Pembina (North Dakota)
Pembina County
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Pembina is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Pembina County in the U.S. state of North Dakota. In 2010, Pembina had 592 inhabitants. The city's name has its origin in the Indian word anepeminan sipi, which means " Cramberry " ( Large-fruited cranberry ) and was awarded by the Chippewa in the place where this plant grew in the area in large numbers.
Geography
Pembina is located in the far northeast of North Dakota at the mouth of the Pembina River in the Red River of North, which forms the border with Minnesota. The geographical coordinates of 48 ° 57'59 Pembina are " north latitude and 97 ° 14'43 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 1.99 km ².
Towns nearby are St. Vincent of Pembina in Minnesota ( on the opposite bank of the Red River ), Humboldt in Minnesota (15,4 km southeast), Bathgate (27,7 km southwest), Neche (25,8 km west ), Emerson the Canadian province of Manitoba (8.4 km north- north-east ) and Noyes in Minnesota ( 7.8 km north-east ).
The nearest major cities are Winnipeg, Manitoba (115 km north), Duluth, Minnesota on Lake Superior ( 533 km southeast ), Grand Forks (123 km south), Fargo (246 km in the same direction) and North Dakota capital of Bismarck ( 524 km southwest).
The border with Canada is located 5 km north.
Traffic
Along the western edge of Pembina runs in a north -south Interstate 29, which is the shortest route from Winnipeg to Kansas City in Missouri. U.S. Highway 81 runs from the Canadian border in a southerly direction a distance together with the I 29 The border crossing to Canada is located 5 km north of Pembina. On the northern edge of the city extends in a west-east direction of the North Dakota Highway 59, which runs eastward a bridge over the Red River towards Minnesota. There, the name of the street in Minnesota State Route 171 changes All other streets within the city are subordinate roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
The Pembina Municipal Airport is 2.2 km south of a small airfield. The nearest major airports are the Grand Forks International Airport (124 km south) and the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (118 km north).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Pembina 592 people in 237 households. The population density was 297.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 237 households lived statistically 2.5 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 94.1 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 1.0 percent Asian and 1.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
26.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.2 percent were 65 years or older. 51.7 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 65,000. The per capita income was $ 29,728. 6.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.