Morton County, North Dakota

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The Morton County Courthouse in Mandan
The Morton County Courthouse in Mandan
administration
US state : North Dakota
Administrative headquarters : Mandan
Address of the
administrative headquarters: 		County Courthouse
210 2nd Avenue, NW
Mandan, ND 58554-3124
Foundation : 1873
Area code : 001 701
Demographics
Residents : 27,471  (2010)
Population density : 5.5 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area : 5038 km²
Water surface : 49 km²
map
Map of Morton County within North Dakota
Website : www.co.morton.nd.us

The Morton County is a county in the state of North Dakota of the United States . The county seat is Mandan .

geography

The county is located southwest of the geographic center of North Dakota and has an area of ​​5038 square kilometers, of which 49 square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Oliver County , Burleigh County , Emmons County , Sioux County , Grant County , Stark County, and Mercer County .

The 290 kilometers long Heart River flows into the Missouri River at Mandan .

history

Morton County was formed on January 8, 1873. It was named after Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton , a governor of Indiana .

The Lewis and Clark Hotel is one of ten entries for the county on the National Register of Historic Places .

Ten buildings and sites in the county are listed in the National Register of Historic Places (as of March 29, 2018).

Demographic data

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1880 200 -
1890 4728 2,264%
1900 8069 70.7%
1910 25,289 213.4%
1920 18,714 -26%
1930 19,647 5%
1940 20.184 2.7%
1950 19,295 -4.4%
1960 20,992 8.8%
1970 20,310 -3.2%
1980 25,177 24%
1990 23,700 -5.9%
2000 25,303 6.8%
2010 27,471 8.6%
Before 1900

1900-1990 2000

Morton County's Pyramid of Age

As of the 2000 census , Morton County had 25,303 people in 9,889 households and 6,932 families. The population density was 5 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 95.82 percent white, 0.16 percent African American, 2.39 percent Native American, 0.30 percent Asian, 0.01 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 0.16 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.16 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.65 percent of the population.

Of the 9,889 households, 34.9 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 58.2 percent were married couples living together, 8.5 percent were single mothers, 29.9 percent were non-families, 25.7 percent were single households, and 10.9 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 3.03.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 27.0 percent of residents under 18 years of age, 7.8 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 28.2 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, 22.4 percent between 45 and 64 years of age 14.6 percent were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 99.3 males. For every 100 women aged 18 or over there were statistically 96.3 men.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 37,028 , and the median income for a family is $ 44,592. Males had a median income of $ 30,698 versus $ 21,301 for females. The per capita income was $ 17,202. 6.8 percent of families and 9.6 percent families lived below the poverty line. 11.0 percent of these were children or adolescents under 18 years of age and 14.3 percent were people over 65 years of age.

Attractions

See also

Web links

Commons : Morton County (North Dakota)  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GNIS-ID: 1034207. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).
  2. ↑ Charles Curry Aiken, Joseph Nathan Kane: The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010 . 6th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8762-6 , p. 217 .
  3. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 29, 2018.
  4. ^ US Census Bureau _ Census of Population and Housing . Retrieved February 17, 2011
  5. ↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 21, 2011
  6. ↑ Excerpt from factfinder.census.gov.Retrieved February 21, 2011
  7. ^ Morton County, North Dakota , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .

Coordinates: 46 ° 43 ′  N , 101 ° 17 ′  W