Waseca, Minnesota "Waseca"
Waseca, Minnesota State Street in downtown Waseca in 2007 State Street in downtown Waseca in 2007 Location of Wasecawithin Waseca County and state of Minnesota Location of Waseca inside Waseca County and state of Minnesota County Waseca The Waseca County Courthouse in 2007 Waseca is a town/city in Waseca County, Minnesota, United States.
Highway 14 runs as an east west freeway bypass just south of the city, while Minnesota Highway 13 passes through the town/city as State Street, running north south.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.19 square miles (13.44 km2); 4.00 square miles (10.36 km2) is territory and 1.19 square miles (3.08 km2) is water. There were 3,504 homeholds of which 30.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 44.7% were married couples living together, 11.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.0% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 38.6% were non-families.
There were 3,388 homeholds out of which 34.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 50.6% were married couples living together, 10.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 34.5% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.0% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 15.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Waseca is home to many schools.
Waseca Intermediate School (WIS), formally Central Immediate School (CIS), name changed starting with the 2012-2013 school year, holds 4th undertaking through 6th grade.
Also starting with the 2012-2013 school year, Waseca High School (WHS) became the Waseca Junior and Senior High School (WJSHS), housing grades 7 through 12 freshwater only 9 through 12, as it was in the past.
The Waseca Alternative High School (WALC), also known as the Alternative Learning Center (ALC), has an alternative learning program for students junior high age through adult.
There is also another preschool, Hansel & Gretel, which is positioned at Faith United Methodist Church as well as other preschools such as Waseca County Head Start.
Waseca has a charter school called TEAM Academy, hosting students from kindergarten-6th grade.
Formerly, Waseca was home to the University of Minnesota Waseca a two-year technical college (before it was converted to the Federal Correctional Institution, Waseca) and the Southern School of Agriculture boarding high school.
Waseca is home to Quad/Graphics which is the biggest periodical printer in the United States.
Waseca is also home to a frozen-vegetable packing plant for Birds Eye brand, owned by Pinnacle Foods. Waseca is home to the Federal Correctional Institution, Waseca, a low-security federal prison housing female inmates.
Waseca opened a waterpark in June 2007.
Waseca has rather than a new bike path that surrounds Clear Lake.
Waseca is home to the Waseca Medical Center, part of the Mayo Health System.
Waseca is home to many parks and lakes, including Clear Lake, Loon Lake, Maplewood Park, Clear Lake Park, Loon Lake Park, Courthouse Park, Blowers Park and many more.
The town/city took its name from Waseca County, Minnesota. A postal service has been in operation at Waseca since 1867. Waseca was incorporated as a town/city in 1881. On April 30, 1967, Waseca was severely damaged from the 1967 Iowa Minnesota tornado outbreak.
17-year-old John David La - Due was charged on May 1, 2014 with 10 attempted murder and explosives counts in a plot to shoot his family to death and then kill himself and "as many students as he could" by blowing up Waseca Junior/Senior High School, Alden, beginning pastor of First Congregational Church of Waseca, made famous in the Laura Ingalls Wilder series "Little House on the Prairie" where he was played by Dabbs Greer in the TV series.
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