Bloomington, Indiana Bloomington, Indiana City of Bloomington Official logo of Bloomington, Indiana Location in the state of Indiana Location in the state of Indiana State Indiana Townships Bloomington, Perry, Richland, Van Buren Major State Roads Indiana 37.svg - Indiana 45.svg - Indiana 46.svg - Indiana 48.svg - Indiana 446.svg Bloomington is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S.
State of Indiana. It is the seventh-largest town/city in Indiana and the fourth-largest outside the Indianapolis urbane area.
According to the Monroe County History Center, Bloomington is known as the "Gateway to Scenic Southern Indiana." The populace was 80,405 at the 2010 census. The city's populace was estimated at 84,067 as of July 2016 by the U.S.
Bloomington is the home to Indiana University Bloomington.
Established in 1820, IU Bloomington has 42,630 students, as of September 2014, and is the initial and biggest campus of Indiana University.
Most of the ground buildings are assembled of Indiana limestone.
Bloomington is also the home of the Indiana University School of Education, Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University Press, the Kelley School of Business, the Kinsey Institute, the Indiana University School of Optometry, the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute, and the Indiana University School of Informatics.
Bloomington has been designated a Tree City for 32 years, as of 2015. The town/city was also the locale of the Academy Award-winning 1979 movie Breaking Away, featuring a reenactment of Indiana University's annual Little 500 bicycle race.
Bloomington was platted in 1818. A postal service has been in operation at Bloomington since 1825. Bloomington was incorporated in 1827. The Elias Abel House, Blair-Dunning House, Bloomington City Hall, Bloomington West Side Historic District, Cantol Wax Company Building, Coca-Cola Bottling Plant, Cochran-Helton-Lindley House, Courthouse Square Historic District, Hinkle-Garton Farmstead, Home Laundry Company, Illinois Central Railroad Freight Depot, Johnson's Creamery, Legg House, Millen House, Millen-Chase-Mc - Calla House, Monroe Carnegie Library, Monroe County Courthouse, Morgan House, J.L.
Nichols House and Studio, North Washington Street Historic District, The Old Crescent, Princess Theatre, Prospect Hill Historic District, Second Baptist Church, Seminary Square Park, Steele Dunning Historic District, University Courts Historic District, Vinegar Hill Historic District, Wicks Building, Woolery Stone Company, and Andrew Wylie House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A Fourth of July parade passes the Monroe County courthouse in Bloomington.
According to the 2010 census, Bloomington has a total region of 23.359 square miles (60.50 km2), of which 23.16 square miles (59.98 km2) (or 99.15%) is territory and 0.199 square miles (0.52 km2) (or 0.85%) is water. Bloomington is the sixth biggest city in Indiana, based on population. Southern Indiana receives an abundance of rain, with a annual average of nearly 45 inches.
Climate data for Bloomington, Indiana Bloomington is an region of irregular limestone terrain characterized by sinks, ravines, fissures, underground streams, sinking streams, springs and caves. It is situated in the rolling hills of southern Indiana, resting on the intersection of the Norman Uplands and the Mitchell Plain.
The mostly varied topography of the town/city provides a sharp contrast to the flatter terrain more typical of central to northern portions of Indiana.
Griffy Lake, once the central origin of drinking water for the city.
Bloomington is positioned on a comparatively high ground, the summit of the divide between the basins of the West Fork and East Fork of Indiana's White River.
Accordingly, there are no primary watercourses inside the city, nor is much groundwater available for wells. The biggest stream inside the town/city itself is Clear Creek, with its easterly branch known on the Indiana University ground as Jordan River.
Due to the absence of either natural lakes or rivers or groundwater in or near the city, a number of dams have been constructed on close-by creeks over the last 100 years to furnish for the water needs of Bloomington and Monroe County.
A new reservoir, known as Griffy Lake, was constructed in a more geologically suitable region north of the city. (It is now inside Bloomington's official town/city limits.) Later, in the 1950s, two much larger reservoirs, Lake Lemon and Lake Monroe were created in the northeastern and southeastern parts of Monroe County.
Monroe Lake was created by the US Army Corps of Engineers for flood control, but has since been used to supply the town/city and the county with water.
PCB pollution, associated with Westinghouse's operations, long was a concern in the area. A number of sites, in particular, Bennett's Dump and Lemon Lane Landfill at the northwestern edge of the town/city and Neal's Landfill in the county, were listed as Superfund sites.
Location of the Bloomington Metropolitan Travel Destination in Indiana Bloomington is the principal town/city of the Bloomington Metropolitan Statistical Area, a urbane region that covers Greene, Monroe, and Owen counties and had a combined populace of 175,506 at the 2000 census. The median age in the town/city was 23.3 years.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 12.7% under the age of 18, 42.3% from 18 to 24, 24.6% from 25 to 44, 12.6% from 45 to 64, and 7.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The Bloomington and Monroe County region is home to primary employers representing a diverse compilation of fields, including education, the life sciences, advanced manufacturing and technology. Bloomington is a county-wide economic center anchored by Indiana University and home to a diverse company improve involved in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, technology, community care, and the arts.
Bloomington's concentration of employment in the life sciences is six times greater than the U.S.
Bloomington has been recognized by Inc.
Magazine as one of "America's Best Cities for Doing Business" and as one of Entrepreneur Magazine's Top 50 "Hottest Small Cities for Entrepreneurs." Additionally, Forbes Magazine ranked Bloomington No.
1 Indiana University Bloomington 8,880 3 Indiana University Health-Bloomington 2,246 4 Monroe County Community School Corporation 1,882 7 City of Bloomington 690 Bloomington is home to a several experienced and amateur theater companies, among the most notable are: the Indiana University Dept.
Of Theatre & Drama; Cardinal Stage Company; the Bloomington Playwrights Project; Theatre of the People; and the Indiana University Auditorium, which is a 3,000-seat performing arts venue which brings in nationwide tours of musicals, plays and other live entertainment.
Buskirk-Chumley Theater in downtown Bloomington.
Bloomington is home to the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, which is a renovated 616 seat vaudeville and movie home assembled in 1922.
Known locally as the "Indiana Theater" or the "Bus-Chum", it was directed until 1995 as a movie theater.
Bloomington also offers artists and entertainers performance space at the Ivy Tech Waldron Arts Center, a improve arts center that has hosted hundreds of performances through the last two decades.
Bloomington also has a large folk punk music scene.
The town is home to Chris Clavin who runs the DIY punk modern record label Plan-It-X Records and is in the folk punk band Ghost Mice who incessantly sing about Bloomington.
Every other year Plan-It-X Records organises Plan-it-X Fest, a large DIY punk music festival held in Bloomington.
Bloomington is also home to the record labels Eradicator Records, Secretly Canadian, Jagjaguwar and Blue - Sanct.
The Grammy Nominated band The Fray recorded their Triple Platinum debut album How to Save a Life at Echo Park Studios in Bloomington.
Bloomington is also the hometown of dark folk rockers Murder By Death.
The "Zine" publishing company, Microcosm Publishing, is also positioned in Bloomington, as is the Lotus Festival of World Music, which occurs each fall.
Much of Bloomington's music originates in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, its Opera Theater and enhance performances numbering more than a thousand each year.
Traditional music is prominent in Bloomington due to the existence of the Archives of Traditional Music and Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University.
Bloomington has been home to a number of musicians and "scholars" over the years, including Strawberry Mc - Cloud, Lotus Dickey, Miles Krassen, Anthony Seeger, Bob Lucas, Caroline Peyton, Mark Bingham, Willy Schwartz, Jessica Radcliffe, Hawk Hubbard, Linda Higginbotham, Brad Leftwich, Ruthie Allen, Grey Larsen, Cindy Kallet, Bruce Anderson, Pete Sutherland, Malcolm Dalglish, Sam Bartlett, Jamie Gans, and Ken Perlman.
From 1985-1993 Bloomington was home to the one-time Drum Corps International champion Star of Indiana.
Downtown Bloomington is typically referred to as the region between First to Eleventh Streets and Madison to Lincoln Streets, with the vast majority of the dining, shopping and drinking establishments being positioned on the two chief north/south thoroughfares of Walnut Street and College Avenue, which run alongside on either side of the courthouse.
Portions of this one-way pair, along with segments of the east/west Sixth Street and Kirkwood Avenues, comprise Bloomington's historic courthouse square.
Bloomington and Monroe County's B-Line walking trail, on the site of a former barns line, bisects the downtown region as well, providing an region for walking, biking, running and hiking.
Indiana University Bloomington Montessori School University Elementary School Bloomington High School South Bloomington High School North Bloomington Graduation School Bloomington also receives stations from Indianapolis; it is part of the Indianapolis market.
Bloomington is a gold-rated bicycle-friendly improve by the League of American Bicyclists.
Bloomington's somewhat compact territory use evolution style has made it easy and convenient to get from point A to point B by bicycle.
Bloomington, for many years was one of the biggest cities without an interstate or freeway expressway.
However, interstate access finally occurred in December 2015 when the Interstate 69 expansion between Evansville and Indianapolis was instead of to Bloomington.
The upgrading of SR 37 from a 4 Lane Highway to Interstate standards for the next section of I-69 between Bloomington and Martinsville is under assembly and will be instead of by the middle of 2018.
State Road 45 (SR 45) and State Road 46 (SR 46) run through Bloomington together on a four-lane highway known as the "bypass".
State Road 48 (SR 48) starts as a four-lane highway on the city's west side before narrowing to two-lanes at Oard Rd outside the town/city limits.
Bloomington has four sister-city relationships.
Note: This list does not include students attending Indiana University.
Please see List of Indiana University (Bloomington) citizens for famous alumni.
John Merle Coulter, former president of Indiana University David Starr Jordan, former president of Indiana University and Stanford University Alfred Ryors, former president of Indiana University Herman B Wells, former president and chancellor of Indiana University Andrew Wylie, first president of Indiana University The Bloomington Playwrights Project produces only new plays by American playwrights Indiana University Bloomington Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction (Bloomington) Lake Lemon - positioned approximately 10 miles northeast of Bloomington.
Upland Brewing Company the biggest microbrewery in the state of Indiana.
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