Humboldt is a city in
Humboldt County,
Iowa
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, United States. The population was 4,792 at the time of the
2020 census, gaining 340 people over the 2000 total.
History
Frank A. Gotch Park (just south of present-day Humboldt and Dakota City) was a location of prehistoric and some Dakota Indian villages near where the two forks of the
Des Moines River
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meet. During westward expansion in the 1800s, this area is thought to be the location of a fort/trading post called Fort Confederation. According to Federal records in 1825, permission was granted to build the fort to trade with the Ihanktonwan Dakota (
Yankton Sioux
The Dakota (pronounced , Dakota language: ''Dakȟóta/Dakhóta'') are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government in North America. They compose two of the three main subcultures of the Sioux people, and are typically divided into ...
) Indians. Information about the exact details of the fort are unclear, such as if American or French Canadian or
Metis
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Ethnic groups
* Métis, recognized Indigenous communities in Canada and America whose distinct culture and language emerged after early intermarriage between First Nations peoples and early European settlers, prima ...
traders built it, bringing up many questions about this fort.
![Humboldt, Iowa marshland](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Humboldt%2C_Iowa_marshland.jpg)
The founder of modern Humboldt,
Stephen Harris Taft, laid out the plans for Springvale, the original name of the town, in 1863. It was named Springvale because of the several natural springs found near the
Des Moines River
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. Taft had very big plans for the community, and expected many intellectuals from the East to move to his new community.
Taft had five goals for his idyllic community.
*The town shall be surrounded and full of trees and forests.
*The town shall be free of the sale of intoxicants.
*The town shall be founded upon a saw mill and grist mill on the
Des Moines River
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*The town shall have the moral fortitude of a solid church and good schools, and that it shall become a town of thinkers and beauty.
*The town shall grow with a college of university importance, and have a church that will not dissent into factions.
Taft undertook the great task of turning empty, blooming prairie into the community of his dreams. He brought out a group of settlers (including a doctor) in 1863, and they lived together in the few houses that had been built. The grist mill was built, known now as the
Corydon Brown House. The first few years were spent laying out the town. Taft wanted very wide boulevards throughout the town, and the community is still known for its streets. Taft also edited the ''Humboldt County True Democrat'' through the offices of the ''
Fort Dodge Sentinel'' in
Fort Dodge
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.
Springvale was renamed Humboldt (after the German explorer and naturalist
Alexander von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, p ...
) in hope of a merger between Springvale and
Dakota City (the county seat of Humboldt County), but no merger took place. This is the first of two major shortcomings that would stunt Humboldt's growth and keep it from reaching Taft's goals.
A meeting in 1866 occurred that formed the Springvale Collegiate Association, led by Taft. After the flood in 1867 that destroyed the town's dam, the issue became popular again in 1869. The association was renamed to Humboldt Collegiate Association in accordance with the town's name change. It was reported that "great enthusiasm" was the feeling in the room, however when the question was posed to the county's voters on October 12, 1869, the measure to appropriate swampland for a Northern Iowa College was defeated.
Taft was not defeated, however, and looked East for funding. After almost missing a payment deadline that would've sunk the college for good, Taft broke ground on June 17, 1870. He ended his address by saying "Hundreds are here present today. Tens of thousands shall gather here a hundred years hence to commemorate the birth of the institution and rejoice in the blessings it shall have conferred."
Humboldt College opened its doors on September 13, 1872. The first three years were designed as preparatory work intended to supplement the pupils' public education that ended around eighth grade. The subsequent four years were college work. June 1879 brought the first graduation class of three families. They would be the only students to ever receive a degree from the institution.
At this time, Taft and the college were in financial trouble. An endowment fund capable of supporting Taft's vision seemed impossible to create, and following turbulent financial times in the East, the college closed in 1916. The building was razed in 1926, following unsuccessful attempts to rent the structure. Without the college, Taft's dreams of Humboldt becoming an intellectual center of knowledge in the West could not be realized.
![John Brown Park 001](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/John_Brown_Park_001.jpg)
In July 1955, when contacts between Americans and Soviets were rare, Humboldt hosted a delegation of Soviet officials (and national and international reporters) for an overnight glimpse of rural American life.
On March 27, 1972, ABC-TV broadcast a half-hour documentary on Humboldt entitled "A Small Town in Iowa." The program was written and produced by
Andy Rooney
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and narrated by
Harry Reasoner
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Over the ...
, a Humboldt native.
[Linda Johnson, "Why are people leaving Utopia? Utopia is Humboldt, Ia., the residents of which were filmed for an ABC documentary last January, March 26, 1972," Des Moines Register, 1972-03-26, at 3-TV.] The show portrayed Humboldt as a kind of paradise that struggled to keep its most talented youth from leaving for larger cities, and asked, "what is it about paradise that's turning the bright kids off?" The answer, according to Reasoner and Rooney, was that "what seems to be missing is more a shortcoming of ours, than of the small town. It is that those of us with ego and ambition are not usually happy performing in front of an audience the size a small town provides."
[
The First National Bank of Humboldt and its shareholders were the primary victims of what the ''Des Moines Register'' described as “one of the most spectacular ]white-collar crime
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s in state history.”[Mariam Rosen]
“Hot Product: World-class Embezzler Gary Lewellyn Rebounds With a Fast-Selling Treatment for A.D.D.,”
''Dallas Observer
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'', June 27, 1996 In 1982 Humboldt native Gary Vance Lewellyn, then a Des Moines stockbroker, attempted to pump up the value of the stock of a high-tech company by singlehandedly creating phony market demand for it.["Catch Me If You Can: A Stockbroker’s Get-Rich-Quick Scheme Goes Sour,"]
''Time
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'', April 26, 1982 To carry out the scheme, he illegally obtained access to bonds of the First National Bank of Humboldt valued at $16.7 million, and secretly pledged the Bank's bonds as security for his personal orders of the company's stock through Wall Street investment firms. When Lewellyn missed margin calls on his stock purchases, the firms obtained the bonds. Suspicious federal regulators closed the Humboldt Bank when it could not account for its missing bonds (and considered, but rejected, the idea of liquidating it).[ Its accountholders were protected by federal insurance but the shares in the bank became worthless. For his crime, Lewellyn was sentenced to twenty years in prison, but served only five years.][ Lewellyn died in 2012.
]
Geography
Humboldt is located at (42.723631, -94.221520). 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.
Humboldt County is located entirely within the Des Moines Lobe of the Western Corn Belt Plains ecoregion, as defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency
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(EPA). One of the flattest regions in Iowa, the Des Moines Lobe ecoregion is a distinctive area naturally defined by Wisconsin glaciation
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but modified by humans for extensive agriculture. In general, the land is level to gently rolling with some areas of relief defined by glacial features like moraine
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s, hummock
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y knobs, and kettle
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s, and outwash deposits. The lobe does not have any loess
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Loess is a periglacial or aeolian ...
deposits like the Loess Hills
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Geology
The Loess (, , or ) Hills are generally located bet ...
to the west.
The stream network is poorly developed and widely spaced, with major rivers carving valleys that are relatively deep and steep-sided. Almost all of the natural lakes of Iowa are found in the northern part of this region (the Iowa Great Lakes
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). Most of the region has been converted from wet prairie to agricultural use with substantial surface water drainage. Only a small fraction of the wetland
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s remain, and many natural lakes have been drained as a result of agricultural drainage projects via drainage tiles or ditch
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es.
Climate
Humboldt, like almost all of Iowa, has a humid continental climate
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(Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...
''Dfa''). Humboldt experiences all four seasons characterized by cold winters, wet springs, hot summers, and relatively short autumns. Wide temperature ranges are common within this climate zone.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census
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of 2010, there were 4,690 people, 2,091 households, and 1,250 families residing in the city. The population density
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was . There were 2,246 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 94.9% White
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, 0.6% African American
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, 0.1% Native American, 0.4% Asian
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, 3.0% from other races
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, and 0.9% from two or more races. Hispanic
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or Latino
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of any race were 5.0% of the population.
There were 2,091 households, of which 24.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.2% were married couples
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living together, 7.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.7% had a male householder with no wife present, and 40.2% were non-families. 35.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.18 and the average family size was 2.80.
The median age in the city was 45.3 years. 22.4% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 19.9% were from 25 to 44; 26% were from 45 to 64; and 24.5% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.7% male and 52.3% female.
2000 census
As of the census
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of 2000, there were 4,452 people, 1,965 households, and 1,202 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 2,090 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 98.41% White
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, 0.20% African American
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, 0.04% Native American, 0.25% 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 ...
, 0.65% 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 0.45% 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 Vic ...
or Latino
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* 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 1.50% of the population.
There were 1,965 households, out of which 24.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.3% were married couples
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living together, 6.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.8% were non-families. 35.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 21.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.18 and the average family size was 2.84.
Age spread: 21.8% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 22.9% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 26.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females, there were 86.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $39,338, and the median income for a family was $49,526. Males had a median income of $32,438 versus $22,586 for females. The per capita income
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Per capita i ...
for the city was $19,656. About 4.4% of families and 7.3% of the population were below the poverty line
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, including 15.0% of those under age 18 and 4.0% of those age 65 or over.
Education
The Humboldt Community School District
Humboldt Community School District is a rural public school district headquartered in Humboldt, Iowa. It is mostly in Humboldt County, with portions in Webster and Wright counties. It serves Dakota City, Humboldt, Hardy, Renwick, and Rutland ...
operates public schools. The city is served by Mease Elementary ( Dakota City), Taft Elementary School, Humboldt Middle School, and Humboldt High School.
Notable people
* G. Duncan Bauman (1912–2003) - Newspaper reporter, editor, publisher of the ''St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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Orig ...
'', 1977-84
* Jack Clancy
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- Football player for the Miami Dolphins
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* Christian Clemenson
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- Emmy Award-winning actor; recent roles include Thomas Burnett in '' United 93'' and Jerry "Hands" Espenson in ''Boston Legal
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''
* Kevin Dresser
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- Head wrestling coach, formerly Virginia Tech
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but currently Iowa State University
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, and 1986 national wrestling champion (142 lbs.) at the University of Iowa
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* Theodore G. Garfield - Second-longest-serving justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, 1941-1969 (from 1961 to 1969 as Chief Justice)
* Frank A. Gotch - world heavyweight wrestling champion from 1908 to 1915
* Frank A. Gotch (MD) - American physician who derived the mathematical expressions Kt/V In medicine, ''Kt/V'' is a number used to quantify hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis treatment adequacy.
*''K'' – dialyzer clearance of urea
*''t'' – dialysis time
*''V'' – volume of distribution of urea, approximately equal to patient's ...
and standardized Kt/V Standardized Kt/V, also std Kt/V, is a way of measuring (renal) dialysis adequacy. It was developed by Frank Gotch and is used in the United States to measure dialysis. Despite the name, it is quite different from Kt/V. In theory, both perito ...
used internationally to quantify and prescribe dialysis therapy for kidney failure
* L. W. Housel - Former Connecticut State Legislator (1901-1902). Two-time Democratic candidate for governor of Iowa
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["Sees Fighting Chance for Smith in Iowa and the Defeat of Gov. Hammill," The Davenport Democrat and Leader, 1928-11-1, and Iowa State Register 1933-34.] (1928 and 1932).
* Byron McKeeby - American artist, educator and master printmaker
* John H. Mitchell
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(1899-1992) - Iowa state representative and attorney general
* Jon Porter
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He ...
- U.S. Representative
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from Nevada
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, January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2009
* Harry Reasoner
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Over the ...
- CBS and ABC news correspondent and television host
* Bruce Reimers - NFL offensive guard for Cincinnati
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and Tampa Bay
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* Dick Schultz
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- College sports coach, executive director of the United States Olympic Committee
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References
External links
Humboldt Community School District
Humboldt portal style website
City government, Chamber of commence, Development association
Comprehensive Statistical Data and more about Humboldt
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Cities in Iowa
Cities in Humboldt County, Iowa
Populated places established in 1863