Fosston, Minnesota
Polk County
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Fosston is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Polk County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Fosston had 1527 inhabitants.
Fosston is part of the metropolitan area of Greater Grand Forks.
Geography
Fosston is located in northwestern Minnesota in the middle of a lakeside scenery. The geographical coordinates of 47 ° 34'41 Fosston are " north latitude and 95 ° 44'56 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 4.43 km ².
Neighbouring places of Fosston are Trail ( 27.1 km to the north), gully ( 30.9 km NNE ) Gonvick (34,3 km northeast), Bagley ( 28.5 km east-southeast ), Lengby ( 12.0 km southeast), Winger (21,6 km west-southwest ) and McIntosh (12,4 km to the northwest ).
In addition to Grand Forks, North Dakota (111 km west-northwest ) are the nearest larger towns Fargo, North Dakota (157 km southwest), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (303 km north- north-west ), Duluth Lake Superior ( 316 km east-southeast ) and Minneapolis ( 415 km southeast).
The border with Canada is located 175 km north.
Traffic
U.S. Highway 2 leads in a northwest-southeast direction as the main road through Fosston. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Parallel to the U.S. 2 runs a railroad line of the BNSF Railway, the second largest railway company in the country.
In the northwest of the urban area is located to the Fosston Municipal Airport, a small airfield. The nearest major airports are the Grand Forks International Airport (125 km west-northwest ), the Hector International Airport in Fargo (159 km southwest), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (311 km north- north-west ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 439 km to the southeast ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Fosston 1527 people in 670 households. The population density was 344.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 670 households lived statistically 2.14 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 94.0 percent White, 2.9 percent Native American and 0.4 percent Asian; 2.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 48.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 26.0 percent were 65 years or older. 53.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 32,857. The per capita income was $ 21,676. 19.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.