Oklee, Minnesota
Red Lake County
27-48202
Oklee is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Red Lake County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Oklee had 435 inhabitants.
Geography
Oklee is located in northwestern Minnesota at Lost River, a tributary of the opening into the Red River of the North Red Lake River. The geographical coordinates of 47 ° 50'21 Oklee are " north latitude and 95 ° 51'16 " west longitude. The site covers an area of 1.55 km ².
Neighbouring places of Oklee are Trail ( 17.8 km southeast), Brooks (13,8 km west-southwest ) and Plummer (21,8 km northwest ).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (179 km south-west ), Grand Forks (109 miles west), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (278 km north-northwest ), Duluth Lake Superior ( 349 km east-southeast ) and Minneapolis ( 448 km south-east ).
The border with Canada is located 139 km north.
Traffic
The Minnesota State Route 122 runs north -south through Oklee. All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In northwest-southeast direction, a railroad line of the Canadian Pacific Railway runs through Oklee.
With the Thief River Falls Regional Airport is located 48 km north -west of the nearest regional airport. The nearest major airports are the Hector International Airport in Fargo (182 km southwest), the Grand Forks International Airport (123 km west), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (286 km north-northwest ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 471 km to the southeast ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Oklee 435 people in 195 households. The population density was 280.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 195 households lived statistically 2.23 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 88.3 percent White, 9.0 percent Native American and 0.2 percent (one person) Asians; 2.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 21.4 percent were 65 years or older. 49.4 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 36,563. The per capita income was $ 18,036. 12.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.