Hill City, Minnesota

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Hill City
Aitkin County Minnesota Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Hill City Highlighted.svg
Location in Minnesota
Basic data
State : United States
State : Minnesota
County : Aitkin County
Coordinates : 47 ° 0 ′  N , 93 ° 36 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 0 ′  N , 93 ° 36 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 633 (as of 2010)
Population density : 160.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 3.94 km 2  (approx. 2 mi 2 )
Height : 408 m
Postal code : 55748
Area code : +1 218
FIPS : 27-29096
GNIS ID : 644967

Hill City is a small town (with the status " City ") in Aitkin County in the US -amerikanischen State Minnesota . In 2010 Hill City had 633 residents.

geography

Hill City is northeast of the geographic center of Minnesota on Hill Lake at 46 ° 59'36 "north latitude and 93 ° 35'55" west longitude. The place extends over 3.94 km².

Neighboring towns to Hill City are Grand Rapids (17 miles north), Jacobson (16 miles east), Waukenabo (17 miles south), Swatara (9 miles southwest), and Remer (17 miles west northwest).

The closest major cities are Minneapolis (257 km south), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (271 km south-southeast), Eau Claire in Wisconsin (373 km southeast), Duluth on Lake Superior (127 km east) and Fargo in North Dakota (259 km west ).

The border with Canada is 200 km north.

traffic

US Highway 169 runs through Hill City in a north-south direction . Minnesota State Routes 200 crosses on the western outskirts . All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roads as well as inner-city connecting roads.

The Hill City - Quadna Mountain Airport is a small airfield in the south of the city area. The nearest major airport is Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, 281 km south .

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Hill City had 633 people in 271 households. The population density was 160.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.3 people lived in each of the 271 households.

The racial the population was composed of 94.5 percent white, 0.2 percent (one person) African American and 2.5 percent Native American; 2.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.2 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

26.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 53.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.4 percent were 65 years or older. 53.2 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 25,658  USD . The per capita income was $ 13,368. 30.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved March 26, 2013
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on March 26, 2013

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