Plummer (Minnesota)
Red Lake County
27-51712
Plummer is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Red Lake County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Plummer had 292 inhabitants.
Geography
Plummer is located in northwestern Minnesota on the Clearwater River, a tributary of the opening into the Red River of the North Red Lake River. The geographical coordinates of 47 ° 54'41 Plummer are " north latitude and 96 ° 02'30 " west longitude. The site covers an area of 7.25 km ².
Towns nearby Plummer are Thief River Falls ( 27.9 km NNW ) Oklee (22 km southwest), Brooks ( 11.7 km SSE ), Red Lake Falls ( 22.4 km to the west ) and St. Hilaire (25.4 km to the northwest ).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (171 km south-west ), Grand Forks ( 92.8 km to the west ), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (255 km north-northwest ), Duluth Lake Superior ( 365 km east-southeast ) and Minneapolis ( 445 km to the southeast ).
The border with Canada is located 138 km north.
Traffic
From northwest to southeast of U.S. Highway 59 runs as the main road through Plummer. All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In parallel to U.S. 59, a railroad line of the Canadian Pacific Railway runs through Plummer.
With the Thief River Falls Regional Airport is located 27 kilometers north-northwest of the nearest regional airport. The nearest major airports are the Hector International Airport in Fargo (177 km southwest), the Grand Forks International Airport (105 km west), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (263 km north-northwest ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 469 km to the southeast ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Plummer 292 people in 128 households. The population density was 40.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 128 households lived statistically 2.28 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.2 percent white and 1.7 percent of Native Americans; 2.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
28.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 11.3 percent were 65 years or older. 48.3 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 50,000. The per capita income was $ 23,821. 11.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.