Pipestone

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Pipestone
Main Street in Pipestone
Main Street in Pipestone
Location in Minnesota
Pipestone County Minnesota Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Pipestone Highlighted.svg
Basic data
Foundation : 1876
State : United States
State : Minnesota
County : Pipestone County
Coordinates : 44 ° 0 ′  N , 96 ° 19 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 0 ′  N , 96 ° 19 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 4,021 (as of: 2018)
Population density : 371.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 10.83 km 2  (approx. 4 mi 2 )
Height : 529 m
Postal code : 56164
Area code : +1 507
FIPS : 27-51388
GNIS ID : 649527
Mayor : Myren Koets
PipestoneCC.jpg
The Pipestone County Courthouse in Pipestone, built in 1900, listed on the NRHP since 1980

Pipestone is a city with a status of " City " and the administrative seat of Pipestone County in the US state of Minnesota . In 2018, Pipestone had 4021 inhabitants.

geography

Pipestone is located in southwest Minnesota on the plateau called Coteau des Prairies , which extends to Iowa in the south and South Dakota in the west. The urban area extends over an area of ​​10.83 square kilometers.

Neighboring places of Pipestone are Holland 15 kilometers northeast, Woodstock 20 kilometers east, Hatfield 13 kilometers southeast, Trosky 15 kilometers south-southeast, Ihlen 12 kilometers southwest, Egan in South Dakota 29 kilometers west, Flandreau in South Dakota 29 kilometers west, Ward 28 kilometers northwest and Verdi 28 kilometers north.

The nearest major cities are Minneapolis and Minnesota's capital Saint Paul 320 and 330 kilometers east-northeast, Rochester 350 kilometers east, Iowa's capital Des Moines 480 kilometers southeast, Omaha in Nebraska 340 kilometers south, Sioux Falls in South Dakota 75 kilometers southwest and Fargo in north Dakota 380 kilometers north.

traffic

US Highway 75 and Minnesota State Routes 23 and 30 meet in Pipestone . All other roads are subordinate country roads, partly unpaved roads or inner-city connecting roads.

A railway line of the Marshall Subdivision , which is operated by the BNSF Railway , runs parallel to the MN 23 .

With the Pipestone Municipal Airport there is a small airfield in the south of the city area. The nearest major airports are Eppley Airfield near Omaha 334 kilometers south and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport 316 kilometers east-northeast.

Demographic data

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1890 1232 -
1900 2536 105.8%
1910 2475 -2.4%
1920 3325 34.3%
1930 3489 4.9%
1940 4682 34.2%
1950 5269 12.5%
1960 5324 1 %
1970 5328 0.1%
1980 4887 -8.3%
1990 4554 -6.8%
2000 4280 -6%
2010 4317 0.9%
1890-2000 2010

According to the 2010 census , Pipestone had 4,317 people in 1,923 households. The population density was 398.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.17 people lived in each of the 1923 households.

The racial the population was composed of 90.2 percent white, 0.9 percent African American, 1.9 percent Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and 3.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.2 percent of the population.

23.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 55.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.9 percent were 65 years or older. 53.4 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 39,884  US dollars . The per capita income was $ 22,609. 16 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Pipestone, Minnesota  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 80002121. Retrieved June 6, 2013
  2. Population Pipestone 2018. Accessed April 18, 2020 .
  3. Distance information according to Google Maps, accessed on June 6, 2013
  4. AirNav.com - KPQN, accessed on June 6, 2013
  5. US Decennial Census. Retrieved June 6, 2013
  6. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved June 6, 2013
  7. ^ Roy Alexander Gano , findagrave.com
  8. Roy Alexander Gano , arlingtoncemetery.net