Crookston, Minnesota Crookston, Minnesota Official seal of Crookston, Minnesota Location of Crookstonwithin Polk County and state of Minnesota Location of Crookston Aerial view of Crookston, Minnesota, with the Red Lake River twisting through the town Crookston is a town/city in the U.S.
It is the governmental center of county of Polk County. The populace was 7,891 at the 2010 census. It is part of the "Grand Forks, ND MN Metropolitan Statistical Area" or "Greater Grand Forks".
Crookston is the episcopal seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Crookston.
Since Crookston is close to the larger town/city of Grand Forks, North Dakota, many citizens who live in Crookston commute to jobs in the Grand Forks area. The region in which Crookston is positioned was virtually unoccupied amid pre-European contact and remained little more than a hunting ground associated with the Pembina settlements until the 1860s.
The territory in the immediate vicinity of Crookston is not connected with any verifiable Native American or European historic affairs or circumstances until transfer in the Treaties of Old Crossing in 1863-64.
Prior to that time, the territory now encompassed in Crookston was technically a part of Rupert's Land and Assiniboia before becoming part of the United States as a result of the boundary settlement in the Treaty of 1818.
The region in which Crookston is positioned was traversed by trappers and traders including Ojibwa and Lakota Indians, Metis, and other mixed-race citizens as well as white men between 1790 and 1870.
The present day site of Crookston first saw settlement by non-Indian citizens around 1872.
Another group picked the name Crookston to honor Colonel William Crooks, a soldier and barns builder.
Soon, immigrants from Scandinavia and Germany began populating Crookston.
At one point, eight different barns lines reached Crookston and the town became a center of commerce and manufacturing.
Crookston has not seen a primary reconstructionof populace growth for quite some time and the economy has suffered from increased competition from close-by Grand Forks, North Dakota.
In what has been a socioeconomic marker of sorts in the US, a Wal-Mart opened in Crookston in 2007. Crookston sits in the fertile Red River Valley, once a part of glacial Lake Agassiz.
This made the region around Crookston prime for agricultural uses.
Grains such as wheat and other crops, including sugar beets and potatoes expanded well in the region around Crookston.
Crookston has experienced some erosion of the riverbank.
Crookston is the northern end of the Agassiz Recreational Trail, a 53-mile multi-use trail assembled on an abandoned barns undertaking which has its southern end at Ulen. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.15 square miles (13.34 km2), all of it land. There were 3,109 homeholds of which 28.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 40.3% were married couples living together, 11.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 43.9% were non-families.
There were 3,078 homeholds, of which 30.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 46.5% were married couples living together, 9.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 40.9% were non-families.
In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows 24.2% under the age of 18, 14.9% from 18 to 24, 23.8% from 25 to 44, 19.5% from 45 to 64, and 17.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 7.5% of families and 12.5% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 14.4% of those under age 18 and 14.7% of those age 65 or over.
Crookston is the locale of the University of Minnesota, Crookston (a ground of the University of Minnesota system).
On January 30, 2010, the Crookston Sports Center was dedicated.
Crookston is home to Crookston High School, home of the Pirates.
Students from neighboring suburbs of Euclid, Gentilly, and Mentor attend Crookston High.
Before the new high school was assembled in 1997, students attended Central High School positioned in downtown Crookston.
KROX 1260 AM is Crookston's only small-town airways broadcast.
Crookston is home to the Grand Theater, the earliest continuously operating movie theater in the United States. It was originally an opera home and played host to legendary entertainers including author Mark Twain, Harry Houdini, and early film actress Mary Pickford. Dan Anderson, experienced basketball player, was born in Crookston in 1943.
Senator from Minnesota from 1940 to 1949, was born in Crookston in 1905.
Davies, judge of the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota, 1955 1985, was born in Crookston in 1904.
John Noah, ice hockey player who won a silver medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics, was born in Crookston in 1927. Milton Orville Thompson, NASA astronaut and research scientist, was born in Crookston in 1926.
Wes Westrum played minor league baseball in Crookston for the Crookston Pirates.
Ed Widseth attended the Northwest School of Agriculture, now University of Minnesota, Crookston, before he went on to play football for the Minnesota Golden Gophers and won the NCAA nationwide championship in 1933, 1934, and 1935.
Eric Barnum was born in Crookston in 1979.
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