All-America City Award
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The All-America City Award is given by the National Civic League annually to ten cities in the United States.
The award is the oldest and most respected community recognition program in the nation and recognizes communities whose citizens work together to identify and tackle community-wide challenges and achieve uncommon results.
Since the program's inception in 1949, more than 4,000 communities have competed and over 500 have been named All-America Cities.
2006 winners
On 11 June 2006, the winners of the All-America City Award were announced. [link] The winning communities are:
- Columbus, Ohio
- DeSoto, Texas
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Lincoln, California
- Longmont, Colorado
- Marietta, Georgia
- Maumee, Ohio
- Richland County, South Carolina
- Pharr, Texas
- Sarasota County, Florida
2006 finalists
2006 All-America City finalists & populations
- Lincoln, California – 33,000
- Modesto, California – 207,634
- Salinas, California – 151,060
- Sierra Madre, California – 11,023
- Golden, Colorado – 17,200
- Longmont, Colorado – 82,798
- Miami, Florida – 362,470
- Sarasota County, Florida – 367,867
- Braselton, Georgia – 1,206
- Marietta, Georgia – 61,282
- Hawarden, Iowa – 2,478
- Elmhurst, Illinois – 42,762
- Park Forest, Illinois – 23,462
- Schaumburg, Illinois – 75,386
- Madison, Indiana – 12,335
- Lewiston, Maine – 35,690
- Cape Girardeau, Missouri – 35,741
- Kansas City, Missouri – 441,269
- Greensboro, North Carolina – 223,891
- Ogdensburg, New York – 12,364
- Columbus, Ohio – 728,432
- Fairview Park, Ohio – 12,572
- Maumee, Ohio – 15,074
- Durant, Oklahoma – 14,565
- Harrisburg, Oregon – 3,275
- Sherwood, Oregon – 14,540
- Charleston, South Carolina – 96,650
- North Augusta, South Carolina – 17,574
- Richland County, South Carolina – 320,677
- DeSoto, Texas – 45,500
- Lancaster, Texas – 31,500
- Pharr, Texas – 54,452
- Layton City, Utah – 68,017
- Pacific, Washington – 5,770
2005 winners
In 2005, the winners of the All-America City Award were:
- Canoga Park, California
- Carrollton, Missouri
- Georgetown County, South Carolina
- Lauderhill, Florida
- Orangeburg County, South Carolina
- Pompano Beach, Florida
- Port Huron, Michigan
- Seward, Alaska
- Willmar, Minnesota
- Winchester, Virginia
Hall of Fame
Cities receiving the award three or more times are as follows, with number of times received indicated in parentheses:
- Anchorage, Alaska (4)
- Baltimore, Maryland (3)
- Boston, Massachusetts (3)
- Cincinnati, Ohio (3)
- Cleveland, Ohio (5)
- Columbus, Ohio (4)
- Dayton, Ohio (3)
- Des Moines, Iowa (4)
- Edinburg, Texas (3)
- Grand Island, Nebraska (3)
- Grand Rapids, Michigan (3)
- Independence, Missouri (3)
- Kansas City, Missouri (5)
- Laurinburg, North Carolina (3)
- New Haven, Connecticut (3)
- Peoria, Illinois (3)
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (4)
- Phoenix, Arizona (4)
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (3)
- Roanoke, Virginia (5)
- Rockville, Maryland (4)
- San Antonio, Texas (3)
- Shreveport, Louisiana (3)
- Tacoma, Washington (3)
- Toledo, Ohio (3)
- Tupelo, Mississippi (3)
- Wichita, Kansas (3)
- Worcester, Massachusetts (5)
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