Oklee

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Oklee
Red Lake County Minnesota Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Oklee Highlighted.svg
Location in Minnesota
Basic data
State : United States
State : Minnesota
County : Red Lake County
Coordinates : 47 ° 50 ′  N , 95 ° 51 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′  N , 95 ° 51 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 435 (as of 2010)
Population density : 280.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 1.55 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 351 m
Postal code : 56742
Area code : +1 218
FIPS : 27-48202
GNIS ID : 648913

Oklee is a small town (with the status " City ") in the Red Lake County in the US -amerikanischen State Minnesota . In 2010 , Oklee had 435 residents.

geography

Oklee is located in northwest Minnesota on the Lost River , a tributary of the Red Lake River, which flows into the Red River of the North . The geographical coordinates of Oklee are 47 ° 50'21 "north latitude and 95 ° 51'16" west longitude. The place extends over an area of ​​1.55 km².

Neighboring locations to Oklee are Trail (11.8 miles southeast), Brooks (13.8 km west southwest), and Plummer ( 13.8 km northwest).

The closest major cities are Fargo in North Dakota (179 km southwest), Grand Forks (109 km west), Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba (278 km north-northwest), Duluth on Lake Superior (349 km east-southeast) and Minneapolis (448 km southeast ).

The Canadian border is 139 km north.

traffic

The Minnesota State Route 122 runs north-south through Oklee. All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roads as well as inner-city connecting roads.

A Canadian Pacific Railway runs through Oklee in a northwest-southeast direction .

With the Thief River Falls Regional Airport is located 48 km north west of the nearest regional airport. The nearest major airports are Hector International Airport in Fargo (182 km southwest), Grand Forks International Airport (123 km west), Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (286 km northwest) and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (471 km west) km southeast).

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Oklee had 435 people in 195 households. The population density was 280.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.23 people lived in each of the 195 households.

The racial the population was composed of 88.3 percent white, 9.0 percent Native American and 0.2 percent (one person) Asian; 2.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.7 percent of the population.

24.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 21.4 percent were 65 years or older. 49.4 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 36,563  USD . The per capita income was $ 18,036. 12.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved June 12, 2013
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed June 12, 2013

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