Lancaster (Minnesota)
Kittson County
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Lancaster is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Kittson County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Lancaster had 340 inhabitants.
Geography
Lancaster 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 ° 51'30 " north latitude, 96 ° 48'15 " west longitude and extending over 5.96 km ².
Towns nearby Lancaster are Lake Bronson (18,1 km southeast), Hallock (19,5 km southwest) and Humboldt ( 23.9 km north west ).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (250 km south), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (131 km north), Duluth Lake Superior ( 489 km southeast) and Minneapolis ( 570 km south-southeast ).
The border with Canada is located 16.3 km north.
Traffic
The U.S. Highway 59 coming from the north to Lancaster, leads as the main road through the town and leads in a southeasterly direction out again. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In northwest-southeast direction, a railroad line of the Canadian Pacific Railway belonging to the SOO Line Railroad runs through Lancaster.
By Hallock Municipal Airport is located 22.4 km south west of Lancaster, a small regional airport. The next airports are the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (138 km north), the Hector International Airport in Fargo (250 km south) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (593 km south-east ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Lancaster 340 people in 163 households. The population density was 57 people per square kilometer. In the 163 households lived statistically 2.09 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.8 percent white and 0.6 percent ( two people) Asians; 0.6 percent ( two people) descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
20.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 23.2 percent were 65 years or older. 52.9 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 33,646. The per capita income was $ 22,948. 7.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.