Brainerd, Minnesota
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 Crow Wing County Courthouse in Brainerd |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1870 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Minnesota |
| County : | Crow Wing County |
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 21 ′ N , 94 ° 12 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 13,590 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 659.7 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 21.9 km 2 (approx. 8 mi 2 ) of which 20.6 km 2 (approx. 8 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 363 m |
| Postal code : | 56401 |
| Area code : | +1 218 |
| FIPS : | 27-07300 |
| GNIS ID : | 0640426 |
| Website : | www.ci.brainerd.mn.us |
| Mayor : | James E. Wallin |
 Water tower on Highway 210 |
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Brainerd is a city (with the status " City ") in Crow Wing County in the US -amerikanischen State Minnesota . In 2010 , Brainerd had 13,590 residents.
geography
Brainerd is located immediately north of the geographic center of Minnesota on the upper Mississippi . According to the United States Census Bureau , the area of the city is 21.9 square kilometers, of which 1.2 square kilometers are water.
Although there are only a few lakes within the city, there are over 460 lakes within 40 kilometers of Brainerd, most of them north of the city. This area is also called the Brainerd Lakes Area .
traffic
Brainerd is at the intersection of Minnesota State Highway 210 and Minnesota State Highway 371 . Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport , a regional airport with three runways and a helipad, is located around five kilometers northeast of the city . The only commercial airline is Mesaba Airlines , which operates as a subsidiary of Northwest Airlines flights to Minneapolis / St. Paul , Devils Lake and Jamestown .
history
Originally, the area around today's Brainerd belonged to the Ojibwe Indians. The first white discoverer was Zebulon Pike , who moved through the region on Christmas 1805 in search of the headwaters of the Mississippi River. With the Crow Wing Village , a fur and lumberjack camp near Fort Ripley , settlers came to the area since the mid-19th century.
At that time there were more conflicts between the Indians and white settlers. A well-known example is the so-called "Blueberry War" in 1872, when two Ojibwe were hanged as the suspected murderer of a missing girl. When a group of Indians visited the city, troops were called in from nearby Fort Ripley to avoid a feared clash. However, it turned out that the Ojibwe only wanted to sell blueberries in the city.
The name of the city comes from a chairman of the Northern Pacific Railway , J. Gregory Smith , who in 1870 named the newly established township after his wife, Ann Eliza Brainerd Smith and his father-in-law Lawrence Brainerd . The railway company had built a bridge over the Mississippi and used the Brainerd train station as a machine shop and workshop. On March 6, 1873, Brainerd became a city.
In 1876 the city status had to be given up again for six years. This was ordered by the state government when the local craftsman Thomas Lanihan was elected mayor instead of judge CB Sleeper. In the meantime, the city was thus a township again .
As the railroad grew, so did Brainerd. In addition to wood and paper , agricultural and industrial goods were also loaded by rail. In 1903 the Northwest Paper Company built a paper mill in Brainerd. Nevertheless, the railway retained a prominent position: in the 1920s, around 90 percent of the population were dependent on it. Subsequently, the importance of the railways slowly declined and employment in the service sector played a greater role.
On October 27, 1933, the First National Bank of Brainerd gained notoriety when it was ambushed by Babyface Nelson and his gang of criminals.
Demographic data
| Population development | |||
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1890 | 5703 | - | |
| 1900 | 7524 | 31.9% | |
| 1910 | 8526 | 13.3% | |
| 1920 | 9591 | 12.5% | |
| 1930 | 10,221 | 6.6% | |
| 1940 | 12,071 | 18.1% | |
| 1950 | 12,087 | 0.1% | |
| 1960 | 12,898 | 6.7% | |
| 1970 | 11,667 | -9.5% | |
| 1980 | 11,489 | -1.5% | |
| 1990 | 12,353 | 7.5% | |
| 2000 | 13,178 | 6.7% | |
| 2010 | 13,590 | 3.1% | |
| 1890-2000 2010 | |||
According to the 2010 census , Brainerd had 13,590 people in 5851 households. The population density was 659.7 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.23 people lived in each of the 5851 households.
The racial the population was composed of 93.5 percent white, 1.2 percent African American, 1.6 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and 0.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 3.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.1 percent were 65 years or older. 52.4 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 47,350 USD . The per capita income was $ 18,558. 6.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Sports
In the northwest of the city is the Brainerd International Raceway , which has a street course and a dragster race track.
In culture
Brainerd is the location of the feature film Fargo - Bloody Snow .
Parish partnership
There is a partnership with the French municipality of Magny-le-Hongre .
Personalities
- Chief Bender (1884–1954), major league baseball player
- Delos Wheeler Lovelace (1894–1967), writer and journalist
- Phil Mattson (1938 / 39–2019), jazz musician
- Bill Baker (born 1956), ice hockey defender
- Jammie Thomas (* 1977), file sharer
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved April 18, 2013
- ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved April 18, 2013
