Brooks, Minnesota
| Brooks | |
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 Location in Minnesota
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1904 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Minnesota |
| County : | Red Lake County |
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 49 ′ N , 96 ° 0 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 141 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 46.5 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 3.03 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) |
| Height : | 344 m |
| Postal code : | 56715 |
| Area code : | +1 218 |
| FIPS : | 27-08038 |
| GNIS ID : | 640513 |
Brooks is a small town (with the status " City ") in the Red Lake County in the US -amerikanischen State Minnesota . In 2010 Brooks had 141 residents.
geography
Brooks is located in northwest Minnesota on the Hill River , a tributary of the Red Lake River, which flows into the Red River of the North . The geographical coordinates of Brooks are 47 ° 49'02 "north latitude and 96 ° 00'21" west longitude. The place extends over an area of 3.03 km².
Neighboring towns to Brooks are Plummer (12.1 km northwest), Oklee (13.8 km east), Erskine (16.8 km south), Mentor (14.8 km southwest), and Red Lake Falls (16.9 km west northwest) ).
The closest major cities are Fargo in North Dakota (166 km southwest), Grand Forks (96.3 km west), Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba (266 km northwest), Duluth on Lake Superior (353 km east-southeast) and Minneapolis (434 km southeast).
The Canadian border is 149 km north.
traffic
US Highway 59, which runs north to south, crosses Minnesota State Route 92 in downtown Brooks . All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roads as well as inner-city connecting roads.
A Canadian Pacific Railway runs parallel to US 59 through Brooks.
The Thief River Falls Regional Airport is 38.4 km north-northwest, the nearest regional airport. The nearest major airports are Hector International Airport in Fargo (169 km southwest), Grand Forks International Airport (104 km west), Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (274 km northwest) and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (458 km north-northwest) km southeast).
Demographic data
According to the 2010 census , Brooks had 141 people in 60 households. The population density was 46.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.35 people lived in each of the 60 households.
Ethnically, the population consisted only of whites with five exceptions. Regardless of ethnicity, 0.7 percent (one person) of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.4 percent were 65 years or older. 50.4 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 32,679 USD . The per capita income was $ 15,787. 15.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved June 12, 2013
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed June 12, 2013