Woodbury County, Iowa

620 Douglas St
Sioux City, IA 51101
Phone: (712) 279-6611
Fax: (712) 279-6021
www.woodbury-ia.com

On the western border of IA; established Jan 15, 1851 from Indian lands. Name Origin: For Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), governor of NH (1823-24), U.S. senator (1825-31; 1841-45), U.S. secretary of the navy (1831-34), U.S. secretary of the treasury (1834-41), and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1845-51)

Area (sq mi):: 877.39 (land 872.59; water 4.79) Population per square mile: 117.60
Population 2005: 102,605 State rank: 6 Population change: 2000-20005 -1.20%; 1990-2000 5.70% Population 2000: 103,877 (White 83.60%; Black or African American 2.00%; Hispanic or Latino 9.10%; Asian 2.40%; Other 8.10%). Foreign born: 7.20%. Median age: 34.20
Income 2000: per capita $18,771; median household $38,509; Population below poverty level: 10.30% Personal per capita income (2000-2003): $25,545-$26,981
Unemployment (2004): 5.50% Unemployment change (from 2000): 2.20% Median travel time to work: 17.60 minutes Working outside county of residence: 21.40%

Cities with population over 10,000:

Sioux City County seat

(83,680)

See other counties in Iowa.

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References in periodicals archive

Haynes died Sunday at age 87 in a Seattle-area hospital, said Gary Brown, an emergency services director for Woodbury County, Iowa. Brown confirmed the death with Haynes' daughter.

Flight 232 pilot praised for 1989 Sioux City crash landing dies at age 87

Woodbury County, Iowa, 982 F.Supp.2d 904 (N.D.Iowa 2013).

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White (11) first subdivided the Dakota, with the Woodbury unit of Woodbury County, Iowa, representing the type Dakota Formation of today (not Omadi Formation, 12; see 13).

Continued sleuthing of problematic continental Molluscan taxa--the cretaceous Dakota formation

Over eighty percent of the American Indian children in the child welfare system in Iowa were located in Woodbury County, Iowa. As a result, the DMC Resource Center, along with the Iowa Department of Human Services and community and national partners, dedicated efforts serving Native American children and families more effectively (Derezotes et al., 2008) and, among other interventions, utilized the tools described here.

Measuring change in disproportionality and disparities: three diagnostic tools

Woodbury County, Iowa, 908 F.Supp.2d 976 (N.D.Iowa 2012).

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In describing the use of three instruments to monitor and stimulate changes in racial and ethnic disproportionalities and disparities in Woodbury County, Iowa, Richardson and Derezotes (2010, this issue) indicate that such rates have been reduced.

Introduction: race, class, and the child welfare system

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