Lennox, South Dakota

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Lennox
Lennox town center
Lennox town center
Location in South Dakota
Location of Lonnox in Lincoln County (left) and South Dakota (right)
Basic data
Foundation : 1889 (incorporated)
State : United States
State : South Dakota
County : Lincoln County
Coordinates : 43 ° 21 ′  N , 96 ° 54 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 21 ′  N , 96 ° 54 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 2,111 (as of 2010)
Population density : 622.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 3.39 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 410 m
Postal code : 57039
Area code : +1 605
FIPS : 46-36380
GNIS ID : 1256091
Website : www.cityoflennoxsd.com
Mayor : Orville Wiebers

Lennox is a small town (with the status " City ") in Lincoln County in US -amerikanischen State South Dakota . In 2010 Lennox had 2,111 inhabitants.

geography

Lennox is located in southeast South Dakota, around 30 km west of the Big Sioux River , which forms the border with Iowa . The geographical coordinates of Lennox are 43 ° 21'15 "north latitude and 96 ° 53'31" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of ​​3.39 km².

Neighboring towns to Lennox are Tea (14.8 km northeast), Harrisburg (15.4 km northeast), Worthing (13.2 km east-southeast), Davis (19.3 km southwest), Hurley (15.8 miles west-southwest), and Chancellor (8.5 km west-northwest).

The closest major cities are Sioux Falls (35 km northeast), Minneapolis , Minnesota (415 km east-northeast), Rochester (413 km east), Iowa's capital Des Moines (438 km southeast), Omaha , Nebraska (280 km south) and Fargo in North Dakota (418 km north).

traffic

A few kilometers east of Lennox is Interstate 29 , which runs from Kansas City in Missouri to Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba . South Dakota Highways 17 and 44 meet in the southeast of the Lennox metropolitan area . All roads within the urban area are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads or inner-city connecting roads.

A railway line of the BNSF Railway runs through the city of Lennox in a north-west-south-east direction for freight traffic .

The nearest airport is Sioux Falls Regional Airport , 23 miles northeast, South Dakota's largest airport.

Demographic data

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1880 89 -
1890 363 307.9%
1900 591 62.8%
1910 745 26.1%
1920 1074 44.2%
1930 1113 3.6%
1940 1164 4.6%
1950 1218 4.6%
1960 1353 11.1%
1970 1487 9.9%
1980 1827 22.9%
1990 1767 -3.3%
2000 2037 15.3%
2010 2111 3.6%
2012 estimate 2201 4.3%
1880-2000 2010 2012

According to the 2010 census , Lennox had 2,111 people in 842 households. The population density was 622.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.41 people lived in each of the 842 households.

The racial the population was composed of 98.2 percent white, 0.1 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American and 0.4 percent Asian; 0.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.1 percent of the population.

26.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.0 percent were 65 years or older. 50.6 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 50,944  USD . The per capita income was $ 25,745. 8.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Web links

Commons : Lennox (South Dakota)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. history.sd.gov - Towns (PDF; 45kB) Retrieved July 3, 2013
  2. a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved July 3, 2013
  3. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed July 3, 2013
  4. ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved July 3, 2013
  5. US Census Bureau - Estimate for 2012 ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 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 3, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.census.gov