Morris, Illinois Morris The Morris Downtown Commercial Historic District State Illinois Townships Morris, Erienna, Saratoga, Wauponsee Location of Morris inside Illinois Location of Morris inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: Morris, Illinois Website: City of Morris The town/city of Morris is the governmental center of county of Grundy County, Illinois, United States.
While not technically inside the city-limits of the city, Dresden Nuclear Power Plant, which provides a substantial portion of the electricity supply for the Chicago urbane area, has a Morris mailing address.
Included among the Dresden plant's reactors is the first commercial nuclear reactor, homed in a spherical concrete and steel shell; it has since been decommissioned, and two more undivided reactors (of 1970s vintage) now generate its electricity. Also close-by is the Morris Operation the only de facto high-level radioactive waste storage site in the United States. Morris is the Grundy County seat and has a large hospital and undivided schools.
It is home to the Morris Community High School Redskins, who have won 3 state championships in football. There are many small parks, ball diamonds, tennis courts, two golf courses, a swimming pool as well as the Gebhard Woods State Park and the William G.
Stratton State Park for boat launching on the Illinois River and a skatepark positioned near White Oak elementary school.
Morris Community High School is known to be positioned on an abandoned quarrying network that stems for approximately five miles (8 kilometres). Morris is home to the Grundy County Speedway, and the town/city also hosts the annual Grundy County Fair and Grundy County Corn Fest.
Morris is situated along the Illinois River at the intersections of U.S.
Morris is positioned at 41 22 31 N 88 25 41 W (41.3751416, -88.4281240), at an altitude of 525 feet (160 m). According to the 2010 census, Morris has a total region of 9.804 square miles (25.39 km2), of which 9.44 square miles (24.45 km2) (or 96.29%) is territory and 0.364 square miles (0.94 km2) (or 3.71%) is water. The annual rain for Morris is about 40 inches.
The record high for Morris is 109 F (43 C) on July 14, 1936.
The record low for Morris is -26 F ( 32 C) in December 1924.
The average high temperature for Morris in July is 84.5 F (43 C), while the average January low is 15.4 F (-9.2 C).
Morris has not been hit by any primary tornadoes in recent history, although they occur in Northern Illinois annually.
Morris was the first town hit by the Super Outbreak of April 3 4, 1974.
Climate data for Morris, Illinois Average high F ( C) 31.0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 5.9 3.6 1.7 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 4.8 17.3 In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.0% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 29.6% from 25 to 44, 20.4% from 45 to 64, and 16.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
54% of Morris is Roman Catholic. The Lyondell Chemical Company is positioned about five miles (8 km) from the town/city center.
Route 6 heading eastbound away from Morris, employs many Morris residents.
In addition to the chemical plant, three nuclear power plants are positioned inside a 15-mile (24 km) radius of the center of Morris.
The closest nuclear plant is only three miles (5 km) away, called the Dresden Nuclear Power Station.
The La - Salle Nuclear Station is 14 15 miles (23 24 km) away, and Braidwood Generating Station is about 13 miles (21 km) away.
In early 1960, the world's first electronic switching fitness was installed at the Morris central office. The fitness was a milestone in telephone switching history, an experiment whose planning started in the early 1950s, and led to the biggest sustained research and evolution program toward a single goal in the Bell System. After conversion of the existing manual telephone fitness using telephone operators for completing telephone calls, with an automatic electromechanical crossbar switching fitness starting in ca.
1958, a several hundred subscribers received dial service from June 1960 through January 1962 from the first mostly electronic system, that used cold-cathode electron tubes, freshwater mechanical relays and switches. For telephone subscribers, the most notable characteristic of what is usually called the Morris System was the use of electronic tone ringers which used up to eight different tones produced by a tweeter, clean water the traditional bell ringer.
Lyman Beecher Ray (1831-1916), lieutenant governor of Illinois 1889-93, politician and Morris shopkeeper Washburn (1921-2007), Illinois state delegates and mayor of Morris a b "Morris city, Illinois".
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Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: City of Morris "Illinois Enumeration 2010".
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NRC dispatches special inspection team to Dresden Nuclear Plant to review reactor shutdown on May 15 (RIII-96-17) U.S.
"Dresden and Quad Cities, Nuclear Power Stations License Renewal Application".
""NUCLEAR ILLINOIS" FACTS" (PDF).
Illinois High School Association.
Illinois High School Association.
The City of Morris Illinois.
"Revisiting the 3 4 April 1974 Super Outbreak of Tornadoes" (PDF).
"Past Monthly Weather Data for Morris, IL [Illinois] ("Morris 1 Nw") : 1911 - 2016".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Morris, Illinois (IL 60450) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, homes, news, sex offenders".
Higgins, A Survey of Bell System Progress in Electronic Switching, Bell System Technical Journal Vol.
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