Menahga, Minnesota
Wadena County
27-41660
Menahga is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Wadena County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Menahga had 1306 inhabitants.
Geography
Menahga is located in central Minnesota at the Blueberry River, heard about the Shell River and the Crow Wing River to the catchment area of the Mississippi. The geographical coordinates of Menahga are 46 ° 45'11 " north latitude and 95 ° 05'59 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 10.08 km ², which at 9.58 km ² land and 0.5 km ² water surface spread.
Neighbouring places of Menahga are Park Rapids ( 19.8 km to the north) and Sebeka (14,6 km to the south ).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (138 miles west), Duluth Lake Superior (274 km east), Minneapolis (283 km southeast), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul ( 301 km in the same direction) and Sioux Falls, South Dakota ( 454 km south-southwest ).
The border with Canada is located 269 km north.
Traffic
In the center of Menahga take U.S. Highway 71 and Minnesota State Route 87 together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
With the Park Rapids Municipal - Konshok Field Airport is located 17.6 km north a small airfield. The next regional airports are the Bemidji Regional Airport ( 98.5 km north ) and the Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport (118 km southeast). The nearest major airports are the Hector International Airport in Fargo (156 km west) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (306 km south-east ).
History
Menahga was founded in 1891. It was named after the Ojibwe word for the Blueberry River. A year later the town was incorporated as an independent municipality. The first white settlers arrived in the 1870s from the eastern U.S. in the region, while the majority of the later settlers came from Finland. 1891, the city was connected to the network of the Great Northern Railway. In the same year a post office was opened.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Menahga 1306 people in 569 households. The population density was 136.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 569 households lived statistically 2.18 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.8 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 47.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 28.2 percent were 65 years or older. 54.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 31,458. The per capita income was $ 19,400. 14.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.