Argyle (Minnesota)
Marshall County
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Argyle is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Marshall County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Argyle had 639 inhabitants.
Geography
Argyle is located on Middle River, a tributary of the opening into the Red River of the North Snake River. The geographical coordinates are 48 ° 19'58 " north latitude and 96 ° 49'15 " west longitude. The site covers an area of 2.59 km ².
Towns nearby Argyle are Stephen (14,4 km north-northwest ), Warren ( 16.3 km SSE ) and Alvarado (28,9 km southwest).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (179 km south), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (196 km north), Duluth Lake Superior ( 452 km east-southeast ) and Minneapolis (530 km south-east ).
The border with Canada is located 80.9 km north.
Traffic
The leading north-south U.S. Highway 75 runs through the east of Argyle. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In parallel to U.S. 75 runs a railroad line of the BNSF Railway today to belong to the former Great Northern Railway.
With the Warren Municipal Airport is located 20.9 km south-southeast of Argyle, a small regional airport. The next airports are the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (198 km north), the Hector International Airport in Fargo (179 km south) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 553 km southeast).
History
When in 1879 James J. Hill founded the later Great Northern Railway, a railway line from Crookston to the Canadian border was planned. The land on which is the present city was previously inhabited by a product coming from Canada settler named Gervais who established a small settlement here. Hill was south of Middle River to create a railway settlement, which was named Argyle and in 1883 incorporated as an independent municipality.
Since the new settlement was located only on the south side of the river, the embankment was smooth. But this also meant that the northern shore was a large polder area. Thus, the earlier settlement by Gervais in 1888 was abandoned with the construction of the dike, which was achieved by compensating the government.
One of the first predominantly French-Canadian settlers gradually numerous immigrants from England, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Scotland and Germany were added.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010, lived in Argyle 639 people in 261 households. The population density was 246.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 261 households lived statistically 2.43 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.7 percent White, 0.3 percent ( two people) Native American, and 2.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
26.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.7 percent were 65 years or older. 52.3 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 45,000. The per capita income was $ 32,009. 6.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.