Ellendale (Minnesota)
Steele County
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Ellendale is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Steele County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Ellendale had 691 inhabitants.
Geography
Ellendale is located in southern Minnesota at 43 ° 52'22 " north latitude and 93 ° 18'05 " west longitude. The site covers an area of 2.49 km ².
Towns nearby Ellendale are Hope (12.5 km to the north ), Blooming Prairie (21,2 km to the east), Geneva (8.7 km to the southeast ), Clarks Grove ( 13.7 km to the south), Hartland (22,1 km southwest ) and New Richland (15,4 km west ).
The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (131 km north), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (137 km in the same direction), Rochester ( 83.8 km ENE ) Cedar Rapids, Iowa (302 km south-east ), Iowa's capital, Des Moines ( 266 km south), Omaha, Nebraska (482 km southwest), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (307 miles west) and Fargo, North Dakota (506 km north-west ).
Traffic
Along the eastern Ortsrandes of Ellendale extends Interstate 35, which is the shortest route from the Twin Cities to Des Moines here. The Minnesota State Route 30 runs in east-west direction as the main road through the city of Ellendale. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
A railroad line of the Union Pacific Railroad runs in a north -south direction through the center of Ellendale.
The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (128 km north).
History
In 1900, a stretch of the former Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway reached the area around the present site. The railway company buys land from a local farmer for a new city the plant. The newly founded town was named after Ellendale Ellen Dale Ives, the wife of the president of the railroad company.
In 1901 the newly founded town was incorporated as an independent municipality. At that time the town had about 200 residents, a post office, several Mietställe, a meat market, two grain elevators, a lumberyard and other businesses. A slaughterhouse was built south of the station.
1910 Ellendale already had about 400 inhabitants. A two-storey school building of brick was erected in the same year. In 1922 the building was extended after several surrounding schools were merged to form a center.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Ellendale 691 people in 296 households. The population density was 277.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 296 households lived statistically 2.33 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.6 percent White, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.1 percent Asian and 0.9 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.4 percent were 65 years or older. 49.8 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 73,125. The per capita income was $ 24,398. 3.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.