Dassel (Minnesota)

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Location in Minnesota
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Basic data
State : United States
State : Minnesota
County : Meeker County
Coordinates : 45 ° 5 ′  N , 94 ° 18 ′  W Coordinates: 45 ° 5 ′  N , 94 ° 18 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 1,469 (as of 2010)
Population density : 358.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 4.1 km 2  (approx. 2 mi 2 )
Height : 329 m
Postal code : 55325
Area code : +1 320
FIPS : 27-14878
GNIS ID : 0642646
Website : dassel.com
Mayor : Jeff Putnam
Universal Laboratories.jpg
The Universal Laboratories Building in Dassel, built in 1937, listed in the NRHP since 1996

Dassel is a small town (with the status " City ") in Meeker County in US -amerikanischen State Minnesota . In 2010 Dassel had 1,469 inhabitants.

geography

US Highway 12 runs through Dassel, the place being halfway between Darwin to the west and Cokato to the east . Dassel has a total area of ​​4.1 km², of which around six percent is water. The place is embedded in flat hill country and lies on a lake.

history

The place consisted of huts in the middle of the 19th century that had been built by settlers from neighboring states and from Sweden . It was named in 1869 after Bernhard Dassel, a railway official who had emigrated from Germany , when a railway line extended westward from St. Paul reached the town. After the railway station opened, the population of Dassel grew rapidly.

Infrastructure

Dassel Elementary School and Comprehensive School were named Minnesota Schools of Excellence in 2004. The place has a public library. The fire brigade is organized as a volunteer fire brigade . It was founded in 1881.

Culture and sights

Dassel has three parks. A festival takes place in the Ballpark every year on Labor Day.

In the place there are Protestant and free church parishes as well as a Catholic parish.

Sports practiced in Dassel include mountain biking , horse riding and cross-country skiing .

In the old town on the railway line, the music pavilion from the time the town was founded has been restored.

The local history museum is located next to the community hall. The influence of the railroad on the development of the city is shown in the Railway Museum , in which a model of William Crook's steam locomotive can be seen, which first visited the town in 1869.

The warehouse of the former company "Universal Laboratories" is on the National Register of Historic Places . The head of the company, a former teacher named Peel, had noticed in the mid-1930s that the farmers in the area destroyed their rye when it was infected with ergot . Medical uses were already known for the ergot alkaloids formed in this way . To market this, he had the building built in 1937. The business was boosted by the fact that the previous suppliers failed, namely Russia because of the Russian Revolution and Spain because of the Spanish Civil War . With the support of customers such as Eli Lilly and Company , the company became the most important supplier in the USA during World War II. The company ceased operations in 1975. The building stood empty until the late 1990s and is now the seat of the regional historical society.

Demographic data

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1880 247 -
1890 552 123.5%
1900 568 2.9%
1910 643 13.2%
1920 804 25%
1930 785 -2.4%
1940 872 11.1%
1950 962 10.3%
1960 863 -10.3%
1970 1058 22.6%
1980 1066 0.8%
1990 1082 1.5%
2000 1233 14%
2010 1469 19.1%
1880-2000 2010

According to the 2010 census , there were 1,469 people in 572 households in Dassel. The population density was 358.3 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.46 people lived in each of the 572 households.

The racial the population was composed of 95.4 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 1.0 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and 1.0 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.0 percent of the population.

27.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 53.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.9 percent were 65 years or older.

The average annual income for a household was 39,490  USD . The per capita income was $ 19,706. 12.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

religion

The Lutheran Gethsemane Parish of Dassel was originally founded in 1873 in Steelesville , where it still has the cemetery today. There are also other parishes.

Web links

Commons : Dassel, Minnesota  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 96000191. Retrieved May 23, 2013
  2. a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved May 23, 2013
  3. ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved May 23, 2013
  4. Dassel Church Directory ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dasselenterprisedispatch.com