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Encyclopedia > Bay View Gardens, Illinois

Bay View Gardens is a village located in Woodford County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 366.


Geography

Bay View Gardens is located at 40°48'35" North, 89°31'9" West (40.809826, -89.519091)1.


According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.5 km˛ (0.2 mi˛). 0.5 km˛ (0.2 mi˛) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.


Demographics

As of the census2 of 2000, there are 366 people, 141 households, and 105 families residing in the village. The population density is 785.1/km˛ (2,057.0/mi˛). There are 149 housing units at an average density of 319.6/km˛ (837.4/mi˛). The racial makeup of the village is 99.18% White, 0.27% African American, 0.55% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.55% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.


There are 141 households out of which 38.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.7% are married couples living together, 12.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 25.5% are non-families. 24.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 9.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.60 and the average family size is 3.06.


In the village the population is spread out with 28.1% under the age of 18, 7.1% from 18 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 24.0% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 105.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 94.8 males.


The median income for a household in the village is $32,750, and the median income for a family is $37,614. Males have a median income of $32,083 versus $23,194 for females. The per capita income for the village is $15,230. 5.3% of the population and 5.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 6.7% of those under the age of 18 and 0.0% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.


External links

  • Maps and aerial photos
    • Street map from Mapquest (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=40.809826&longitude=-89.519091&zoom=6)
    • Topographic map from Topozone (http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=40.809826&lon=-89.519091&s=200&size=m&layer=DRG100)
    • Aerial photograph from Microsoft Terraserver (http://terraserver.microsoft.com/map.aspx?t=1&s=14&lon=-89.519091&lat=40.809826&w=750&h=500)



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Skinner: Little Gardens. 3: The Country Yard (4718 words)
Gardens, if no bigger than bedrooms, are attached to most of the English cottages, and odd makeshifts are often seen in the attempt to force a growth of flowers where Americans would never think of planting them.
A village garden can be charming if it draws only on tile fields within sight of the house for its materials, and it becomes esthetically and morally useful if it teaches to the villagers the immanence of that beauty which, too often in their conceit, is a far and merchantable quantity.
The view, however, may be as free to the occupant of a hovel as to the owner of a Biltmore, and where it is present it serves for laying out the guide-lines of a garden composition.
VLN: Bernard Maybeck 1907-1908 (6151 words)
The north-south axis ends in a porch on the south side with access to the garden terrace on the east and with views of the hills and the bay to the west.
The mania that gripped Berkeley residents in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for planting redwoods on the hillsides where they were not native was later lamented as the trees obscured people's views and buried their gardens under blankets of needles (Woodbridge and Barnes 1992: 48, 53-65, 229).
View of the garden side of the Lawson house showing a rail that was added to the balcony.
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