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Northern Pacific Railroad Shops Historic District in Brainerd, Minnesota.
Official seal of Brainerd, Minnesota Location of the town/city of Brainerdwithin Crow Wing Countyin the state of Minnesota Location of the town/city of Brainerd in the state of Minnesota Brainerd, Minnesota is positioned in Minnesota Brainerd, Minnesota - Brainerd, Minnesota Location of the town/city of Brainerd State Minnesota Brainerd is a town/city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States.
Its populace was 13,592 as of the 2010 census. It is the governmental center of county of Crow Wing County, and is one of the biggest cities in Central Minnesota.
Brainerd straddles the Mississippi River a several miles upstream from its confluence with the Crow Wing River, having been established as a site for a barns crossing above said confluence.
Brainerd is the principal town/city of the Brainerd Micropolitan Area, a micropolitan region covering Cass and Crow Wing counties and with a combined populace of 91,067 as of the 2010 census.
The Brainerd region serves as a primary tourist destination for Minnesota, and Baxter is a county-wide retail center.
Brainerd is the home to one of five medevac helicopter flight stations in the state for "Air - Care," directed by North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, a Level 1 Trauma Center.
The town/city is also known for the Brainerd International Raceway, which hosts competitions incessantly throughout the year and has a nationwide drag racing meet annually in August.
The region that is now Brainerd was originally territory inhabited by the Ojibwe.
Brainerd was first seen by European pioneer on Christmas Day in 1805, when Zebulon Pike stopped there while searching for the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
Minnesota Highway 210 in downtown Brainerd serves as a motif of the improve Brainerd was the idea of Northern Pacific barns president John Gregory Smith, who in 1870 titled the township after his wife, Anne Eliza Brainerd Smith, and father-in-law, Lawrence Brainerd.
The business assembled a bridge over the Mississippi seven miles north of Crow Wing Village and used the Brainerd station as a machine and car shop, prompting many to move north and abandon Crow Wing.
Brainerd was organized as a town/city on March 6, 1873. On January 11, 1876, the state council revoked Brainerd's charter for six years, as a reaction to the election of small-town handyman Thomas Lanihan as mayor freshwater Judge C.B.
Brainerd functioned as a township in the interim.
Lumber and paper, as well as agriculture in general, were meaningful early industries, but for many decades Brainerd remained a barns town: in the 1920s roughly 90 percent of Brainerd inhabitants were dependent on the barns .
Participation in the nationwide barns strike on July 1, 1922, left the majority of Brainerd inhabitants unemployed and embittered many of those involved.
On October 27, 1933, the First National Bank of Brainerd became briefly famous when it was held up by Baby Face Nelson and his gang.
The BNSF Railway (successor to the Northern Pacific) continues to employ approximately 70 citizens in Brainerd at a maintenance-of-way equipment shop responsible for performing repairs and preventive maintenance to track and equipment.
The Northwest Paper Company assembled Brainerd's first paper foundry in 1903 and with the steady increase in tourism since the early 20th century the paper and service industries have turn into Brainerd's major employers.
Brainerd itself is now heavily advanced into commercial and residentiary areas and most new assembly in the region takes place in neighboring Baxter.
Brainerd is positioned just north of the geographical center of Minnesota in a mostly hilly terminal moraine region created by the Superior Lobe of the Labradorian ice sheet.
The town is situated in territory on both sides of the Mississippi River, though the older parts of Brainerd are almost all to the east.
Although the town/city itself has mostly several lakes, there are over 460 lakes inside 25 miles (40 km) of Brainerd, positioned mostly to the north.
For this reason, Crow Wing County and parts of the adjoining counties are often collectively referred to as the Brainerd Lakes Area.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.64 square miles (32.74 km2), of which 11.91 square miles (30.85 km2) is territory and 0.73 square miles (1.89 km2) is water. Brainerd has been assigned ZIP code 56401 by the USPS.
The following routes are positioned in the Brainerd area.
MN-25.svg Minnesota State Highway 25 MN-210.svg Minnesota State Highway 210 MN-371.svg Minnesota State Highway 371 Climate data for Brainerd, Minnesota 1981-2010 normals The Burlington Northern (Brainerd/Baxter) United States Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site is positioned on the boundary between the metros/cities of Brainerd and Baxter.
There were 5,851 homeholds of which 30.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 31.7% were married couples living together, 15.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.2% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 47.5% were non-families.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 95.83% White, 0.71% African American, 1.44% Native American, 0.46% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.26% from other competitions, and 1.29% from two or more competitions.
In 2016, Brainerd was reported to be the poorest town in Minnesota, with a median homehold income of $32,169. Radio stations and tv channels in the Brainerd Lakes Area.
1340 KVBR Brainerd Business Radio News/Talk 95.9 WWWI-FM - "KQ 96" Brainerd Classic rock, simulcasting KQDS-FM Duluth Brainerd also has a full power tv station that serves the area.
The Coen brothers' 1996 film Fargo was set primarily in Brainerd.
Win Borden Minnesota State Senator, lawyer, and businessman Bullet Joe Bush, MLB pitcher of early 20th Century, born in Brainerd.
Brainerd International Raceway Brainerd International Raceway United States Enumeration Bureau.
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