Morris (Minnesota)
Stevens County
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Morris is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Stevens County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Morris had 5286 inhabitants.
In Morris is with the University of Minnesota Morris, a campus of the University of Minnesota system with approximately 1900 students.
Geography
Morris is located in western Minnesota on the right bank of the Pomme de Terre River, a left tributary of the opening into the Mississippi River Minnesota. The geographical coordinates of 45 ° 35'10 Morris are " north latitude and 95 ° 54'50 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 13 km ².
Towns nearby Morris are Cyrus (14,7 km to the east ), Hancock (14,5 km to the southeast ), Alberta (12 miles west) and Donnelly (13.3 km to the northwest ).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (166 km north-northwest ), Duluth Lake Superior ( 381 km northeast ), Minneapolis (243 km east-southeast ), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (265 km in the same direction) and Sioux Falls, South Dakota (275 km south-southwest ).
Traffic
U.S. Highway 59 passes as Eastern tangent at the center of Morris. The Minnesota State Route 9 runs in a northwest-southeast direction as the main road through the town and crosses in the center on two staggered junctions the Minnesota State Route 28 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In the city of Morris hit two railroads BNSF Railway together.
With the Morris Municipal Airport is located 5.6 km west-southwest of Morris a small airfield. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (260 km east-southeast ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Morris 5286 people in 1986 households. The population density was 406.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 1986 households lived statistically 2.23 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 90.9 percent white, 1.3 percent African American, 1.5 percent Native American, 2.5 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 1.1 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 2.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
17.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 66.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.1 percent were 65 years or older. 53.4 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 40,114. The per capita income was $ 25,679. 21.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.