Flensburg (Minnesota)

Morrison County

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Flensburg is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Morrison County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Flensburg had 225 inhabitants.

Geography

Flensburg is located near the geographical center of Minnesota. About 150 km south-east is Minneapolis; Little Falls, the oldest town in Minnesota is located 10 km east of Flensburg.

The site has an area of 18.2 km ², of which 0.2 km ² (1.14 %) of water.

Economy and Society

The village has a community center, a post office, a gas station, a restaurant, a silo, some craft and commercial businesses and retail stores as well as a small weather station. In the area: farmers grow V.A. Soybeans, corn and grain at.

In Flensburg, there is also the baseball team " Falcoons ", which discharge their home games at the local community center.

History

The first church was built in Flensburg 1885 to 1886, in 1907 was followed by a new building with Polish and German inscription.

Origin of the name

For the origin of the name " Flensburg " There are two theories. The two (then) students Reppmann Joachim and Dietrich Eicke from the German Flensburg examined 1978, the backgrounds of the northern German place names in the Midwest of the United States.

The first and most obvious theory believed that the place is named after the German city. Thus did the German immigrant Albert Bulow, who was the first post office manager in Flensburg, Minnesota, invented the name in memory of his home town in Schleswig -Holstein.

The second version was narrated from the Countyhistoriker Harold Fischer: then go back to the name JC Flynn. He built a sawmill in 1882 on a new railway line. The tiny spots then have first been called Flynn 's Landing. It was finally over Flynnsburg soon become Flensburg.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Flensburg 225 people in 84 households. The population density was 12.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 84 households lived statistically 2.64 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.3 percent White, 0.4 percent (one person) Native American and 0.4 percent (one person) Asians; 1.8 percent were descended from two or more races.

29.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 52.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.8 percent were 65 years or older. 49.8 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 66,042. The per capita income was $ 24,529. 6.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.