Kasota, Minnesota

Le Sueur County

27-32462

Kasota is a city in Le Sueur County, Minnesota, United States. In 2000, the City as a place statuierte had 680 inhabitants.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.6 km ², all of which constitutes land area

Minnesota State Route 22 is the main street of the village. The U.S. Highway 169 runs nearby.

History

The first settlers in Kasota and thus the entire present-day La Sueur County 1851 was Rueben Buetters. J. W. Babcock founded the city; it is the only significant settlement in the Kasota Township.

Babcock was also the one who first broke Kasota limestone in and around and sold. Babcock Stone Company was in the early history of the city, the most important things and the relationship between Babcock and the city was not always rosy. As Babcock decided to retire outside the city limits, the city forced him to fill the quarry. This led to the formation of the park in the city center.

Babcock Stone Company went bankrupt in the early 1950s and 1953, the quarries Babcock was acquired by Vetter Stone Company, whose headquarters is located in nearby Mankato. On the former premises in Kasota today is a company which manufactures gates and doors for industrial enterprises.

Kasota limestone was used as the lining of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC used.

Kasota - in the Dakota language means " clear sky " - was the name of a 1884 -built wooden steamer iron ore on the Great Lakes. This sank after colliding with the passenger ship The City of Detroit on the Detroit River in July 1890. The Kasota was lifted in 1892 and returned to service.

The USS Kasota was a tug of the United States Navy, who was from 1944 to 1961 in the service.

Demography

At the time of the census of 2000, there were 680 people Kasota the city. The population density was 260.0 people per km ². There were 279 housing units at an average 106.7 per km ². The population consisted of Kasotas 95.59 % White, 0.74 % African American, 2.06 % Native American, 0.15 % Asian, 0.15 % reported from other races, and 1.32 % from two or more races. 0.88 % of the population to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Residents Kasotas distributed to 275 households out of which 34.2% were living in children under 18 years. 49.5% married couples living together, 15.3 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.4 % were non-families. 21.1% of households were made ​​up of individuals and someone lived in 8.4 % of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.46 and the average family size is 2.81 people.

The city population was spread out with 26.2 % under the, 9.0 % 18 -24- year-old, 27.9 % 25 -44- year-old, 27.4 % 45-64 year olds and 9.6 % under the age of 65 years or more. The average age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 101.8 males. In the over -18s accounted for 100 women 94.6 males.

The median household income in Kasota was 39 097 U.S. dollars, and the median family income reached the height of 43,750 U.S. dollars. The average income of men was 30,300 U.S. dollars, compared to 21,711 U.S. dollars for women. The per capita income in Kasota was 17,503 U.S. dollars. 7.8 % of the population and 6.6 % of families had affected an income below the poverty line, including 10.6 % of minors and 16.9 % of those age 65 or over.