Eagle Lake, Minnesota

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Eagle Lake
Blue Earth County Minnesota Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Eagle Lake Highlighted.svg
Location in Minnesota
Basic data
State : United States
State : Minnesota
County : Blue Earth County
Coordinates : 44 ° 10 ′  N , 93 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 10 ′  N , 93 ° 53 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 2,422 (as of 2010)
Population density : 580.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 4.17 km 2  (approx. 2 mi 2 )
Height : 309 m
Postal code : 56024
Area code : +1 507
FIPS : 27-17378
GNIS ID : 643025

Eagle Lake is a small town (with the status " City ") in Blue Earth County in western US -amerikanischen state of Minnesota . In 2010 , Eagle Lake had 2,422 residents.

geography

Eagle Lake is located on the south bank of the lake of the same name at 44 ° 09'54 "north latitude and 93 ° 52'53" west longitude. The place extends over 4.17 km².

Neighboring towns to Eagle Lake are Mankato (6.4 miles west), Madison Lake (9.6 km northeast), Janesville (9.7 miles southeast), and St. Clair (7.1 miles south).

The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (135 km northeast), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (141 km in the same direction), Rochester (124 km east), Iowa's capital Des Moines (342 km south), Omaha , Nebraska (466 km southwest) , Sioux Falls , South Dakota (276 km west southwest), and Fargo , North Dakota (450 km northwest).

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Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1910 231 -
1920 231 0%
1930 222 -3.9%
1940 269 21.2%
1950 310 15.2%
1960 506 63.2%
1970 839 65.8%
1980 1470 75.2%
1990 1703 15.9%
2000 1787 4.9%
2010 2422 35.5%
1910-2000 2010

The four-lane US Highway 14 runs through the north of the city and is congruent with Minnesota State Route 60 here . All other roads within North Mankato are subordinate roads or inner-city connecting roads.

In a southwest-northeast direction, a Union Pacific Railroad runs through the urban area of ​​Eagle Lake.

The Mankato Regional Airport is (10,1 km northwest) of the nearest airfield. The nearest major airport is Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (130 km northeast).

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Eagle Lake had 2,422 people in 887 households. The population density was 580.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.73 people lived in each of the 887 households.

The racial the population was composed of 95.5 percent white, 1.4 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and 0.6 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

28.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 6.6 percent were 65 years or older. 49.5 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 65,455  USD . The per capita income was $ 27,611. 8.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved March 31, 2013
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed April 1, 2013
  3. ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved April 1, 2013

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