Alexandria (Minnesota)
Douglas County
27-00928
Alexandria is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Douglas County in the Midwest of the U.S. State of Minnesota. In 2010, Alexandria had 11,070 inhabitants.
Geography
Alexandria is surrounded by lakes, at 45 ° 53'07 " north latitude and 95 ° 22'38 " west longitude. The city covers 43.25 km ², which 41.34 km ² land and 1.91 km ² water surface spread.
Neighboring cities of Alexandria Garfield (11,9 km northwest ), Carlos (15,1 km northeast), Nelson ( 9.8 km east ) and Forada (13 km south).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (176 km north-west ), Duluth Lake Superior ( 335 km east-northeast ), Minneapolis (212 km southeast), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (230 km southeast) and Sioux Falls, South Dakota ( 366 km south ).
Traffic
Along the southern outskirts of the city of Alexandria into a west-east direction of Interstate 94 and here running on the same route U.S. Highway 52 leading from the Twin Cities to the west. In the city center the Minnesota State Routes 27 and 29 meet together. All other roads are subordinate partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In north -south railway line of the Canadian Pacific Railway runs through the city of Alexandria.
With the Alexandria Municipal Airport is located in the south of the urban area of Alexandria, a small airfield. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (235 km southeast).
History
The first white settlers were 1858, the brothers Alexander and William Kenkead from Delaware. 1859 a post office was established, the Alexander Kenkead board as a post holder. The place to be at this time settled more settlers, was named after the name of the post holder Alexandria.
During the Civil War, the city grew steadily. 1962 Fort of the U.S. Army was built in Alexandria.
1877, the town was incorporated as "Village". 1908 a municipal statute was adopted and in 1909 the site of the status of " City" was awarded.
In a museum in Alexandria is the Kensington Runestone, which was around 30 km southwest of Alexandria "found", but is a fake.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Alexandria 11,070 people in 5298 households. The population density was 267.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 5298 households lived statistically 2.02 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.3 percent white, 0.8 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
19.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 22.0 per cent were 65 years or older. 51.7 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 35,050. The per capita income was $ 22,726. 20.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Duane Hanson (1925-1996) - sculptor - Born in Alexandria
- Edward Hanson (1889-1959) - Naval Officer, 1938-1940 Military Governor of American Samoa - born in Alexandria
- John Hawkes ( born 1959 ) - actor and musician - born and raised in Alexandria
- Peter Krause (born 1965 ) - actor - born in Alexandria
- Tom Lehman ( b. 1959 ) - Professional golfer on the PGA TOUR - grew up in Alexandria
- Knute Nelson (1843-1923) - twelfth Governor of Minnesota (1893-1895) and U.S. senator (1895-1923) - lived for several years in Alexandria