Waubun

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Waubun
In the center of Waubun
In the center of Waubun
Location in Minnesota
Mahnomen County Minnesota Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Waubun Highlighted.svg
Basic data
State : United States
State : Minnesota
County : Mahnomen County
Coordinates : 47 ° 11 ′  N , 95 ° 56 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 11 ′  N , 95 ° 56 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 400 (as of 2010)
Population density : 303 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 1.32 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 380 m
Postal code : 56589
Area code : +1 218
FIPS : 27-68674
GNIS ID : 653849
Website : cityofwaubun.com
Mayor : Andrew Berg

Waubun is a small town (with the status " City ") in Mahnomen County in the US -amerikanischen State Minnesota . In 2010 Waubun had 400 inhabitants.

The city, like the entire county, is within the White Earth Indian Reservation of Anishinabe .

geography

Waubun is located in central northwest Minnesota at 47 ° 10'50 "north latitude and 95 ° 56'21" west longitude. The place extends over an area of ​​1.32 km².

Neighboring places of Waubun are Mahnomen (17 km north) and Ogema (9.9 km south).

The closest major cities are Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba (338 km north-northwest), Duluth on Lake Superior (335 km east), Minneapolis (363 km southeast) and Fargo in North Dakota (98.7 km southwest).

The Canadian border is 222 km north.

traffic

US Highway 59 , which runs in a north-south direction, and Minnesota State Route 200 cross on the southeastern outskirts . All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

A Canadian Pacific Railway runs parallel to US 59 .

With the Mahnomen County Airport is located 9.6 kilometers north a small regional airport. The nearest international airports are Hector International Airport in Fargo (95 km southwest), Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (346 km northwest) and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (386 km southeast).

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , 400 people in 160 households lived in Waubun. The population density was 303 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.5 people lived in each of the 160 households.

The racial the population was composed of 46.0 percent white, 0.3 percent (one person) African American, 33.3 percent Native American and 0.3 percent (one person) Asian; 20.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.0 percent of the population.

31.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 50.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.8 percent were 65 years or older. 57.0 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 33,083  USD . The per capita income was $ 19,571. 27.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved May 16, 2013
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on May 16, 2013

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