Red Lake Falls, Minnesota
Red Lake County
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Red Lake Falls is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) and administrative headquarters of the Red Lake County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Red Lake Falls had 1427 inhabitants.
Geography
Red Lake Falls is located at the mouth of the Clearwater River in the Red Lake River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.5 km ², which account for all of it land.
The Minnesota State Route 32 is the main thoroughfare of the town, Minnesota State Route 92 leads near by.
History
Red Lake Falls was in 1796 or 1797 a branch of the North West Company, and thus one of the first European settlements in what is now the state of Minnesota. The French-Canadian fur trader Jean Baptiste Cadotte, a son of fur trader Alexander Henry, founded the trading post as part of the strategy to prevent Hudson 's Bay Company on the further advance in the Red River Valley. At the beginning of the 19th century, the post was abandoned when the British fur traders withdrew from the United States.
The surrounding area was reclaimed by settlers of French descent, who were led by Pierre Bottineau. This came in 1876 from their temporary breakpoints in Ramsey and Hennepin County with bullock carts in the area. These pioneers were supplemented in 1878 by a number of French- Canadian settlers in Upper Canada. The area developed into a wheat growing area. 1878 founded Earnest Buse and his partner Otto Kankel at the confluence of the two rivers a flour mill.
The city flourished in the 1880s and 1890s, when both the Northern Pacific Railroad and the Great Northern Railway completed their rail lines through the city - both routes are now retired - and was split off from the Red Lake County Polk County in 1896. Red Lake Falls is the county seat of the newly established counties. The largest population reached the city in 1900; it has since declined.
The last major event in the place was on 27 August 1927, the landing of Charles Lindberg and his wife at the nearby airfield. The Lindberg were on a journey through the upper Midwest.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Red Lake Falls in 1427 people in 615 households. The population density was 259.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 615 households lived statistically 2.27 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.1 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.3 percent and 0.8 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 2.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 4.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.7 percent were 65 years or older. 50.5 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 37,083. The per capita income was $ 23,201. 14.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.