Drayton, North Dakota

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Drayton
Drayton Drug.jpg
Location in North Dakota
Location of Drayton in Pembina County (left) and North Dakota (right)
Basic data
Foundation : 1878
State : United States
State : North Dakota
County : Pembina County
Coordinates : 48 ° 34 ′  N , 97 ° 11 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′  N , 97 ° 11 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 824 (as of 2010)
Population density : 490.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 1.68 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 245 m
Postal code : 58225
Area code : +1 701
FIPS : 38-20340
GNIS ID : 1028722
Website : www.draytonnd.com
Mayor : Ardis Olson

Drayton is a small town (with the status " City ") in Pembina County in the US -amerikanischen State North Dakota . In 2010 Drayton had 824 residents.

geography

Drayton is located in northeast North Dakota on the west bank of the Red River of North , which forms the border with Minnesota . The geographical coordinates of Drayton are 48 ° 34'16 "north latitude and 97 ° 10'40" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of ​​1.68 km².

Neighboring towns to Drayton are Donaldson , Minnesota (12 miles east), Stephen , Minnesota (22 miles southeast), Grafton (21 miles southwest), and St. Thomas (16 miles west northwest).

The closest major cities are Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba (100 miles north), Duluth , Minnesota on Lake Superior (499 km east-southeast), Grand Forks (76.7 km south), Fargo (200 km in the same direction), and North Dakota's capital Bismarck (475 km southwest).

The Canadian border is 50 km north.

traffic

Interstate 29 runs along the western outskirts of Drayton in a north-south direction and is the shortest connection from Winnipeg to Kansas City in Missouri . North Dakota Highway 66 runs in a west-east direction on the northern edge of the city . All other roads within the urban area are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

A railway line of the BNSF Railway runs through Drayton in north-south direction .

With the Drayton Municipal Airport there is a small airfield 6.9 km north. The nearest major airports are Grand Forks International Airport (81 km south) and Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (162 km north).

population

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1880 62 -
1890 318 412.9%
1900 688 116.4%
1910 587 -14.7%
1920 637 8.5%
1930 502 -21.2%
1940 688 37.1%
1950 875 27.2%
1960 940 7.4%
1970 1095 16.5%
1980 1082 -1.2%
1990 961 -11.2%
2000 913 -5%
2010 824 -9.7%
2012 estimate 806 -2.2%
1880-2000 2010 2012

According to the 2010 census , Drayton had 824 people in 389 households. The population density was 490.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.12 people lived in each of the 389 households.

The racial the population was composed of 98.3 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American and 0.1 percent (one person) from other ethnic groups; 0.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.5 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

20.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.5 percent were 65 years or older. 46.6 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 43,616  USD . The per capita income was $ 28,164. 6.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved August 2, 2013
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on August 2, 2013
  3. AirNav.com - Drayton Municipal Airport Accessed on August 2, 2013
  4. ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved August 2, 2013
  5. US Census Bureau - Estimate for 2012 ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 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. Retrieved August 2, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.census.gov

Web links

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