Nashwauk, Minnesota
Itasca County
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Nashwauk is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Itasca County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Nashwauk had 983 inhabitants.
In Nashwauk is the main church of the Catholic community of Nashwauk - Keewatin - Pengilly, St. Cecilia's, which is supervised by Reverand Ronald Gagne and Deacon Richard Johnston.
Geography
Nashwauk is located in northern Minnesota at 47 ° 22'35 " north latitude and 93 ° 09'36 " west longitude. The town covers 39.63 km ², spread over 37.76 km ² land and 1.86 km ² water surface. Nashwauk is for the most part in the Nashwauk Township, but extends to a smaller portion to the Greenway Township.
Neighboring cities of Nashwauk Keewatin are ( at the eastern city limits ), Pengilly (6,9 km south) and Calumet (11,2 km southwest).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (309 miles west), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (509 km north-west ), Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada ( 377 km east-northeast ), Duluth Lake Superior (131 km southeast) and Minneapolis (291 km south).
The border with Canada is located 185 km north.
Traffic
Along the southern margin of Nashwauk proceeds of U.S. Highway 169 The Minnesota State Route 65 leads as the main road through the center of Nashwauk. All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In parallel to U.S. 169 passes a railroad line of the BNSF Railway.
With the Grand Rapids - Itasca County Airport is located 36.8 km south west, a regional airport. The next airports are the Hector International Airport in Fargo (322 miles west), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (517 km north-west ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (304 km south).
Economy
The largest employers are Dairy Queen and Fred 's Grocery ( grocery store). More employers are the Spartan Transportation, the Nashwauk - Keewatin of high school with approximately 400 students is responsible for transport to the high school students in the town, the city administration and the American Bank.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Nashwauk 983 people in 452 households. The population density was 26 people per square kilometer. In the 452 households lived statistically 2.17 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.4 percent White, 0.9 percent Native American, 0.1 percent (one person) and Asians 0.1 percent (one person) from other ethnic groups; 2.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
21.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.5 percent were 65 years or older. 52.6 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 32,212. The per capita income was $ 17,505. 15.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Robert Gilruth, air and space pioneer