Brooks (Minnesota)
Red Lake County
27-08038
Brooks is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Red Lake County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Brooks had 141 inhabitants.
Geography
Brooks is located in northwestern Minnesota on the Hill River, a tributary of the opening into the Red River of the North Red Lake River. The geographical coordinates are 47 ° 49'02 Brooks ' north latitude and 96 ° 00'21 "west longitude. The site covers an area of 3.03 km ².
Towns nearby Brooks are Plummer ( 12.1 km NNW ) Oklee (13,8 km to the east), Erskine (16,8 km south), Mentor (23,8 km southwest) and Red Lake Falls ( 26.9 km west-northwest ).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (166 km south-west ), Grand Forks ( 96.3 km to the west ), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (266 km north-northwest ), Duluth Lake Superior ( 353 km east-southeast ) and Minneapolis (434 km to the southeast ).
The border with Canada is located 149 km north.
Traffic
The running from north to south U.S. Highway 59 crosses in the center of Brooks the Minnesota State Route 92 All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In parallel to U.S. 59, a railroad line of the Canadian Pacific Railway runs through Brooks.
With the Thief River Falls Regional Airport is located 38.4 kilometers north-northwest of the nearest regional airport. The nearest major airports are the Hector International Airport in Fargo (169 km southwest), the Grand Forks International Airport (104 km west), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (274 km north-northwest ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 458 km to the southeast ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Brooks 141 people in 60 households. The population density was 46.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 60 households lived statistically 2.35 per person.
Ethnically, the population consisted of five exceptions only from whites. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.7 percent ( a person ) of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.4 percent were 65 years or older. 50.4 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 32,679. The per capita income was $ 15,787. 15.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.