Volga (South Dakota)
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Location in South Dakota
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Basic data | |
Foundation : | 1903 (incorporated) |
State : | United States |
State : | South Dakota |
County : | Brookings County |
Coordinates : | 44 ° 19 ′ N , 96 ° 56 ′ W |
Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
Residents : | 1,768 (as of 2010) |
Population density : | 749.2 inhabitants per km 2 |
Area : | 2.36 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) |
Height : | 498 m |
Postal code : | 57071 |
Area code : | +1 605 |
FIPS : | 46-67700 |
GNIS ID : | 1258770 |
Website : | www.volgacity.com |
Mayor : | Mary Bjerke |
The Brookings County Museum in Volga |
Volga is a small town (with the status " City ") in Brookings County in the US -amerikanischen State South Dakota . In 2010 Volga had 1768 inhabitants.
geography
Volga is located in eastern South Dakota, around one kilometer west of the Big Sioux River . The Minnesota border is around 25 miles east. The geographical coordinates of Volga are 44 ° 19'25 "north latitude and 96 ° 55'35" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 2.36 km².
Neighboring towns to Volga are Bruce (10.4 miles northeast), Brookings (7.1 miles east), Nunda (16.9 miles southwest), Sinai (11 miles in the same direction), and Arlington (13 miles west-northwest) .
The closest major cities are Sioux Falls (108 km south), Fargo in North Dakota (314 km north), and Minnesota's largest city, Minneapolis (352 km east-northeast).
traffic
Interstate 29 , which is the shortest connection from Kansas City in Missouri to Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba , runs around 15 km east of Volga . The US Highway 14 leading west to east direction as the main road through the city of Volga. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
A Canadian Pacific Railway runs west-east through the urban area of Volga.
With the Brookings Regional Airport is located 11.3 km east a small airfield. The nearest major airports are Sioux Falls Regional Airport (104 km south), Hector International Airport in Fargo (317 km north) and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (348 km east-northeast).
Demographic data
Population development | |||
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Census | Residents | ± in% | |
1880 | 287 | - | |
1890 | 298 | 3.8% | |
1900 | 396 | 32.9% | |
1910 | 568 | 43.4% | |
1920 | 600 | 5.6% | |
1930 | 604 | 0.7% | |
1940 | 632 | 4.6% | |
1950 | 578 | -8.5% | |
1960 | 780 | 34.9% | |
1970 | 982 | 25.9% | |
1980 | 1221 | 24.3% | |
1990 | 1263 | 3.4% | |
2000 | 1435 | 13.6% | |
2010 | 1768 | 23.2% | |
2012 estimate | 1780 | 0.7% | |
1880-2000 2010 2012 |
According to the 2010 census , Volga had 1,768 people in 734 households. The population density was 749.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.41 people lived in each of the 734 households.
The racial the population was composed of 98.2 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.7 percent of the population.
26.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.5 percent were 65 years or older. 50.8 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 49,400 USD . The per capita income was $ 21,401. 12.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ history.sd.gov - Towns (PDF; 45kB) Retrieved July 8, 2013
- ↑ a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved July 8, 2013
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed July 8, 2013
- ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved July 8, 2013
- ↑ 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 8, 2013