Horace (North Dakota)

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Horace
Horace, North Dakota.jpg
Location in North Dakota
Location of Horace in Cass County (left) and North Dakota (right)
Basic data
Foundation : 1882
State : United States
State : North Dakota
County : Cass County, North Dakota
Coordinates : 46 ° 46 ′  N , 96 ° 54 ′  W Coordinates: 46 ° 46 ′  N , 96 ° 54 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
Metropolitan Area :
2,430 (as of 2010)
212,171 (as of 2010)
Population density : 87.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 27.89 km 2  (approx. 11 mi 2 )
Height : 280 m
Postal code : 58047
Area code : +1 701
FIPS : 38-38900
GNIS ID : 1029530

Horace is a small town (with the status " City ") in Cass County in the US -amerikanischen State North Dakota . In 2010 Horace had 2,430 inhabitants.

Horace is part of the Fargo – Moorhead Metropolitan Area .

geography

Horace is located in the southwest suburbs of Fargo in southeast North Dakota. A few kilometers east of Horace flows the Red River of the North , which forms the border with Minnesota . The geographical coordinates of Horace are 46 ° 45'32 "north latitude and 96 ° 54'13" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of ​​27.89 km².

Fargo city center is 22 km northeast. Other neighboring towns of Horace are Moorhead , Minnesota (14 miles in the same direction), Sabin , Minnesota (16 miles east), Comstock , Minnesota (14 miles southeast), Oxbow (11 miles in the same direction) Direction), Kindred (20.8 km southwest), Davenport (17.8 km west southwest), and West Fargo (13.6 km north).

The closest major cities are Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba (376 km north), Duluth in Minnesota on Lake Superior (415 km east), Minneapolis , Minnesota (384 km southeast), Sioux Falls in South Dakota (382 km south) and North Dakota's capital Bismarck (313 km to the west).

The Canadian border is 160 miles north.

traffic

Interstate 29 runs around three kilometers east of Horace in a north-south direction . All roads within the urban area are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

A railway line of the Red River Valley and Western Railroad , a regional railway company that operates freight traffic on lines leased from the BNSF Railway, ends in Horace .

The nearest airport is the Hector International Airport in Fargo (24.6 km north-northeast).

Demographic data

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1950 190 -
1960 178 -6.3%
1970 276 55.1%
1980 494 79%
1990 662 34%
2000 915 38.2%
2010 2430 165.6%
2012 estimate 2496 2.7%
1950–2000 2010 2012

According to the 2010 census , Horace had 2,430 people in 810 households. The population density was 87.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 3.0 people lived in each of the 810 households.

The racial the population was composed of 97.1 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 1.4 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.9 percent of the population.

33.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 4.9 percent were 65 years or older. 49.4 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 91,071  USD . The per capita income was $ 42,218. 3.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved July 21, 2013
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on July 21, 2013
  3. ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved July 21, 2013
  4. 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 21, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.census.gov

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