Kerkhoven (Minnesota)

Swift County

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Kerkhoven is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Swift County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Kerkhoven had 759 inhabitants.

Geography

Kerkhoven Minnesota is located in the west to 45 ° 11'35 " north latitude and 95 ° 19'14 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 2.12 km ².

Neighbouring places of Kerkhoven are Pennock (12,8 km southeast), Raymond (25,3 km SSW ), Clara City ( 29.8 km to the south) and Murdock (6.7 km to the northwest ).

The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (176 km east), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (194 km in the same direction), Rochester (317 km south-east ), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (257 km southwest) and Fargo, North Dakota (232 km north-northwest ).

Traffic

U.S. Highway 12 runs northwest-southeast direction as the main road through Kerkhoven. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or urban roads.

In parallel to U.S. 12 runs a railway line of the BNSF Railway through the city of Kerkhoven.

The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (193 km east-southeast ).

History

The former Pillsbury Township was first settled in 1865 by whites. In the center of the township, a town of the same name was created in 1870. The town was dissolved under the former name of Pillsbury in 1881 from the Township and incorporated as an independent municipality. Two years later, the city was renamed after the entrepreneur Kerkhoven.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Kerkhoven 759 people in 329 households. The population density was 358 people per square kilometer. In the 329 households lived statistically 2.31 ​​per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.1 percent White, 0.3 percent Native American and 2.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 12.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

26.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.8 percent were 65 years or older. 50.3 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 32,000. The per capita income was $ 16,913. 15.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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