Breezy Point (Minnesota)

Crow Wing County

27-07516

Breezy Point is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Crow Wing County in the northern center of the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Breezy Point had 2346 inhabitants.

Geography

Breezy Point lies on the northwestern shore of Pelican Lake at 46 ° 36'07 " north latitude and 94 ° 12'56 " west longitude. The city covers 42.89 km ², spread over 34.19 km ² land and 8.7 km ² water surface.

Towns nearby Breezy Point Pequot Lakes are (at the western city limits ), Jenkins (13 km north-west ), Cross Lake (16,8 km northeast), Merrifield (16,3 km to the south) and Nisswa (13,4 km southwest).

The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (236 km south-southeast ), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (254 km in the same direction), Eau Claire, Wisconsin ( 382 km southeast), Duluth Lake Superior (196 km east) and Fargo, North Dakota ( 232 km west ).

The border with Canada is located 285 km north.

Traffic

West of Breezy Point runs in a north -south direction, the Minnesota State Route 371; east of the city parallel the Minnesota State Route 6 In all streets within the city are minor rural roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

With the Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport is located 33.5 km south of Breezy Point is a small regional airport. The nearest major airport is 259 km south-southeast location Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport.

History

In the 1920s, a resort was built on the territory of the present-day city. The surrounding area became increasingly more densely populated, so that was founded in 1939 under the name of the adjacent lake, the " Village of Pelican Lakes ".

Since the name Pelican Lakes led to a series of confusion with similarly named localities, it was decided a change of name in 1969. In 1970, the renaming in Breezy Point was.

In 1974 Breezy Point as all incorporated communities in Minnesota was the status of " City " award.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Breezy Point 2346 people in 904 households. The population density was 68.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 904 households lived statistically 2.6 persons each.

The racial the population was composed of 98.7 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

27.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.5 percent were 65 years or older. 49.3 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 53,750. The per capita income was $ 29,703. 7.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.