Fergus Falls
| Fergus Falls | |
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 Fergus Falls Town Hall |
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| Location in Minnesota | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1857 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Minnesota |
| County : | Otter Tail County |
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 17 ′ N , 96 ° 5 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 13,138 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 359.6 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 39.81 km 2 (approx. 15 mi 2 ) of which 36.54 km 2 (approx. 14 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 360 m |
| Postal code : | 56537 |
| Area code : | +1 218 |
| FIPS : | 27-20906 |
| GNIS ID : | 643602 |
| Website : | www.ci.fergus-falls.mn.us |
| Mayor : | Hal Leland |
Fergus Falls is a city (with the status " City ") and the administrative center of Otter Tail County of middle-northwest US -amerikanischen state of Minnesota . In 2010 , Fergus Falls had 13,138 residents.
geography
Fergus Falls lies on either side of the Otter Tail River , one of the two headwaters of the Red River of the North . The city is located at 46 ° 16'59 "north latitude and 96 ° 04'39" west longitude and extends over 39.81 km², which is spread over 36.54 km² of land and 3.27 km² of water.
Neighboring locations to Fergus Falls are Elizabeth (8 miles northwest), Underwood (11 miles east), Dalton (12 miles southeast), Foxhome (11 miles west), and Rothsay (29.4 miles northwest).
The closest major cities are Fargo in North Dakota (96.3 km northwest), Duluth on Lake Superior (336 km east), Minneapolis (287 km southeast), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (305 km southeast) and Sioux Falls in South Dakota ( 383 km south).
traffic
The most important artery for road traffic is Interstate 94 , which runs through the western districts of Fergus Falls on a joint route with US Highways 52 and 59 . Minnesota State Routes 210 and 297 meet in downtown . All other roads are subordinate partly unpaved roads as well as inner-city roads.
In Fergus Falls, two railway lines cross the Otter Tail Valley Railroad , a small railway company belonging to RailAmerica .
With the Fergus Falls Municipal Airport there is a small airfield in the west of the city area. The nearest major airport is Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (304 km southeast).
history
In 1857 Joe Whitford was sent by his employer James Fergus to find a suitable place for a new settlement. The site found was named Fergus Falls in memory of its client .
In 1870 George B. Wright bought the site in order to establish a regional economic center here. He built a dam across the river to generate hydropower for a sawmill. In March 1872 Fergus Falls received a parish charter and got the official parish status "Village". At the same time, the place became the administrative seat of Otter Tail County.
In March 2017, the journalist Claas Relotius published a detailed report on Fergus Falls in the news magazine Der Spiegel . In December 2018 it turned out that Relotius had invented large amounts of content for this and other reports. He had falsely claimed that there was a sign at the entrance to Fergus Falls with the words “Mexicans Keep Out” (“Mexicans, stay away”). Two residents of the city then listed eleven misrepresentations about the city on the Internet. Der Spiegel apologized to the residents and again sent a reporter to the city, who let the residents have their say in his article.
Demographic data
| Population development | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1880 | 1635 | - | |
| 1890 | 3772 | 130.7% | |
| 1900 | 6072 | 61% | |
| 1910 | 6887 | 13.4% | |
| 1920 | 7581 | 10.1% | |
| 1930 | 9389 | 23.8% | |
| 1940 | 10,848 | 15.5% | |
| 1950 | 12,917 | 19.1% | |
| 1960 | 13,733 | 6.3% | |
| 1970 | 12,443 | -9.4% | |
| 1980 | 12,519 | 0.6% | |
| 1990 | 12,362 | -1.3% | |
| 2000 | 13,471 | 9% | |
| 2010 | 13,138 | -2.5% | |
| 1880-2000 2010 | |||
According to the 2010 census , Fergus Falls had 13,138 people in 5814 households. The population density was 359.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.15 people lived in each of the 5814 households.
The racial the population was composed of 95.5 percent white, 1.1 percent African American, 0.8 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and 0.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.6 percent of the population.
21.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 22.2 percent were 65 years or older. 53.0 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 38,673 USD . The per capita income was $ 23,809. 18.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
sons and daughters of the town
- Frank Albertson (1909–1964), actor (including Psycho , Isn't life beautiful? )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved March 9, 2013
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on March 9, 2013
- ↑ Fergus Falls - Arts & Culture , accessed December 24, 2018.
- ↑ Ullrich Fichtner : SPIEGEL discloses fraud in its own house. In: Der Spiegel. December 19, 2018, accessed December 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Michele Anderson, Jake Krohn: Der Spiegel journalist messed with the wrong small town. Medium.com, December 19, 2018, accessed December 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Christoph Scheuermann: Fergus Falls In a fantastic city. In: Spiegel Online from December 23, 2018.
- ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved March 9, 2013
