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Jasper is a city in Dubois County, Indiana, United States located along the Patoka River. The population was 15,038 at the 2010 census making it the 55th largest city in Indiana. Jasper has been the county seat of Dubois County〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 since 1830, succeeding Portersville.〔http://www.irelandindiana.com/〕 On November 4, 2007, Dubois County returned to the Eastern Time Zone, after having moved to the Central Time Zone the previous year. The land uses are mainly agriculture. Jasper is a regional center in Southwestern Indiana, noted for its heavily German Catholic ancestral roots. Jasper has often been called the "Wood Capital of the World", boasting a large number of furniture companies, including Kimball International and Masterbrand Cabinets. Jasper is also home to the Southern Indiana Education Center (SIEC), Jasper Engines & Transmissions (largest re-manufacturer in the market), and to a satellite campus of Vincennes University. The Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame, which honors players and others associated with the national pastime who were born or lived in Indiana, is located in Jasper. Jasper also boasts the only municipally supported Arts Council in the state of Indiana; it is part of city government and is supported by the city for its citizens in the same vein as its park board or its street department. The city of Jasper and the Jasper Community Arts Commission have won the Governor's Arts Award twice, once in 1987 and again in 2007, and it is the only group to have garnered this award twice.〔http://www.in.gov/arts/2520.htm〕 ==Town Recognition== *Jasper was previously ranked in the top 25 in Norman Crampton's 1992 book ''100 Best Small Towns in America''. *In 2005, Jasper was ranked in the ten best places to live in the U.S. by Relocate America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Relocate-America Announces 2005 'America's Top 100 Places to Live' List )〕 *In 2014, movoto.com ranked Jasper fifth on their "10 Best Cities to Live in Indiana" list.〔http://www.movoto.com/blog/top-ten/best-places-in-indiana/〕 *A 2014 report by safewise.com placed Jasper 8th on the "50 Safest Cities in Indiana" rankings.〔http://www.safewise.com/blog/50-safest-cities-indiana/〕 *According to a study done by NerdWallet.com, Jasper is 9th on the "Best Places to Start a Business in Indiana" list.〔http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/small-business/best-places-start-business-indiana/〕 ==Economy== The largest industry sectors by employment in Jasper are manufacturing, retail, and health care & social services. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jasper, Indiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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