Alvarado, Minnesota

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Alvarado
Marshall County Minnesota Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Alvarado Highlighted.svg
Location in Minnesota
Basic data
State : United States
State : Minnesota
County : Marshall County
Coordinates : 48 ° 12 ′  N , 97 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′  N , 97 ° 0 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 363 (as of 2010)
Population density : 636.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 0.57 km 2  (approx. 0 mi 2 )
Height : 248 m
Postal code : 56710
Area code : +1 218
FIPS : 27-01252
GNIS ID : 639313

Alvarado is a small town (with the status " City ") in Marshall County in the US -amerikanischen State Minnesota . In 2010 Alvarado had 363 inhabitants.

geography

Alvarado is located in central northwest Minnesota on the east bank of the Snake River , a right tributary of the Red River of the North . The geographical coordinates are 48 ° 11'37 "north latitude and 96 ° 59'50" west longitude. The place extends over an area of ​​0.57 km².

Neighboring towns to Alvarado are Argyle (28.9 km northeast), Warren (16.9 km east) and Oslo (10.4 km west).

The nearest major cities are Fargo in North Dakota (162 km south), Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba (216 km north), Duluth on Lake Superior (458 km east-southeast) and Minneapolis (538 km southeast).

The Canadian border is 105 km north.

traffic

Minnesota State Routes 1 and 220 meet in the Alvarado metropolitan area . All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

A railway line of the Northern Plains Railroad runs through the urban area of ​​Alvarado in a west-east direction .

With the Warren Municipal Airport is located 21.5 km west of Alvarado a small regional airport. The nearest major airports are Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (218 km north), Hector International Airport in Fargo (158 km south) and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (562 km southeast).

Demographic data

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1910 128 -
1920 361 182%
1930 323 -10.5%
1940 336 4%
1950 317 -5.7%
1960 282 -11%
1970 302 7.1%
1980 385 27.5%
1990 356 -7.5%
2000 371 4.2%
2010 363 -2.2%
1910-2000 2010

According to the 2010 census , Alvarado had 363 people in 137 households. The population density was 636.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.65 people lived in each of the 137 households.

The racial the population was composed of 88.2 percent white, 0.3 percent (one person) African American, 0.3 percent (one person) Native American, 0.3 percent (one person) Asian and 9.6 percent other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 16.3 percent of the population.

27.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.2 percent were 65 years or older. 51.8 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 52,500  USD . The per capita income was $ 23,857. 7.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved May 20, 2013
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on May 20, 2013
  3. ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved May 20, 2013

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