Pequot Lakes, Minnesota

Crow Wing County

27-50416

Pequot Lakes is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. In 2000, the city had 947 inhabitants.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of ​​4.4 km ², of which 3.8 km ² of land and 0.6 km ² omitted ( = 13.69 %) to water.

Minnesota State Route 371 runs through the town.

Place name

The village was originally called Sibley. It was not until 1902, on effecting the United States Postal Service 's present name entered as it was still a place Sibley in southwestern Minnesota. The origin of the expression Pequot is not entirely clear. While there is an Indian tribe, the people of the Pequot, but this people had been living at the time when the first Europeans arrived in eastern Connecticut. There are two possible explanations. On the one hand it could be a variation of the word in Chippewasprache for arrow; the word bikwas was called by Father Barroga in his Wörtbuch this indigenous language. On the other hand, suggests a 1936 recorded conversation with a witness pointed out that north of the city lived the daughter of the Indian chief Waubanaquot in the mid-1890s. This therefore allowed the first settlers to use their burrow as a school and church. Your after was O- Pequot, and she was buried after her death in the town's cemetery.

Demography

At the time of the census of 2000, the city occupied 947 people. The population density was 252.2 people per km ². There were 564 housing units at an average 150.2 per km ². The population of Pequot Lakes consisted of 98.10 % White, 1.06 % African American, 0.32 % Native American, 0.32 % Asian, 0.11 % reported from other races, and 0.11 % from two or more races. 0.74 % of the population to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The inhabitants of the city were distributed among 479 households out of which 23.6% were living in children under 18 years. 36.5 % married couples living together, 9.8 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 51.6 % were non-families. 47.6 % of households were made ​​up of individuals and someone lived in 24.4 % of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 1.96 and the average family size is 2.81 people.

The city population was spread out with 23.9 % under the, 8.7 % 18 -24- year-old, 24.8 % 25 -44- year-old, 19.5% 45-64 year olds and 23.1 % under the age of 65 years or more. The average age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 78.7 males. In the over -18s accounted for 100 women 76.7 males.

The median household income in Pequot Lakes was 23,813 U.S. dollars and the median family income reached the height of 35,000 U.S. dollars. The average income of men was 28 355 U.S. dollars, compared to 18,816 U.S. dollars for women. The per capita income for the city was 16,275 U.S. dollars. 14.8 % of the population and 11.5% of families had affected an income below the poverty line, including 15.9 % of minors and 12.0 % of those age 65 or over.