Walhalla (North Dakota)
Pembina County
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Walhalla is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Pembina County in the U.S. state of North Dakota. In 2010, Walhalla had 996 inhabitants.
Geography
Walhalla is located in northeastern North Dakota at Pembina River, a left tributary of the Red River of North, which forms the border with Minnesota. The geographical coordinates are 48 ° 55'24 Walhalla " north latitude and 97 ° 55'05 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 2.77 km ².
Towns nearby Walhalla are Neche (33,5 km ENE ), Cavalier (33,5 km southeast) and Winkler in the Canadian province of Manitoba (30,7 km to the north).
The nearest major cities are Winnipeg, Manitoba (157 km northeast), Duluth, Minnesota on Lake Superior ( 587 km east-southeast ), Grand Forks (159 km south-southeast ), Fargo (282 km in the same direction) and North Dakota capital of Bismarck ( 456 km southwest).
The border with Canada is located 9.1 km north.
Traffic
The North Dakota Highway 32 leads as the main road through Valhalla. All other streets within the city are subordinate roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
By Valhalla runs in a northwest-southeast direction, a railway of a regional railway company.
With the Walhalla Municipal Airport is located on the northeastern outskirts of a small airfield. The nearest major airports are the Grand Forks International Airport (159 km south-southeast ) and the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (152 km northeast).
History
The first white men in the region were French-speaking fur trappers and traders. The present city was founded in 1845, several decades before most of the other towns of North Dakota. In the surrounding area there were several trading posts of various fur trading companies. The best known today is the Gingras Trading Post State Historic Site, which dates back to Antoine Blanc Gingras, a people of Métis fur traders.
In the 1850s and 1860s, in addition to fur traders and farmers also Catholic missionaries arrived in the region who were converted unto the resident Indians to Catholicism.
The place was called the beginning of St. Joseph and was a county that stretched near the present Pembina County also most surrounding counties since 1862 administrative headquarters. In the same year a post office was opened.
In 1871 the city was renamed in Walhalla. In the 1880s, the town got a railway connection, which changed the character of the city into a center of agriculture. But even today plays the fur trade in addition to a number of other commercial a role in Walhalla.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Walhalla 996 people in 439 households. The population density was 359.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 439 households lived statistically 2.21 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 88.3 percent White, 0.1 percent (one person) Black or African American, 8.7 percent Native American and 0.2 percent ( two people) from other ethnic groups; 2.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
23.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 55.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.7 percent were 65 years or older. 48.6 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 40,966. The per capita income was $ 22,753. 15.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.