Lake Bronson

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Lake Bronson
Kittson County Minnesota Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Lake Bronson Highlighted.svg
Location in Minnesota
Basic data
State : United States
State : Minnesota
County : Kittson County
Coordinates : 48 ° 44 ′  N , 96 ° 40 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′  N , 96 ° 40 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 229 (as of 2010)
Population density : 147.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 1.55 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 293 m
Postal code : 56734
Area code : +1 218
FIPS : 27-34136
GNIS ID : 646332
Website : cityoflakebronson.com
Mayor : Bobby Schmiedeberg

Lake Bronson is a small town (with the status " City ") in Kittson County in the US -amerikanischen State Minnesota . In 2010 Lake Bronson had 229 residents.

geography

Lake Bronson is located about two kilometers west of the lake of the same name in northwest Minnesota not far from the border with Canada in the north and North Dakota in the west. The place is at 48 ° 44'08 "north latitude, 96 ° 39'46" west longitude and extends over 1.55 km².

Neighboring towns to Lake Bronson are Lancaster (18.1 km northwest), Greenbush (38.5 km east), Halma (10.3 km southeast), and Hallock (14.5 km west northwest).

The nearest major cities are Fargo in North Dakota (150 miles south), Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba (148 miles northwest), Duluth on Lake Superior (471 miles southeast) and Minneapolis (552 miles southeast).

The border with Canada is 20 miles north.

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Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1910 101 -
1920 181 79.2%
1930 239 32%
1940 350 46.4%
1950 438 25.1%
1960 421 -3.9%
1970 325 -22.8%
1980 298 -8.3%
1990 272 -8.7%
2000 246 -9.6%
2010 229 -6.9%
1910-2000 2010

The US Highway 59 into a northwest-southeast direction as the main road through the Lake Bronson. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

Parallel to US 59 a railway line of the proceeds Canadian Pacific Railway belonging SOO Line Railroad by Lancaster.

With the Hallock Municipal Airport there is a small regional airfield 16 miles west of Lake Bronson. The nearest major airports are Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (155 km north-northwest), Hector International Airport in Fargo (244 km south) and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (576 km southeast).

Demographic data

As of the 2010 census , Lake Bronson had 229 people in 109 households. The population density was 147.7 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.1 people lived in each of the 109 households.

Ethnically, the population consisted only of whites with two exceptions.

22.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.3 percent were 65 years or older. 43.7 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 29,375  USD . The per capita income was $ 15,129. 19.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved May 5, 2013
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on May 5, 2013
  3. ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved May 5, 2013

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