Karlstad (Minnesota)
Kittson County
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Karlstad is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Kittson County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Karlstad had 760 inhabitants.
Geography
Karlstad is located in northwestern Minnesota near the Canadian border in the north and in the west to North Dakota. The town is located at 48 ° 34'39 " north latitude, 96 ° 31'14 " west longitude and extending over 3.96 km ².
Neighboring cities of Karlstad, Halma (12,2 km northwest ), Greenbush (30,5 km northeast) and Strandquist (11,6 km southeast).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (246 km south), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (169 km north), Duluth Lake Superior (451 km south-east ) and Minneapolis ( 532 km south-southeast ).
The border with Canada is located 54.7 km north-northeast.
Traffic
In north -south U.S. Highway 59 leads as the main road through Hallock. In the city center the Minnesota State Route 11 crosses All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In parallel to U.S. 59 runs a railroad line of the Canadian Pacific Railway belonging to the SOO Line Railroad.
With the Karlstad Municipal Airport is located on the western outskirts of a small regional airport. The next airports are the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (177 km north-north- west ), the Hector International Airport in Fargo (231 km south) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 555 km southeast).
History
In 1883, the Swede Carl August Carlson came to the area and established a farm. 1904 built the SOO Line Railroad, a railroad line that crossed Carlson country. The railway company bought a piece of land at the same time by Carlson to create a railway settlement. To give a name of the settlement, it was decided under a number of other suggestions for the name of Karlstad, for which both the farmer Carlson and the Swedish city of Karlstad were the inspiration.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Karlstad 760 people in 331 households. The population density was 191.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 331 households lived statistically 2.16 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 99.1 percent white, 0.3 percent African Americans, 0.1 percent (one person) Native American and 0.3 percent Asian; 0.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
22.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 49.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 27.6 percent were 65 years or older. 54.6 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 40,882. The per capita income was $ 20,501. 13.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.