendation went unheeded.
![Burlington IA Barber 1865p525 cropped](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Burlington_IA_Barber_1865p525_cropped.jpg)
The
American Fur Company of
John Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor (born Johann Jakob Astor; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848) was a German-American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor who made his fortune mainly in a fur trade monopoly, by History of opium in China, smuggl ...
established a post in the area in 1829. Settlement began in 1833, shortly after the
Black Hawk Purchase
The Black Hawk Purchase, also known as the Forty-Mile Strip or Scott's Purchase, extended along the West side of the Mississippi River from the north boundary of Missouri North to the Upper Iowa River in the northeast corner of Iowa. It was fif ...
, when Samuel (aka Simpson) White, Amzi Doolitle, and
Morton M. McCarver
"General" Morton Matthew McCarver (January 14, 1807 – April 17, 1875) was an American politician and pioneer in the West. A native of Kentucky, he helped found cities in Iowa, Oregon, and Washington while also involved in the early governmen ...
crossed the
Mississippi River
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from Big Island and staked claims there.
According to an account A.T. Andreas wrote in 1875, White erected a cabin in the area later platted to be Front Street between Court and High streets. Andreas called White and Doolittle the
Romulus and Remus of their settlement, referring to the mythic heroes who founded Rome, a city surrounded by hills. A few weeks later, William R. Ross joined them and established a general store. In November and December, he surveyed the settlement for White and Doolittle.
In the spring of 1834 they allowed John Gray, who purchased the first lot with his wife Eliza Jane, to rename the town for $50. Gray chose to name it Burlington in honor of his
hometown in Vermont. The Grays' daughter Abigail was born in Burlington that same year, the first European-descended American settler child born on Iowa soil.
In 1837, Burlington was designated the second territorial capital of the
Wisconsin Territory
The Territory of Wisconsin was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 3, 1836, until May 29, 1848, when an eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin. Belmont was ...
. The
Iowa Territory
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was organized in the following year, and Burlington was named as its first territorial capital. The government used "Old Zion," the first Methodist Church in Iowa (located near what is now Third and Washington streets), to conduct its business. A
historical marker
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commemorates the site of the church and early territorial government.
On May 22, 1849, Maj. William Williams visited Burlington, writing a brief description in his journal:
![Lady Liberty of Burlington](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Lady_Liberty_of_Burlington.jpg)
In April 1885, economist
Henry George
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He inspired the eco ...
gave a speech titled "The Crime of Poverty" at the Burlington
Knights of Labor
Knights of Labor (K of L), officially Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was an American labor federation active in the late 19th century, especially the 1880s. It operated in the United States as well in Canada, and had chapters also ...
local
Local may refer to:
Geography and transportation
* Local (train), a train serving local traffic demand
* Local, Missouri, a community in the United States
* Local government, a form of public administration, usually the lowest tier of administrat ...
advocating for a
citizen's dividend paid for by a
land value tax
A land value tax (LVT) is a levy on the value of land (economics), land without regard to buildings, personal property and other land improvement, improvements. It is also known as a location value tax, a point valuation tax, a site valuation ta ...
.
Iowa's nickname, "
The Hawkeye State
Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wiscon ...
," has its roots in Burlington. At Judge David Rorer's suggestion, publisher James G. Edwards changed ''The Iowa Patriot'' newspaper's name to ''The Hawk-Eye and Iowa Patriot'' in tribute to his friend, Chief
Black Hawk. Rorer is said to have found the name in
James Fenimore Cooper's ''
The Last of the Mohicans
''The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757'' is a historical romance written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826.
It is the second book of the ''Leatherstocking Tales'' pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. '' The Pathfinder ...
,'' but Edwards proposed the nickname to "...rescue from oblivion a momento , at least of the name of the old chief."
Burlington was a bustling river port in the
steamboat era and a central city to the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The "Burlington Route" (1848–1970) merged into the
Burlington Northern Railroad (1970–1996), which in turn merged into the
BNSF Railway (1997–present). The "Burlington" name has been given to one of the United States' largest railroads. One of BNSF's main east-west lines, the Ottumwa subdivision, still crosses the Mississippi at Burlington.
In the late twentieth century, retail expanded with suburbanization of the population. After purchasing Benner Tea,
Aldi
Aldi (stylised as ALDI) is the common company brand name of two German multinational family-owned discount supermarket chains operating over 10,000 stores in 20 countries. The chain was founded by brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946, when ...
opened its first store in the United States at Burlington in 1976.
Westland Mall opened in nearby
West Burlington in 1977.
Geography
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water.
Climate
Demographics
2010 census
As of the
2010 census,
there were 25,663 people, 10,938 households, and 6,693 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 11,899 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 81.2%
White
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, 14.2%
African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...
, 0.3%
Native American, 0.8%
Asian
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* Items from or related to the continent of Asia:
** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia
** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia
** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...
, 0.1%
Pacific Islander
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, 0.7% from
other races
Other often refers to:
* Other (philosophy), a concept in psychology and philosophy
Other or The Other may also refer to:
Film and television
* ''The Other'' (1913 film), a German silent film directed by Max Mack
* ''The Other'' (1930 film), a ...
, and 2.9% from two or more races.
Hispanic
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The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties forme ...
or
Latino
Latino or Latinos most often refers to:
* Latino (demonym), a term used in the United States for people with cultural ties to Latin America
* Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
* The people or cultures of Latin America;
** Latin A ...
of any race were 3.1% of the population.
There were 10,938 households, of which 29.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.9% were married couples living together, 14.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 38.8% were non-families. 32.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.30 and the average family size was 2.89.
The median age in the city was 39.7 years. 23.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.6% were from 25 to 44; 26.5% were from 45 to 64; and 17.4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.1% male and 51.9% female.
2000 census
As of the
2000 census,
there were 26,839 people, 11,102 households, and 7,105 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 11,985 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 86.6%
White
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, 10.0%
African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...
, 0.33%
Native American, 0.66%
Asian
Asian may refer to:
* Items from or related to the continent of Asia:
** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia
** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia
** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...
, 0.04%
Pacific Islander
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, 0.90% from
other races
Other often refers to:
* Other (philosophy), a concept in psychology and philosophy
Other or The Other may also refer to:
Film and television
* ''The Other'' (1913 film), a German silent film directed by Max Mack
* ''The Other'' (1930 film), a ...
, and 1.43% from two or more races.
Hispanic
The term ''Hispanic'' ( es, hispano) refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad.
The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties forme ...
or
Latino
Latino or Latinos most often refers to:
* Latino (demonym), a term used in the United States for people with cultural ties to Latin America
* Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
* The people or cultures of Latin America;
** Latin A ...
of any race were 2.06% of the population.
There were 11,102 households, out of which 29.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.2% were married couples living together, 12.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.0% were non-families. 31.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 4.94.
Age spread: 24.5% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 17.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.2 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $33,770, and the median income for a family was $40,912. Males had a median income of $33,238 versus $23,003 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,450. About 10.0% of families and 12.6% of the population was below the poverty line, including 20.9% of those under age 18 and 8.9% of those age 65 or over.
Economy
Burlington's roots are in transportation and manufacturing. Manufacturing plants are among the largest employers in the area, including companies such as
American Ordnance LLC,
Case Corporation
The Case Corporation was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery and construction equipment. Founded, in 1842, by Jerome Increase Case as the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, it operated under that name for most of a century. For anot ...
, ABB (formerly
General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable en ...
),
Champion Spark Plugs,
Shearer's Foods
Shearer's Foods, LLC is a U.S. manufacturer and distributor of snack foods. Founded in 1974 as Shearer's Snacks, it is headquartered in Brewster, Ohio.
With more than 3,400 employees across eight facilities, the company manufactures, warehouses, ...
and Winegard Company. The largest employer in the area is the Great River Medical Center. Among the oldest businesses in Burlington, the Murray factory (now Murray Turbomachinery and owned by
Dresser-Rand
Dresser-Rand is an American engineering and manufacturing company owned by Siemens Energy. The company designs, manufactures, and services equipment used in the extraction of petroleum and natural gas. The company was formed in 1986 as a joint v ...
) which has been in operation in Burlington since before 1900, the original building on Central St. and Washington St. which was divided by the local train tracks, was recently razed. Another long-lived business is
Case Corporation
The Case Corporation was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery and construction equipment. Founded, in 1842, by Jerome Increase Case as the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, it operated under that name for most of a century. For anot ...
, which has been at its current location on Des Moines Avenue, approximately a quarter-mile from the Mississippi River, since 1937. The first backhoes rolled off the assembly line at the Burlington plant in 1957, which is now the only plant in the United States that produces the Case
Loader/Backhoe, giving Burlington the nickname "''Backhoe Capital of the World''." Case is now a division of the Italian holding group
CNH Industrial
CNH Industrial N.V. is an Italian-American multinational corporation with global headquarters in Basildon, United Kingdom, but controlled and mostly owned by the multinational investment company Exor, which in turn is controlled by the Agnelli ...
. Employment at Case peaked in the 1980s, according to the
Des Moines Register
''The Des Moines Register'' is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa.
History Early period
The first newspaper in Des Moines was the ''Iowa Star''. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin by the junctio ...
, then declined after "Case initiated a wave of buyouts and early retirements in the 1990s and early 2000s, and ended the contract with the union in 2004"; but in May 2010, the ''Register'' reports, Case announced that "it will open a new line that builds corn-picker heads for combines, as early as
pring, 2012 and that by mid-2013 it will add more than 200 positions.
Over the last several years, several businesses have either left the area or relocated elsewhere. These businesses include
Exide
Exide was originally a brand name for batteries produced by The Electric Storage Battery Company and later became Exide Corporation doing business as Exide Technologies, an American multinational lead-acid batteries manufacturing company. It ...
, makers of vehicle batteries,
CAT
The cat (''Felis catus'') is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae and is commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat to distinguish it from the wild members of ...
, Case Corporation's closest competitor in American made construction equipment, and Lehigh-Leopold, makers of office furniture. This has left some former manufacturing plants around the city empty, but other businesses have moved into them;
PPG, maker of auto safety glass has moved into the former CAT plant, and a warehouse has moved into the former Leopold building. In March 2012, the ''Des Moines Register'' reported that "Unemployment here is 7.6 percent, compared with the 5.4 percent state average".
Downtown Burlington
![Capitol Theater - Burlington Iowa](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Capitol_Theater_-_Burlington_Iowa.jpg)
The downtown area holds a number of buildings listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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, among them the Burlington Apartments (listed as the Hotel Burlington), the Burlington Railroad Depot, the Des Moines County Courthouse, the Burlington Fire Department central station, the Port of Burlington building, Memorial Auditorium, River Park Place (as Burlington Mercy Hospital), the former Burlington Police Department building. It is perhaps best known for Snake Alley, the most crooked street in the US. (as Burlington Paper Company),
The Capitol Theater,
First Congregational Church,
St. Paul's Catholic Church and several others. The downtown skyline is noted for its several church spires.
Sports
![SnakeAlley BurlingtonIA](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/SnakeAlley_BurlingtonIA.jpg)
Burlington is the home of the
Burlington Bees
The Burlington Bees are a collegiate summer baseball team of the Prospect League. They are located in Burlington, Iowa, and have played their home games at Community Field since 1947. Founded in 1889, the Bees played in Minor League Baseball' ...
baseball team, a member of the
Prospect League, a
collegiate summer baseball league. They were previously members of
Minor League Baseball's
Class A Midwest League
The Midwest League is a Minor League Baseball league established in 1947 and based in the Midwestern United States. A Class A league for most of its history, the league was promoted to High-A as part of Major League Baseball's 2021 reorganizat ...
until
Major League Baseball
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's reorganization of the minor leagues after the 2020 season. The Bees play at
Community Field, which underwent extensive renovation in 2005.
Burlington hosts the
Snake Alley Criterium
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Overview
Race length can be determined by a number of laps or total time, ...
, one of the most physically challenging races in the Midwest. The annual event is held on a 15-block course, with differences in elevation from 555 feet to 678 feet. The course is entirely on city streets, mostly in the downtown commercial area. A one-block-long climb is on the historic brick street named Snake Alley. The 276-foot-long Snake Alley has five switchbacks in a 60-foot climb. The average grade is 12.5 percent in that one block.
Twice, Burlington has been the finishing point for
RAGBRAI
RAGBRAI is an acronym and registered trademark for the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, which is a non-competitive bicycle ride organized by ''The Des Moines Register.'' The course runs across the state of Iowa from west to east ...
, the annual bicycle ride that starts at the
Missouri River in western Iowa and ends in eastern Iowa at the
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it fl ...
.
Burlington is also the home of the Burlington High School and Notre Dame High School sports teams. Also in the Burlington area are the sports teams of Southeastern Community College, which have had a successful history, including three men's basketball national championships.
Education
Burlington is served by the
Burlington Community School District, which has five elementary schools, one intermediate school, one middle school, one
high school
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and one
alternative high school
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. Private education is also available for kindergarten through 12th grade at
Notre Dame Catholic School
Notre Dame RC School is a Roman Catholic school for girls in Derriford, Plymouth, England. Its sister school is St Boniface's Catholic College.
The former headteacher, Fiona Hutchings, was headteacher from 2001 until July 2012. Kate White, the ...
and
Great River Christian School (GRCS).
In 1833 the first school facility for Burlington opened in a log cabin. School District No. 2 of the Township of Burlington was established on March 29, 1849.
The Burlington School District has five elementary schools: North Hill, Sunnyside, Grimes, Corse and Black Hawk. All are new buildings or have been recently completely rehabilitated, the newest, North Hill Elementary, received its first students in 2009, there are no elementary school buildings within the school district that are over 40 years old. The district has two middle schools: Edward Stone and Aldo Leopold. Beginning with the 2010–11 school year, students who had attended Oak Street Middle School (an aging building that was completed around 1907) began attending Aldo Leopold (named in honor of ecologist, and environmentalist,
Aldo Leopold, a former resident of Burlington, and author of "''
A Sand County Almanac
''A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There'' is a 1949 non-fiction book by American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist Aldo Leopold. Describing the land around the author's home in Sauk County, Wisconsin, the collection of essa ...
''"), the new school building is located near the corner of Sunnyside Avenue, and Roosevelt Avenue. Edward Stone, which opened at the start of the 2012–13 school year, is located near the corner of Lawrence Drive and Mason Road. The middle school was named in honor of former JPL head, and Burlington educated
Dr. Edward Stone. This building replaced the James Madison Middle School building, which has only been in the system since the mid-1960s. These two new middle schools were built to accommodate more students after a third building, Horace Mann, was gutted by fire in 2005.
Burlington Community High School was constructed in 1968, and occupied the following year, with the first graduating class in June 1970. Prior to that, the high school students were educated at the former Apollo High School building located near the downtown business district; the building is still standing and for a time served as Burlington Alternative High School, but has been unoccupied since 1996. Notre Dame High School and Elementary schools occupy a building near the Burlington high school. Great River Christian Schools occupies the old Prospect Hill Elementary School building, 426 Harrison St. A third middle school building once existed on the edge of Perkins Park, named Horace Mann, that building was gutted by fire in 2005, and later razed. The school district offices are located near the corner of West Avenue, and White Street, in a large mansion once owned by Railroad tycoon
Charles Elliott Perkins, and is nicknamed "''The White House''," due to the whitewashed facade. The original High School building (which now serves as the School District Maintenance shops) is noted as being the first high school built west of the Mississippi River.
Burlington is also served by
Southeastern Community College.
Burlington Public Library serves the community.
Media
Burlington, Iowa is served by the following local media outlets:
; Newspaper
*The Burlington Beacon is a community-focused local newspaper covering Des Moines County and southeast Iowa.
*''
The Hawk Eye
''The Hawk Eye'' is a general-circulation newspaper based in Burlington, Iowa, United States, and boasts itself as "''Iowa's Oldest Newspaper''."
History
The newspaper traces its roots to the ''Wisconsin Territorial Gazette and Burlington Adver ...
'' is a morning newspaper published six days a week. The paper was established in 1837 and is Iowa's oldest newspaper.
*Des Moines County News is a once a week newspaper.
; Radio
Burlington's radio stations include
WQKQ 92.1 FM,
KAYP AYP may refer to:
Places
* Albany Park railway station, UK, station code
* Coronel FAP Alfredo Mendívil Duarte Airport, Ayacucho, Peru, IATA code
Language
* North Mesopotamian Arabic (ISO 639-3 ayp), a variety of Arabic
Music
* America ...
89.9 FM,
KKMI 93.5 FM,
KCDM 98.3 FM,
KDMG 103.1 FM,
KBKB 101.7 FM,
KHDK 97.3 FM,
KGRS 107.3 FM,
KCPS 1150 AM,
KBKB 1360 AM, and
KBUR
KBUR (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve the community of Burlington, Iowa. The station primarily broadcasts a talk radio format. KBUR is owned by Pritchard Broadcasting Corporation. It was first licensed on September 11, 1941.
Pri ...
1490 AM. Burlington residents also listen to stations in nearby communities, most notably, the
Quad Cities
The Quad Cities is a region of cities (originally four, see History) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline in northwestern Illinois. These cities are t ...
.
; TV
Burlington previously had a local TV station, KJMH. It signed on August 2, 1984, from a tower on Winegard Drive. It also had studios in Burlington. Initially an independent station, it became a charter FOX affiliate in 1986, but suffered from duplication from
KLJB
KLJB (channel 18) is a television station licensed to Davenport, Iowa, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Quad Cities area. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Nexstar Medi ...
in the Quad Cities. In 1996, the station became a full-time satellite of KLJB, marking the end of local broadcast TV in Burlington. Today, those in the Burlington-Oquawka area receive local over-the-air programming from stations in the Quad Cities (the city's main television market),
Quincy, and
Ottumwa, including the stations listed below.
*
WHBF-TV
WHBF-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Rock Island, Illinois, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for the Quad Cities area. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Burlington, Iowa–licensed CW owned-and-opera ...
CBS
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Channel 4.1 (RF 4); Rock Island, IL (Quad Cities)
*
KWQC-TV
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NBC
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Channel 6.1 (RF 36); Davenport, IA (Quad Cities)
*
KHQA-TV
KHQA-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Hannibal, Missouri, United States, serving the Quincy, Illinois–Hannibal, Missouri–Keokuk, Iowa market as an affiliate of CBS and ABC. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Gro ...
CBS
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Channel 7.1 (RF 7); Hannibal, MO (Quincy, IL)
*
KHQA-TV
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ABC
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting
* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
Channel 7.2 (RF 7); Hannibal, MO (Quincy, IL)
*
WQAD-TV
WQAD-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Moline, Illinois, United States, serving the Quad Cities area as an affiliate of ABC and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on Park 16th Street in Moline, an ...
ABC
ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet.
ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting
* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
Channel 8.1 (RF 38); Moline, IL (Quad Cities)
*
WQAD-DT3 MyNetworkTV
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Channel 8.3 (RF 38); Moline, IL (Quad Cities)
*
WGEM-TV
WGEM-TV (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Quincy, Illinois, United States, serving the Quincy, Illinois–Hannibal, Missouri–Keokuk, Iowa market as an affiliate of NBC, The CW Plus, and Fox. Owned by Gray Television, it is a ...
NBC
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Channel 10.1 (RF 10); Quincy, IL
*
WGEM-DT2 The CW
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Channel 10.2 (RF 10); Quincy, IL
*
WGEM-DT3 Fox
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Channel 10.3 (RF 10); Quincy, IL
*
KIIN PBS
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Channel 12.1 (RF 12); Iowa City, IA
*
KYOU-TV
KYOU-TV (channel 15) is a television station licensed to Ottumwa, Iowa, United States, serving the Ottumwa, Iowa– Kirksville, Missouri market as an affiliate of Fox, NBC and The CW Plus. The station is owned by Gray Television and maintain ...
Fox
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Twelve sp ...
Channel 15.1 (RF 15); Ottumwa, IA
*
WTJR CTN Channel 16.1 (RF 32); Quincy, IL
*
KLJB
KLJB (channel 18) is a television station licensed to Davenport, Iowa, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Quad Cities area. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Nexstar Medi ...
Fox
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Twelve sp ...
Channel 18.1 (RF 49); Davenport, IA (Quad Cities)
*
KWKB
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This TV
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Broadcast Networks, LLC, part of the Allen Media Group division of Entertainment Studios. Originally f ...
Channel 20.1 (RF 25); Iowa City, IA
*
WMEC PBS
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Channel 22.1 (RF 21); Macomb, IL
*
WQPT-TV
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PBS
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Channel 24.1 (RF 23); Moline, IL (Quad Cities)
*
KGCW
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The CW
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Channel 26.1 (RF 41); Burlington, IA (Quad Cities, studio in Rock Island)
*
KQIN PBS
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Channel 36.1 (RF 34); Davenport, IA (Quad Cities)
Transportation
Roadways
![Great River Bridge Burlington Iowa 1997](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Great_River_Bridge_Burlington_Iowa_1997.jpg)
The town is served by
U.S. Route 34
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, which is the freeway that bisects the city, and
U.S. Route 61
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.
Iowa Highways 99 and 406 served the town before they were decommissioned in 2003. The two still exist as county roads.
Transit
Burlington Urban Service (B.U.S.) is a transportation system owned and operated by the City of Burlington. Routes service nearly all areas of Burlington, and nearly 90% of all residents live within three city blocks of a bus route.
Burlington Trailways
Burlington Trailways is an inter-city bus company based in West Burlington, Iowa.
History
Burlington Trailways was founded in 1929 as the Burlington Transportation Company, a subsidiary of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. It started ...
provides daily intercity bus service from its West Burlington
hub.
Rail service
Amtrak
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, the national passenger rail system, provides service to
Burlington
Burlington may refer to:
Places Canada Geography
* Burlington, Newfoundland and Labrador
* Burlington, Nova Scotia
* Burlington, Ontario, the most populous city with the name "Burlington"
* Burlington, Prince Edward Island
* Burlington Bay, no ...
, operating its ''
California Zephyr
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'' daily in both directions between
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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, Illinois, and
Emeryville Emeryville may refer to:
* Emeryville, California
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, California, across the bay from San Francisco. The older
Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Passenger Station exists nearby and is also listed on the NRHP.
Airport
The
Southeast Iowa Regional Airport (
IATA code
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BRL
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), is located about five miles south of downtown.
Quad City International Airport
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, the area's large international airport, is approximately 70 miles north of the city, in
Moline, Illinois
Moline ( ) is a city located in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. With a population of 42,985 in 2020, it is the largest city in Rock Island County. Moline is one of the Quad Cities, along with neighboring East Moline and Rock Island ...
.
Notable people
*
Tony Baker, played in the
National Football League
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, earned a
Pro Bowl
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The format has changed thro ...
selection in 1969
*
George J. Bauer (1871–1942), Illinois state representative
*
Robert Bierstedt (1913–1998), influential
sociologist at the
University of Virginia
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and former president of the
Eastern Sociological Society Eastern Sociological Society is a non-profit organization with a mission of "promoting excellence in sociological scholarship and instruction". It publishes a peer-reviewed journal (Sociological Forum) and holds a yearly academic conference
An ac ...
*
Tom Billups
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, American
rugby
Rugby may refer to:
Sport
* Rugby football in many forms:
** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
*** Rugby league nines
*** Rugby league sevens
*** Touch (sport)
*** Wheelchair rugby league
** Rugby union: 1 ...
player
*
Harriet Connor Brown
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(1872-1962), writer and women's rights activist
*
Dr. Wallace Carothers, inventor of nylon
*
James Clarke, Governor of
Iowa Territory
The Territory of Iowa was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1838, until December 28, 1846, when the southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Iowa. The remain ...
, founder of the Iowa Patriot newspaper now called ''
The Hawk Eye
''The Hawk Eye'' is a general-circulation newspaper based in Burlington, Iowa, United States, and boasts itself as "''Iowa's Oldest Newspaper''."
History
The newspaper traces its roots to the ''Wisconsin Territorial Gazette and Burlington Adver ...
''
*
John Murray Corse,
American Civil War
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General
*
Thomas Courtney, Iowa Senator
*
Augustus C. Dodge
Augustus Caesar Dodge (January 2, 1812November 20, 1883) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic delegate to the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa Territory, a U.S. minister to Spain, and o ...
,
United States Senator
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The composition and powe ...
from Iowa
*
Henry Dodge
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(1782–1867) United States Senator from
Wisconsin
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and Governor of
Wisconsin Territory
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*
Wayne Duke
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Biography
Ea ...
, Commissioner of the
Big Ten
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and
Big Eight Conferences
*
Marion Howard Dunham (1842–1921), teacher, activist, suffragist
*
Grace Durand (1867–1948), businesswoman and dairy owner in Illinois
*
William Frawley
William Clement Frawley (February 26, 1887 – March 3, 1966) was an American vaudevillian and actor best remembered for playing landlord Fred Mertz in the American television sitcom '' I Love Lucy'', "Bub" O'Casey in the television comedy ser ...
(1887–1966), actor, best known as
Fred Mertz
Frederick Hobart Mertz, played by William Frawley, is a fictional character in the 1950s American sitcom '' I Love Lucy''.
Character
Fred was born and raised on a farm in the Midwest; in one episode, Ethel says that Fred's mother comes to visit o ...
on the ''
I Love Lucy
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'' show
*
James L. Green, scientist, Director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA's Science Mission Directorate
*
James Wilson Grimes
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Biography
Born in Deering, New Hampshire, Grimes graduated from Hampton Acad ...
U.S. Senator noted for being the swing vote in the
Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
*
Jack Hamilton,
Major League Baseball
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player from 1962 to 1969
*
Serranus Clinton Hastings
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, U.S. Congressman and founder of the
Hastings College of the Law
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at
University of California
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*
Frank Hatton,
United States Postmaster General
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The PMG is selected and appointed by ...
and newspaperman
*
Bart Howard
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, composer and writer of the jazz standard "
Fly Me to the Moon
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"
*
Jimmie E. Howard (1929–1993), received the
Medal of Honor
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in
Vietnam
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, the
USS Howard is named in his honor
*
John Hurlburt (1898–1968), NFL player
*
James M. Kelly,
NASA
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Astronaut, piloted the Space Shuttle's 2005
Return to Flight
*
Jack Kent, Illustrator of famous
comic strip,
King Aroo
*
Aldo Leopold, naturalist and writer
*
A. Starker Leopold
Aldo Starker Leopold (October 22, 1913 – August 23, 1983) was an American author, forester, zoologist and conservationist. He also served as professor at the University of California, Berkeley for thirty years. Throughout his life, Leopold ...
, author,
zoologist
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, and
conservationist
*
Everett Lindsay
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,
NFL player
*
Steve Macko (1954–1981), baseball player with the
Chicago Cubs during the 1979 and 1980
Major League Baseball
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seasons
*
Arabella Mansfield, first female lawyer in the United States.
*
Robert J. Marshall, President of the
Lutheran Church in America
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The LCA's immigrant heritage came mostly fr ...
, 1968–1978
*
Richard Paul Matsch
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Education and career
Matsch was born in Burlington, Io ...
,
United States federal judge
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*
John H. Mickey
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Life and career
Early life and ancestors
...
, 17th governor of
Nebraska
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from 1903 to 1907
*
May Naudain
Mary Arnaud "May" Naudain (October 12, 1880 – February 1923) was an American musical theatre actress and singer.
Early life
Naudain was born in 1880 (although some sources give it as 1872) in Burlington, Iowa, and raised in Omaha, Nebras ...
(1881–1923), musical theatre and vaudeville singer
*
Robert Noyce, co-founder of
Fairchild Semiconductor and
Intel
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, credited with the invention of the
integrated circuit or microchip
*
Kay A. Orr
Kay Avonne Orr (née Stark; January 2, 1939) is an American politician who served as the 36th governor of Nebraska from 1987 to 1991. A member of the Republican Party, she was the state's first and to date only female governor.
Early life and e ...
, Governor of
Nebraska
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and the first Republican woman governor
*
Matt Perisho
Matthew Alan Perisho (born June 8, 1975) is an American former professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball. He bats and throws left-handed.
Career
In 2008, Perisho played for the Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo of the Triple-A Mexican Leag ...
,
Major League Baseball
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player
*
Charles Elliott Perkins (1840–1907), railroad tycoon
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Perkins Park in Burlington was part of his estate
*
George C. Remey (1841–1928), rear admiral of the U.S. Navy
*
Mason Remey
Charles Mason Remey (15 May 1874 – 4 February 1974) was a prominent member of the early American Baháʼí community, and served in several important administrative capacities. He is well-known for an attempted schism of 1960, in which he cla ...
(1874–1974), religious leader of the
American Baháʼí community
*
William Butler Remey
William Butler Remey (1842 – January 20, 1895) was an American military officer who served in the American Civil War and was the first Judge Advocate General of the Navy, serving from 1880 to 1892.
Early life
William Butler Remey was born in ...
(1842–1895), Judge Advocate General of the Navy, 1880–1892
*
George Scott III
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(1953-1980), punk bassist
*
Dr. Edward Stone, former director of the
NASA
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ...
*
Elswyth Thane,
romance novelist
*
Charles Wachsmuth
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,
paleontologist
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*
Kurt Warner
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, NFL quarterback, twice named the
National Football League
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Most Valuable Player and MVP of
Super Bowl XXXIV
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*
Robert Watts
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, artist
Sister cities
Burlington has one
sister city
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While there are early examples of inter ...
, as designated by
Sister Cities International
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:
*
Barbacena
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It is in the foothills of the Serra da Mantiqueira south of the state capital Belo ...
,
Minas Gerais
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, Brazil
Notes
See also
*
Crapo Park
*
Burlington, North Dakota (named after Burlington, Iowa)
*
World War II frigate named after Burlington.
*
Church of St. John the Baptist
*
Great River Bridge
The Great River Bridge is an asymmetrical, single tower cable-stayed bridge over the Mississippi River. It carries U.S. Route 34 from Burlington, Iowa to the town of Gulf Port, Illinois.
History
Construction began in 1989, but work on the ma ...
References
External links
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Former colonial and territorial capitals in the United States
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