Big Falls (Minnesota)
Koochiching County
27-05680
Big Falls is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Koochiching County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Big Falls had 236 inhabitants.
Geography
Big Falls is located in northern Minnesota near the Canadian border in the Big Fork River, a tributary of the Rainy River. The town is located at 48 ° 11'28 " north latitude, 93 ° 48'24 " west longitude and extending 15.7 km ².
Towns nearby are Big Falls Grand Falls ( on the opposite bank of the Big Fork River), Littlefork (33,1 km northeast) and Margie (15,5 km southwest).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (328 km southwest), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada ( 399 km north-west ), Thunder Bay on Lake Superior in Ontario, Canada (412 km east), Duluth (261 km southeast) and Minneapolis (411 km south).
The Canadian border is 45 km north.
Traffic
The U.S. Highway 71 leads in northeast -southwest direction as the main road through Big Falls, where it meets with the Minnesota State Route 6 together at the northern terminus. All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
The nearest major airports are the Hector International Airport in Fargo (331 km southwest), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (408 km north-west ), the Thunder Bay International Airport (410 km east) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 434 km south).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Big Falls 236 people in 130 households. The population density was 15 people per square kilometer. In the 130 households lived statistically 1.82 per person.
With three exceptions, the population consisted only of whites. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.7 percent ( four people ) of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
11.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 23.7 percent were 65 years or older. 47.0 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 31,167. The per capita income was $ 22,309. 21.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.