Medford (Minnesota)
Steele County
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Medford is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Steele County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Medford had 1239 inhabitants.
Geography
Medford is located in southern Minnesota on both sides of the Straight River, a tributary of the opening into the Mississippi River Cannon. The geographical coordinates are 44 ° 10'22 Medford " north latitude and 93 ° 14'49 " west longitude. The site covers an area of 2.98 km ².
Towns nearby are Medford Faribault (14,4 km to the north), Owatonna (11,2 km south) and Morristown (20,2 km west-northwest ).
The nearest major cities are Minneapolis ( 95.6 km to the north), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (102 km in the same direction), Rochester ( 80.3 km to the east), Cedar Rapids, Iowa ( 324 km south-southeast ), Iowa's capital, Des Moines (299 km south), Omaha, Nebraska (521 km southwest), Sioux Falls, South Dakota ( 340 km west-southwest ) and Fargo, North Dakota (471 km north-west ).
Traffic
Along the western Ortsrandes of Medford extends Interstate 35, which is the shortest route from the Twin Cities to Des Moines here. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
A railroad line of the Union Pacific Railroad runs in a north -south direction through the center of Medford. In parallel, runs a range of smaller I & M Rail Link.
With the Owatonna Degner Regional Airport is located 7.3 kilometers south of a small airfield. The next Gropflughafen is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 90.8 km to the north).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Medford 1239 people in 450 households. The population density was 415.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 450 households lived statistically 2.74 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.3 percent white, 0.9 percent African Americans, 0.1 percent (one person) Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and 0.8 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 5.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
31.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 10.3 percent were 65 years or older. 49.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 64,265. The per capita income was $ 23,817. 8.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Earl Douglass (1862-1931) - fossil collectors and vertebrate paleontologist - born in Medford
- Lynn Frazier (1874-1947) - the twelfth Governor of North Dakota - born in Medford