Grand Forks
| Grand Forks | |
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| Nickname : The Grand Cities, The Forks, The Sunflake City | |
 Square in the city center |
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| Location in North Dakota | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1870/1881 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | North Dakota |
| County : | Grand Forks County |
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 56 ′ N , 97 ° 2 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
57,339 (as of 2016) 102,743 (as of 2016) |
| Population density : | 1,149.1 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 49.9 km 2 (approx. 19 mi 2 ) |
| Height : | 257 m |
| Postcodes : | 58201-58208 |
| Area code : | +1 701 |
| FIPS : | 38-32060 |
| GNIS ID : | 1029197 |
| Website : | www.grandforksgov.com |
| Mayor : | Michael R. Brown |
Grand Forks is a city (with the status " City ") and the administrative seat of Grand Forks County in the US -amerikanischen State North Dakota . In 2010 Grand Forks had 52,838 residents, making it the third largest city in North Dakota. Until the estimate in 2012, the population had increased to 53,456.
Grand Forks is the core city of the Greater Grand Forks metropolitan area , which stretches on both sides of the border between North Dakota and Minnesota and consists essentially of Grand Forks and the neighboring city of East Grand Forks in Minnesota.
geography
Grand Forks is located in eastern North Dakota on the Red River of the North , which forms the border with Minnesota. The geographic coordinates of Grand Forks are 47 ° 55'31 "north latitude and 97 ° 01'57" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 49.9 km 2 .
Neighboring locations of Grand Forks include East Grand Forks on the opposite bank of the Red River Fisher in Minnesota (14 miles southeast), Thompson (14 miles southwest), Grand Forks Air Force Base (19 miles west) and Manvel (21.1 km northwest).
The nearest major cities are Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba (236 km north), Duluth in Minnesota on Lake Superior (430 km east-southeast), Minneapolis in Minnesota (506 km southeast), Fargo (130 km south) and North Dakota's capital Bismarck ( 401 km west-southwest).
The Canadian border is 125 km north.
traffic
Interstate 29 runs through the west of Grand Forks in a north-south direction and is the shortest connection from Winnipeg to Kansas City in Missouri . The US, Highway 81, runs congruently with the I 29 . US Highway 2 runs through the urban area of Grand Forks in a west-east direction and then leaves the state in an easterly direction over a bridge over the Red River. All other roads within the urban area are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
Several BNSF Railway lines meet at the Grand Forks junction .
The Grand Forks International Airport is located 12.9 km west-northwest of the city center. The nearest major airports are Hector International Airport in Fargo (125 km south) and Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (238 km north).
history
The place was first settled by a steamboat captain named Alexander Griggs. It was previously an Indian trading post . The name "Grand Forks" (division of the Red River and Red Lake River) was first mentioned in 1870. Grand Forks has been home to the University of North Dakota since 1883 . It is also an air force base, but Grand Forks Air Force Base is to be closed with the IATA airport code RDR . Until the planned destruction of the Minuteman - missile silos as a result of partial disarmament in the 1990s were the Minuteman- ICBMs in Grand Forks part of the strategic nuclear arsenal of the United States. Today there are no ICBMs stationed in Grand Forks . In 1997 the city was heavily flooded and destroyed.
Demographic data
| Population development | |||
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1880 | 1705 | - | |
| 1890 | 4979 | 192% | |
| 1900 | 7682 | 54.3% | |
| 1910 | 12,478 | 62.4% | |
| 1920 | 14,010 | 12.3% | |
| 1930 | 17.112 | 22.1% | |
| 1940 | 20,228 | 18.2% | |
| 1950 | 26,836 | 32.7% | |
| 1960 | 34,451 | 28.4% | |
| 1970 | 39.008 | 13.2% | |
| 1980 | 43,765 | 12.2% | |
| 1990 | 49,425 | 12.9% | |
| 2000 | 49,321 | -0.2% | |
| 2010 | 52,838 | 7.1% | |
| 2012 estimate | 53,456 | 1.2% | |
| 1880-2000 2010 2012 | |||
According to the 2010 census , Grand Forks had 52,838 people in 22,260 households. The population density was 1058.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.21 people lived in each of the 22,260 households.
The racial the population was composed of 89.7 percent white, 2.0 percent African American, 2.9 percent Native American, 2.2 percent Asian and 0.7 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.
18.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 71.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 10.1 percent were 65 years or older. 48.8 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 46,050 USD . The per capita income was $ 25,807. 16.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
education
Grand Forks is home to the University of North Dakota , the largest and oldest university in North Dakota .
sons and daughters of the town
- Walter Maddock (1880–1951), Governor of North Dakota
- Mancur Olson (1932-1998), economist
- James Rosenquist (1933-2017), pop art painter
- Leonard Peltier (* 1944), an activist of the American Indian Movement who has been imprisoned since 1977 and sentenced to life imprisonment
- Dickie Peterson (1946–2009), musician
- Lynn Anderson (1947-2015), country singer
- Paul Wehage (* 1963), composer and saxophonist
- Grant Potulny (* 1980), ice hockey player and coach
- Andy Schneider (* 1981), ice hockey player
- Nicole Linkletter (* 1985), winner of the fifth season of America's Next Top Model
Town twinning
- Ishim in the West Siberian Oblast of Tyumen , Russia
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved July 22, 2013
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on July 29, 2013
- ↑ AirNav.com - Grand Forks International Airport Retrieved on July 29, 2013
- ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved July 29, 2013
- ↑ 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 July 29, 2013
