Edgerton (Minnesota)
Pipestone County
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Edgerton is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Pipestone County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Edgerton had 1189 inhabitants.
Geography
Edgerton is located in southwestern Minnesota on the Coteau des Prairies mentioned plateau, which extends to the south to Iowa and South Dakota to the west. The city is situated on the east bank of the Rock River, a tributary of the opening into the Missouri Big Sioux River. The geographical coordinates are 43 ° 52'31 Edgerton " north latitude and 96 ° 07'56 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 3 km ².
Towns nearby Edgerton are Woodstock (17,1 km to the north), Chandler (18,7 km northeast), Leota (13,4 km to the southeast ), Kenneth ( 17.5 km SSE ), Hardwick (16,4 km southwest), Trosky (12,1 km west ) and Hatfield (16,2 km to the northwest ).
The nearest major cities are Minneapolis ( 337 km east-northeast ), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul ( 351 km in the same direction), Rochester ( 341 km east ), Iowa's capital, Des Moines ( 455 km southeast), Omaha, Nebraska ( 337 km south ), Sioux Falls, South Dakota ( 79.8 km southwest ) and Fargo, North Dakota (372 km north).
Traffic
By Edgarton do not perform regional highways. All roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or within city roads.
The Pipestone Municipal Airport is located 24.3 km north west a small airfield. The nearest major airports are the Eppley Airfield near Omaha (330 km south) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 332 km east-northeast ).
History
The area around the present town Edgarton is on quartzite. In this mineral occurrences of Catlinit are embedded, which was broken down by the Plains Indians for making the heads of their peace pipes and partially still is.
In 1876 Alonzo put Kingburry, AA and MM Dodge Gunsolus on the present area the first time land for white settlement from 1877 and settled there on. The Southern Minnesota Railroad reached Edgarton in 1879. Thereby, the population of the emerging town grew steadily.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Edgerton 1189 people in 491 households. The population density was 396.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 491 households lived statistically 2.3 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 95.3 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.8 percent Asian and 2.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 3.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
23.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 46.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 29.9 percent were 65 years or older. 53.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 41,406. The per capita income was $ 20,333. 5.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.