Cloquet, Minnesota

Coordinates: 46°43′18″N 92°27′34″W / 46.72167°N 92.45944°W / 46.72167; -92.45944
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Cloquet
FIPS code
27-12160
GNIS feature ID0641345[3]
Websitecloquetmn.gov

Cloquet (/kloʊˈkeɪ/ ⓘ kloh-KAY)[6] is a city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States, at the junction of Interstate 35 and Minnesota State Highway 33. Part of the city lies within the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and serves as one of the reservation's three administrative centers. The population was 12,568 at the 2020 census.[4]

History

Former Con-Wed plant (now a USG Corporation facility) in Cloquet, 1973

Cloquet began as a group of small settlements around three sawmills: Shaw Town, Nelson Town, and Johnson Town. These became known as Knife Falls after a local waterfall over sharp

Joseph N. Nicollet, which named the Cloquet River, a tributary of the Saint Louis River, and the Cloquet Rapids to the north. Cloquet is a French surname, but historians have found no source for it. Some speculate that the river was named for the 19th-century French scientists Hippolyte and Jules Cloquet, and the settlement named for the river.[7]

The area was the site of the 1918 Cloquet fire, which destroyed much of the town and killed 453 people.

Before and after World War II Cloquet was home of the nation's strongest consumers' cooperatives. The Cloquet Cooperative Society (founded in 1910) operated two cooperative stores, which handled food, hardware, shoes, dry goods, and furniture. Other cooperative services included a building supply store, a coal yard, a mortuary, an auto repair shop and a gas service station.

In 1939, the co-op did 35% of the business in the town, and 18% in Carlton County. By the mid-1950s, the consumer society had a membership of 4,262 out of a population of 8,500. This was a national record, given that the total business of all American co-ops combined represented only 0.5% of the economy. The Finnish cooperative groups of the area also had an influence on the American cooperative movement in general.

In the 1970s the area of the city was increased to over ten times what it had been in 1970. Despite this, the population of the city still declined from 1970 to 1980, even as the number of separate residences increased.[8]

Architecture

Cloquet is home to the

R.W. Lindholm Service Station, the only filling station designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and a structure now on the National Register of Historic Places
.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 36.01 square miles (93.3 km2), of which 35.22 square miles (91.2 km2) is land and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2) is water.[9]

Cloquet is along the Saint Louis River, 20 miles southwest of Duluth.

Climate

Cloquet has a

Köppen Climate Classification
Dfb) typical of its location in northern Minnesota, with warm summers and long, cold winters.

Climate data for Cloquet, Minnesota (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1900–present)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °F (°C) 52
(11) 		57
(14) 		79
(26) 		88
(31) 		94
(34) 		98
(37) 		105
(41) 		98
(37) 		96
(36) 		86
(30) 		72
(22) 		57
(14) 		105
(41)
Mean daily maximum °F (°C) 18.2
(−7.7) 		24.0
(−4.4) 		36.8
(2.7) 		50.4
(10.2) 		64.3
(17.9) 		73.5
(23.1) 		78.5
(25.8) 		76.2
(24.6) 		67.2
(19.6) 		51.7
(10.9) 		35.0
(1.7) 		22.7
(−5.2) 		49.9
(9.9)
Daily mean °F (°C) 9.9
(−12.3) 		14.3
(−9.8) 		26.4
(−3.1) 		39.1
(3.9) 		51.4
(10.8) 		60.7
(15.9) 		66.3
(19.1) 		64.6
(18.1) 		56.4
(13.6) 		43.0
(6.1) 		28.4
(−2.0) 		15.8
(−9.0) 		39.7
(4.3)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C) 1.7
(−16.8) 		4.6
(−15.2) 		16.1
(−8.8) 		27.9
(−2.3) 		38.4
(3.6) 		47.8
(8.8) 		54.0
(12.2) 		53.0
(11.7) 		45.6
(7.6) 		34.3
(1.3) 		21.9
(−5.6) 		9.0
(−12.8) 		29.5
(−1.4)
Record low °F (°C) −45
(−43) 		−41
(−41) 		−35
(−37) 		−7
(−22) 		8
(−13) 		24
(−4) 		30
(−1) 		26
(−3) 		19
(−7) 		0
(−18) 		−24
(−31) 		−37
(−38) 		−45
(−43)
Average precipitation inches (mm) 1.00
(25) 		0.98
(25) 		1.44
(37) 		2.41
(61) 		3.48
(88) 		4.75
(121) 		4.33
(110) 		4.18
(106) 		3.56
(90) 		3.26
(83) 		1.82
(46) 		1.46
(37) 		32.67
(830)
Average snowfall inches (cm) 13.5
(34) 		13.5
(34) 		10.3
(26) 		6.4
(16) 		0.3
(0.76) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		1.8
(4.6) 		9.6
(24) 		15.9
(40) 		71.3
(181)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) 9.8 8.4 8.6 9.9 11.9 13.3 12.2 10.7 11.1 12.1 9.6 11.1 128.7
Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) 12.3 9.2 5.6 2.6 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.1 6.9 12.7 50.6
Source:
NOAA[10][11]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
188093—
18902,5302,620.4%
19003,07221.4%
19107,031128.9%
19205,127−27.1%
19306,78232.3%
19407,3047.7%
19507,6855.2%
19609,01317.3%
19708,699−3.5%
198011,14228.1%
199010,885−2.3%
200011,2012.9%
201012,1248.2%
202012,5683.7%
2022 (est.)12,603[5]0.3%
U.S. Decennial Census[12]
2020 Census[4]

2020 census

As of the

Latino
of any race.

2010 census

As of the

Latino
of any race were 1.3% of the population.

There were 4,959 households, of which 32.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.1% were married couples living together, 14.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 37.0% were non-families. 30.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 2.96.

The median age in the city was 37 years. 25.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25.5% were from 25 to 44; 25% were from 45 to 64; and 15.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.7% male and 51.3% female.

A large Dalecarlian horse

Infrastructure

Major highways

Education

Most of Cloquet is zoned to

Carlton Public School District.[14]

There is a K-12 tribal school, Fond du Lac Ojibwe School, affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE).

Notable people

References

  1. ^ "Wood City: Cloquet hopes to keep its identity after country's last matchstick factory closes".
  2. ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
  3. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cloquet, Minnesota
  4. ^ a b c "Explore Census Data". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
  5. ^ a b "City and Town Population Totals: 2020-2022". United States Census Bureau. October 18, 2023. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
  6. ^ "Minnesota Pronunciation Guide". Associated Press. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  7. ^
  8. ^ Guide of Cloquet, Minnesota
  9. ^ "2020 Gazetteer Files". census.gov. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 16, 2022.
  10. ^ "NowData – NOAA Online Weather Data". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved June 23, 2021.
  11. ^ "Station: Cloquet, MN". U.S. Climate Normals 2020: U.S. Monthly Climate Normals (1991-2020). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved June 23, 2021.
  12. ^ United States Census Bureau. "Census of Population and Housing". Retrieved September 11, 2013.
  13. ^ "2020 Decennial Census: Cloquet city, Minnesota". data.census.gov. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved July 16, 2022.
  14. ^ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Carlton County, MN" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 5, 2021. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  15. ^ EHN, Reference Desk. "Library Research Guides: Lawrence R. Yetka, Associate Justice 1973-1993: Biography". mncourts.libguides.com. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  • Florence C. Parker, The First 125 Years. A History of Distributive and Service Cooperation in the United States, 1829-1954 (Superior WI: CLUSA, 1956).

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