St. Hilaire, Minnesota

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official_name = St. Hilaire, Minnesota
settlement_type = City
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = Minnesota
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Pennington

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population_as_of = 2000
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population_total = 272
population_density_km2 = 136.7
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longd = 96 |longm = 12 |longs = 51 |longEW = W

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St. Hilaire is a city in section 6 of River Falls Township in Pennington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 272 at the 2000 census.

History

St. Hilare was platted in 1882 and incorporated as a village on the auspicious date of July 4, 1883. Also on that date, St. Hilaire also had rail service for the first time, as the Great Northern Railway opened a branch line from Crookston, Minnesota to St. Hilaire.

St. Hilaire received its name in one of three ways:
* A Frenchman named St. Hilaire lived in a shack by the Red Lake River, selling items like gunpowder and tobacco, and when an item was needed, residents would "go to St. Hilaire" for it, and the name stuck.
* A Frenchman named Arthur Yvernault bought land on which the townsite was then platted and named for his hometown in France.
* It was named by Hon. Frank Ives for the French Statesman and author Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, who was born in Paris, August 19, 1805, and died November 24, 1895. Frank Ives was a judge in Crookston, MN, which was the county seat of Polk County (of which Pennington was then a part) and his son, Harry Ives, was the postmaster when the St. Hilaire post office began in 1882 while still part of Polk County. Frank Ives owned land in St. Hilaire, but never lived there. This third possibility was favored by historian Warren Upham, and by extension by the Minnesota Historical Society. [Upham, Warren (2001) Minnesota Place Names, A Geographical Encyclopedia, Third Edition, p436,437; MHS Press; ISBN 0-87351-396-7]

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.2 km²), of which, 0.8 square miles (2.0 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km²) of it (8.33%) is water.

Demographics

As of the censusGR|2 of 2000, there were 272 people, 121 households, and 68 families residing in the city. The population density was 354.0 people per square mile (136.4/km²). There were 127 housing units at an average density of 165.3/sq mi (63.7/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 98.53% White, and 1.47% from two or more races.

There were 121 households out of which 32.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.4% were married couples living together, 13.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.0% were non-families. 33.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 2.88.

In the city the population was spread out with 26.5% under the age of 18, 11.8% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 7.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 106.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.0 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $26,250, and the median income for a family was $37,143. Males had a median income of $27,188 versus $19,583 for females. The per capita income for the city was $13,317. About 3.3% of families and 14.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.2% of those under the age of eighteen and 40.0% of those sixty five or over.

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