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Quick facts for kids Casey, Iowa
City
Location of Casey, Iowa
Country	United States
State	Iowa
Counties	Guthrie, Adair
Area
• Total	0.74 sq mi (1.91 km2)
• Land	0.74 sq mi (1.91 km2)
• Water	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation	1,280 ft (390 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	387
• Density	523.68/sq mi (202.17/km2)
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code	50048
Area code(s)	641
FIPS code	19-11395
GNIS feature ID	2393766

Casey is a city in Adair and Guthrie counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 387 at the 2020 census.

The Guthrie County portion of Casey is part of the Des Moines – West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History

Casey was platted in 1869. The community has the name of a railroad man. The firm John and James Casey, Contractors, from Erie, Pennsylvania, under John F. Tracy, President of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, built the railroad across Iowa, and through Casey, from 1866 to 1869. Most of the streets in the town are named for Union Army generals in the American Civil War.

In 2015 the City Clerk, Dorothy Dillinger, was indicted for misappropriation of city funds and burning down the city hall. She stole up to $300,000 in city funds and spent it on purchases at Victoria's Secret and Wal-Mart, among other places. Dillinger pleaded guilty in federal court and received a prison sentence of five years from judge James E. Gritzner. A new city hall and community center, which replaced the one destroyed in an attempt to cover up the embezzlement, had its groundbreaking in 2018. The estimated cost is $1 million. The majority of the building would be dedicated to community center functions.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.74 square miles (1.92 km²), all land.

Demographics

The population of Casey, Iowa from US census data

2010 census

As of the census of 2010, there were 426 people, 174 households, and 109 families living in the city. The population density was 575.7 inhabitants per square mile (222.3/km²). There were 215 housing units at an average density of 290.5 per square mile (112.2/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 96.7% White, 2.1% Asian, and 1.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.4% of the population.

There were 174 households, of which 30.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.8% were married couples living together, 12.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.7% had a male householder with no wife present, and 37.4% were non-families. 31.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 3.05.

The median age in the city was 44.3 years. 26.1% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 18.6% were from 25 to 44; 28.6% were from 45 to 64; and 19.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49.5% male and 50.5% female.

Education

Casey is in the Adair–Casey Community School District, and students from Casey attend Adair–Casey Elementary School and AC/GC Junior High School in Adair. Students attend AC/GC High School in Guthrie Center, a school of the Guthrie Center Community School District, under a grade-sharing arrangement.

Notable People

Thomas William Duncan, author, was born and raised in Casey at 610 Wallace Street. He wrote circus novels, his most famous of which was Gus the Great, (1947). He died in 1987 in Las Cruces, New Mexico and was buried in an unmarked grave which remained so until 2015. He is the namesake of the local library.

See also

In Spanish: Casey (Iowa) para niños