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Oskaloosa
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city in and the county seat of Mahaska County, Iowa, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Iowa
- County
- Mahaska
- Incorporated
- February 4, 1875
- Total
- 8.03 sq mi (20.81 km )
- Land
- 8.02 sq mi (20.77 km )
- Water
- 0.015 sq mi (0.04 km )
- Elevation
- 846 ft (258 m)
- Density
- 1,441.0/sq mi (556.38/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 19-59925
- Website
- www .oskaloosaiowa .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Oskaloosa
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Mahaska County
- Population
- 11558
- Area
- 19.280532
- Elevation
- 256
- Capital of
- Mahaska County
- Official website
- www.oskaloosaiowa.org
- Image
- Oskaloosa, Iowa (14210533314).jpg
- Households
- 4822
- Dialing code
- 641
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- Commons category
- Oskaloosa, Iowa
- topic's main category
- Category:Oskaloosa, Iowa
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Oskaloosa, Iowa
- postal code
- 52577
- water as percent of area
- 0.2024
- per capita income
- 27920
- date of incorporation
- 1875-02-04
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Encyclopedic overview
Oskaloosa is a city in, and the county seat of, Mahaska County, Iowa. The population was 11,558 in the 2020 U.S. census. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Oskaloosa was a national center of bituminous coal mining. Today, Oskaloosa is home to William Penn University, a private university, and Lake Keomah State Park which is located four miles east of the city.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oskaloosa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.