Fertile (Minnesota)
Polk County
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Fertile is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Polk County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Fertile had 842 inhabitants.
Fertile is part of the metropolitan area of Greater Grand Forks.
Geography
Fertile is located in northwestern Minnesota on the northern banks of the Sand Hill River, a right tributary of the border between Minnesota and North Dakota forming Red River of the North. The geographical coordinates of 47 ° 32'10 Fertile are " north latitude and 96 ° 16'49 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 5.52 km ².
Neighbouring places of Fertile are Maple Bay ( 16.2 km NNE ), Winger (23,4 km east ), Gary (19,8 km south), Beltrami (19,6 km west ) and Crookston (37,9 km to the northwest ).
In addition to Grand Forks, North Dakota ( 78.4 kilometers north-west ) are the nearest larger towns Fargo, North Dakota (112 km southwest), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (302 km north), Duluth Lake Superior ( 360 km east-southeast ) and Minneapolis ( 426 km southeast).
The border with Canada is located 179 km north.
Traffic
The Minnesota State Route 32 runs from north to south as the main road through Fertile. North of the city leads the Minnesota State Route 102 at its southern terminus in the MN 32 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
By Fertile a combined foot and bicycle path runs the Agassiz Recreational Trail, on a former railway line.
To the north of the outskirts of Fertile is the Fertile Municipal Airport, a small airfield. The nearest international airports are the Grand Forks International Airport ( 92.6 km north west ), the Hector International Airport in Fargo (115 km southwest), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (305 km north- north-west ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (450 km south-east ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Fertile 842 people in 372 households. The population density was 152.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 372 households lived statistically 2.13 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.1 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and 0.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
23.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 49.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 27.2 percent were 65 years or older. 53.6 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 35,000. The per capita income was $ 22,839. 17.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.