Warroad

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Warroad
Roseau County Minnesota Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Warroad Highlighted.svg
Location in Minnesota
Basic data
State : United States
State : Minnesota
County : Roseau County
Coordinates : 48 ° 54 ′  N , 95 ° 19 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′  N , 95 ° 19 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 1,781 (as of 2010)
Population density : 237.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 7.51 km 2  (approx. 3 mi 2 )
Height : 325 m
Postal code : 56763
Area code : +1 218
FIPS : 27-68224
GNIS ID : 653790

Warroad is a small town (with the status " City ") in Roseau County in the US -amerikanischen State Minnesota . In 2010 Warroad had 1781 residents.

geography

Warroad is located in northwest Minnesota on the southwestern shore of Lake of the Woods . The geographical coordinates of Roseau are 48 ° 54'19 "north latitude and 95 ° 18'52" west longitude. The city extends over an area of ​​7.51 km².

Neighboring locations to Warroad are Roosevelt (20.8 km southeast), Roseau (35.5 km west), Sprague (33.9 km northwest) and the Canadian Indian reservation Buffalo Point (23.9 km northwest).

The nearest major cities are Fargo in North Dakota (318 km south-southwest), Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba (204 km northwest), Thunder Bay in the Canadian province of Ontario on Lake Superior (499 km east), Duluth on Lake Superior (404 km southeast) and Minneapolis (554 km south).

The border with Canada is 12.1 km north-northwest.

traffic

Minnesota State Routes 11 and 310 meet in the urban area of ​​Warroad . All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roads as well as inner-city connecting roads.

A Canadian National Railway runs through the urban area of ​​Warroad in a northwest-southeast direction .

The Warroad International Airport is a small airfield in the northern part of the city. The nearest regional airports are Falls International Airport in International Falls (158 km east) and Grand Forks International Airport in North Dakota (233 km southwest). The nearest major airports are Hector International Airport in Fargo , North Dakota (321 km south-southwest), Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (213 km northwest) and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (577 km south).

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1910 927 -
1920 1211 30.6%
1930 1184 -2.2%
1940 1309 10.6%
1950 1276 -2.5%
1960 1309 2.6%
1970 1086 -17%
1980 1216 12%
1990 1679 38.1%
2000 1722 2.6%
2010 1781 3.4%
1910-2000 2010

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Warroad had 1,781 people in 764 households. The population density was 237.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.27 people lived in each of the 764 households.

The racial the population was composed of 83.3 percent white, 0.1 percent (two people) African American, 5.7 percent Native American, 8.5 percent Asian and 2.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.0 percent of the population.

25.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.2 percent were 65 years or older. 50.0 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 45,307  USD . The per capita income was $ 23,813. 13.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Personalities

  • Sheila Terry (1910–1957), actress
  • Gigi Marvin (* 1987), ice hockey player
  • Gerald Hangsleben (* 1955), German-American ice hockey player

Individual evidence

  1. a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved June 19, 2013
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed June 19, 2013
  3. ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved June 19, 2013

Web links

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