Karlsruhe (North Dakota)

McHenry County

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Karlsruhe (North Dakota) is a municipality ( "city" ) in McHenry County. The place was in 2010, 82 inhabitants and an area of ​​2 km ². I (in North Dakota each independent municipality is referred to as city, regardless of their number of inhabitants).

Statistics

The town experienced between 2000 and 2010 a dramatic population decline of about one -third.

According to the Census of 2000, the place still had 54 households, and 32 families with 121 inhabitants. The population density was thus 60.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In 15 (27.8% ) of households children and young people lived under the age of 18. 50 % of the population were married.

In 2010 there were only 36 households and households lived in eight persons under 18 years with only 82 residents in total.

History

The inhabitants are descendants of German immigrants who migrated to Odessa on the Black Sea about 1809. About 70 years later, the situation deteriorated so that they emigrated from there to the United States to North Dakota. They established settlements there, which they called Mannheim, Strasbourg, Alsace, Rastatt, Worms or Karlsruhe. The town was founded in 1912.