Murdock (Minnesota)

Swift County

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Murdock is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Swift County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Murdock had 278 inhabitants.

Geography

Murdock is located in western Minnesota at 45 ° 13'26 " north latitude and 95 ° 23'36 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 1.45 km ².

Towns nearby are Kerkhoven Murdock (6.7 km south-east ) and De Graff (7.5 km to the northwest ).

The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (182 km east), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (201 km in the same direction), Rochester (323 km south-east ), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (257 km southwest) and Fargo, North Dakota (226 km north-northwest ).

Traffic

U.S. Highway 12 runs northwest-southeast direction as the main road through Murdock. 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 Murdock.

By Murdock Municipal Airport is located in the south-western area, a small airfield. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (200 km east-southeast ).

History

The place was in 1878, on schedule created by Sabin S. Murdock, a manager and landowners. In the same year a post office was established, which was maintained by the owner of the general store there also applied on behalf of the government. In January 1881 the city was first incorporated. Murdock was incorporated permanently in 1898.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Murdock 278 people in 117 households. The population density was 191.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 117 households lived statistically 2.38 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 95.0 percent white and 4.0 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 7.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

27.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 10.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.8 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 50,000. The per capita income was $ 23,105. 3.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.