Browns Valley, Minnesota

Traverse County

27-08200

Browns Valley is a place in Traverse County, Minnesota, lying on the border with South Dakota.

Geography

Browns Valley is located on the banks of Little Minnesota River, between the north end of Big Stone Lake and the southern end of Lake Traverse, which is separated from the Little Minnesota River by a low and narrow continental divide. The place and the two lakes are situated in the so-called Traverse Gap, the bed of the former glacial River Warren, once a natural outflow of Lake Agassiz. Today, Lake Traverse is drained through the Bois de Sioux River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of ​​2.0 km ², all land.

Demography

In the United States Census 2000 690 inhabitants were counted in 285 households, and 171 families residing in Browns Valley. The population density was 337.2 inhabitants / km ². The number of housing units was 317, which corresponds to a density of 154.9 housing / km ².

The inhabitants passed in 2000 to 82.61 % White, 15.80 % Native American, 0.43 % Asian, 0.14 % Pacific Islanders, 0.14 % from other races, and 0.87 % from two or more races. 1.74% of the population reported in the Census to be Hispanic or Latino.

In 26.3% of the stewards children lived under the age of 18 and 45.3 % of households are married couples living together, 9.5 % of households had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.0 % of households were non-families. 36.5 % of all households were made up of individuals and 21.4% had someone aged 65 years or older living alone. The average household size was 2.29 persons and the average family consisted of 3.02 persons.

Of the population 24.5% were less than 18 years old, 18.7 % were in the age group of 18 to 24 years, 17.8% were between 25 and 44 years old and 19.3 % between 45 and 64 years. 31.0 % were 65 years of age or older. The average age was 45 years. For every 100 females there were 86.5 males; each accounted for 82.2 men per 100 women in the age 18 and over.

The average income per household was $ 26,563, and the median family income was U.S. $ 30 208. The men had on average an income of 25,500 U.S. dollars, compared with U.S. $ 20 139 for women. The per capita income amounted to U.S. $ 15,062. About 10.3 % of families and 14.4 % of the population were below the poverty line; this applied to 16.5 % of those under age 18 and 11.0 % of people aged 65 years or older.

Flooding

Since the height differences in the Traverse Gap are very low, in case of flooding, the water of the catchment area draining into the Gulf of Mexico Mississippi River belonging river can cross the Continental Divide and flow into the Lake Traverse. This drained through the Bois de Sioux River and the Red River of the North in the Lake Winnipeg and on to Hudson Bay. A erected by the United States Army Corps of Engineers dam protects Browns Valley from flooding from the Lake Traverse.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Charles Milby Dale, politicians and 1945-1949 Governor of the State of New Hampshire
• Arthur Emanuel Nelson, politician who represented the state of Minnesota for a short time in the U.S. Senate