Brookings, South Dakota
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 Main Street in Brookings |
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| Location in South Dakota | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1883 (incorporated) |
| State : | United States |
| State : | South Dakota |
| County : | Brookings County |
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 19 ′ N , 96 ° 48 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 23,895 (as of 2016) |
| Population density : | 707.6 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 33.77 km 2 (approximately 13 mi 2 ) |
| Height : | 494 m |
| Postcodes : | 57006, 57007 |
| Area code : | +1 605 |
| FIPS : | 46-07580 |
| GNIS ID : | 1254074 |
| Website : | www.cityofbrookings.org |
| Mayor : | Tim Reed |
 The Brookings County Courthouse in Brookings, listed on the NRHP since 1976 |
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Brookings is a city (with the status " City ") and the administrative center of the Brookings County in the US -amerikanischen State South Dakota . In 2010 Brookings had 22,056 residents.
Brookings is home to South Dakota State University , the largest university in the state with over 12,000 students.
geography
Brookings is located in eastern South Dakota, not far from the Minnesota border . The geographical coordinates of Brookings are 44 ° 18'41 "north latitude and 96 ° 47'54" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 33.77 km 2 .
Neighboring locations to Brookings are White (15 miles northeast), Bushnell (8 miles east), Aurora (7.5 miles east-southeast), Medary (11.8 miles south), Volga (11.3 km west), and Bruce (20.6 km northwest).
The closest major cities are Sioux Falls (59.6 miles south), Fargo , North Dakota (306 km north), and Minnesota's largest city, Minneapolis (346 km east).
traffic
Interstate 29 , which runs through the eastern boroughs of Brookings, is the shortest route from Kansas City , Missouri, to Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba . The US Highway 14 leading west to east direction as the main road through the center of Brooking. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
In the northwest-southeast direction runs a railway line of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the urban area of Brookings.
Brookings Regional Airport is a regional airport in the western part of the city . The nearest major airports are Hector International Airport in Fargo (308 km north), Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (344 km east) and Eppley Airfield near Omaha (376 km south).
Demographic data
| Population development | |||
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1890 | 1518 | - | |
| 1900 | 2846 | 87.5% | |
| 1910 | 2971 | 4.4% | |
| 1920 | 3921 | 32% | |
| 1930 | 4376 | 11.6% | |
| 1940 | 5346 | 22.2% | |
| 1950 | 7764 | 45.2% | |
| 1960 | 10,558 | 36% | |
| 1970 | 13,717 | 29.9% | |
| 1980 | 14,951 | 9% | |
| 1990 | 16,270 | 8.8% | |
| 2000 | 18,504 | 13.7% | |
| 2010 | 22,056 | 19.2% | |
| 1890-2000 2010 | |||
According to the 2010 census , Brookings had 22,056 people in 8,159 households. The population density was 653.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.29 people lived in each of the 8159 households.
The racial the population was composed of 92.1 percent white, 1.1 percent African American, 1.0 percent Native American, 3.7 percent Asian and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.5 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.
16.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 75.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 8.4 percent were 65 years or older. 48.9 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 38,536 USD . The per capita income was $ 20,023. 24.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Sons of the city
- Gerald Brown (1926–2013), physicist and professor
- Larry Long (* 1947), lawyer and politician
- James H. Weaver (born 1927), politician
Individual evidence
- ↑ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 76001715. Retrieved June 8, 2013
- ↑ a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved June 8, 2013
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed June 8, 2013
- ↑ AirNav.com - KBKX Retrieved on June 8, 2013
- ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved June 8, 2013
