Hills (Minnesota)
Rock County
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Hills is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Rock County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Hills had 686 inhabitants.
Geography
Hills is the most southwesterly community in Minnesota and is on the Coteau des Prairies mentioned plateau, which extends to the south to Iowa and South Dakota to the west. The geographical coordinates of 43 ° 31'41 Hills are " north latitude and 96 ° 21'31 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 1.4 km ².
Neighbouring places of Hills are Beaver Creek ( 11.9 km to the north), Luverne (23,5 km northeast), Steen (9,7 km to the east ), Lester, Iowa (12,4 km south), Larchwood (14,7 km south-west ), Valley Springs, South Dakota ( 14.7 kilometers north-west ) and Manley (12,9 km in the same direction).
The nearest major cities are Minneapolis ( 356 km east-northeast ), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul ( 367 km in the same direction), Rochester (354 km east), Iowa's capital, Des Moines (443 km south-east ), Omaha, Nebraska (298 km south), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (29,4 km west ) and Fargo, North Dakota (410 km north).
Traffic
Hills forms the western terminus of the Minnesota State Route 270 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or within city roads.
Along the western margin of Hills runs a railroad line of the Marshall Subdivision, a regional subsidiary of the BNSF Railway.
The nearest airports are the South Falls Regional Airport ( 37.4 km WNW ), the Eppley Airfield near Omaha (291 km south) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 349 km east-northeast ).
History
The town was founded in 1890 as a railroad line of the Sioux City and Northern Railroad reached the area. Was named the place after Fredric C. Hills, the then president of the railway company.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Hills 686 people in 263 households. The population density was 490 people per square kilometer. In the 263 households lived statistically 2.43 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.0 percent white, 0.4 percent African Americans, 0.1 percent (one person) Asians, 0.1 percent (one person) Polynesians and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 50.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 25.4 percent were 65 years or older. 52.0 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 41,875. The per capita income was $ 19,370. 8.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.