Redwood Falls, Minnesota
Redwood Falls | ||
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FIPS code 27-53656[5] | | |
| GNIS feature ID | 2396342[2] | |
| Website | ci.redwood-falls.mn.us | |
Redwood Falls is a city in Redwood County, located along the Redwood River near its confluence with the Minnesota River, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 5,102 at the 2020 census.[3] It is the county seat.[6]
History
As the immigrant and the Euro-American population of the North American east coast region grew, population pressures affected people far inland. People moved west to find new homes as more and more land was used by farmers. The Minnesota area is the ancestral homeland of the several Dakota peoples, who consisted of the loosely confederated Oceti sakowin (Seven Council Fires). By 1700,
19th century
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By the mid-19th century, the traditional Dakota yearly cycle of farming, hunting, fishing, and gathering
To encourage the Dakota to bring in more furs, traders offered merchandise on credit. It is not clear that the Dakota well understood the concept of credit, but they grew to depend on trade goods for metal tools and other items.
Pressure from traders who wanted to be paid and concern from government officials about the ability of the Dakota to earn the money they needed, led to the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux. The federal government wanted to extinguish Native American land title to tracts of land and offered the people annuities of money and goods in exchange. The Dakota agreed to live on a twenty-mile-wide reservation centered on a 75-mile stretch of the upper Minnesota River. Annuity payments for the Dakota were late in the summer of 1862, an example of a pattern of poor delivery of payments and supplies to them.
The site of the future town of Redwood Falls was within the Dakota reservation area along the lower Minnesota River. The war of 1862 was a small segment in Sioux history of conflict with European Americans. Corruption and malfeasance by the Bureau of Indian Affairs resulted in delays of payments of annuities and supplies of promised supplies, causing great hardships for the Dakota. In addition, they struggled with the effects of the relocation and inability to adjust to settled subsistence farming.
An August 4, 1862 confrontation between soldiers and Dakota men led the Indian Agency near
As a result of the war, the U.S. government hanged 38 participants and attempted to expel the Dakota people from Minnesota altogether. But it ended up maintaining the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in Redwood County. Over time, the Dakota lost control of much of the land first set aside in 1851.
In 1864, Sam McPhail, a colonel who had commanded US troops in the war and was a land speculator, claimed the land where Redwood Falls was developed. He hired men to use lumber from the Dakota reservation to build a fortified house and surrounded it with a sod stockade eight feet tall. McPhail published the Redwood Falls Patriot from 1866 to 1869. He was a probate judge and first Redwood County attorney. In 1872, he donated land for the county courthouse as Redwood Falls was designated as the county seat.
Among settlers who joined McPhail in 1864 was John St. George Honner. Honner claimed land north of Redwood Falls. The house he built in 1869 still stands in North Redwood and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Honner was appointed as the first postmaster and also served as a county official. Active in electoral politics, he served as a representative and later as a senator in the state legislature between 1866 and 1874. Honner operated a granite quarry near North Redwood and supplied the stone for the county courthouse.
20th century to present
After World War II, Redwood Falls was home to the Minnesota Inventors Congress. Started in 1958 to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship and attract industry to town, MIC held a juried exhibition each year. It also sponsored a contest for student inventors and a parade for the city. After a 58-year run, the MIC was ended in 2014 due to a lack of funding.[7]
The city of Redwood Falls took over Alexander Ramsey Park in 1958 from the state of Minnesota. Ramsey had been one of the least used and least developed state parks. It has been improved as the largest municipal park in Minnesota.
The cities of North Redwood and Redwood Falls merged in 1996;[8] they are now known as the single entity, Redwood Falls. In 2010 Native Americans composed more than 6% of the population in the city.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.38 square miles (13.93 km2); 5.25 square miles (13.60 km2) is land and 0.13 square miles (0.34 km2) is water.[9] The Redwood River flows through the city near its mouth at the Minnesota River.[10]
Redwood Falls is located along U.S. Highway 71. Other main highways in the city include Minnesota State Highways 19 and 67.[10]
Climate
Redwood Falls has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa), with hot summers and freezing winters.
| Climate data for Redwood Falls, Minnesota (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1909–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 59 (15) |
66 (19) |
86 (30) |
94 (34) |
99 (37) |
102 (39) |
104 (40) |
95 (35) |
97 (36) |
92 (33) |
82 (28) |
56 (13) |
104 (40) |
| Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 22.6 (−5.2) |
28.2 (−2.1) |
40.1 (4.5) |
56.0 (13.3) |
69.1 (20.6) |
78.7 (25.9) |
83.2 (28.4) |
81.1 (27.3) |
74.1 (23.4) |
59.5 (15.3) |
42.1 (5.6) |
27.8 (−2.3) |
55.2 (12.9) |
| Daily mean °F (°C) | 13.5 (−10.3) |
18.3 (−7.6) |
30.5 (−0.8) |
44.8 (7.1) |
57.7 (14.3) |
68.0 (20.0) |
71.9 (22.2) |
70.0 (21.1) |
62.0 (16.7) |
47.9 (8.8) |
32.8 (0.4) |
19.7 (−6.8) |
44.8 (7.1) |
| Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 4.3 (−15.4) |
8.4 (−13.1) |
20.9 (−6.2) |
33.6 (0.9) |
46.3 (7.9) |
57.4 (14.1) |
60.5 (15.8) |
58.9 (14.9) |
50.0 (10.0) |
36.4 (2.4) |
23.6 (−4.7) |
11.6 (−11.3) |
34.3 (1.3) |
| Record low °F (°C) | −36 (−38) |
−26 (−32) |
−18 (−28) |
−3 (−19) |
26 (−3) |
23 (−5) |
46 (8) |
40 (4) |
30 (−1) |
9 (−13) |
−13 (−25) |
−26 (−32) |
−36 (−38) |
| Average precipitation inches (mm) | 0.67 (17) |
0.92 (23) |
1.63 (41) |
2.86 (73) |
4.10 (104) |
4.99 (127) |
3.71 (94) |
4.23 (107) |
3.14 (80) |
2.38 (60) |
1.31 (33) |
0.95 (24) |
30.89 (785) |
| Average snowfall inches (cm) | 7.1 (18) |
9.3 (24) |
8.9 (23) |
3.9 (9.9) |
0.1 (0.25) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.5 (1.3) |
4.4 (11) |
9.4 (24) |
43.6 (111) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) | 5.3 | 4.8 | 5.8 | 8.2 | 10.5 | 10.1 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 4.5 | 5.4 | 84.4 |
| Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) | 5.0 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 4.4 | 19.4 |
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| Climate data for Redwood Falls Municipal Airport, Minnesota (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1906–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 68 (20) |
67 (19) |
86 (30) |
96 (36) |
107 (42) |
108 (42) |
110 (43) |
105 (41) |
105 (41) |
93 (34) |
82 (28) |
70 (21) |
110 (43) |
| Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 23.4 (−4.8) |
27.8 (−2.3) |
40.5 (4.7) |
56.6 (13.7) |
69.9 (21.1) |
79.8 (26.6) |
83.6 (28.7) |
81.0 (27.2) |
74.3 (23.5) |
59.2 (15.1) |
42.2 (5.7) |
28.2 (−2.1) |
55.5 (13.1) |
| Daily mean °F (°C) | 14.6 (−9.7) |
18.7 (−7.4) |
31.5 (−0.3) |
45.7 (7.6) |
58.7 (14.8) |
68.9 (20.5) |
72.6 (22.6) |
70.0 (21.1) |
62.3 (16.8) |
48.3 (9.1) |
33.1 (0.6) |
20.0 (−6.7) |
45.4 (7.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 5.7 (−14.6) |
9.6 (−12.4) |
22.5 (−5.3) |
34.9 (1.6) |
47.5 (8.6) |
58.1 (14.5) |
61.6 (16.4) |
59.0 (15.0) |
50.2 (10.1) |
37.3 (2.9) |
23.9 (−4.5) |
11.7 (−11.3) |
35.2 (1.8) |
| Record low °F (°C) | −36 (−38) |
−33 (−36) |
−25 (−32) |
3 (−16) |
21 (−6) |
28 (−2) |
40 (4) |
36 (2) |
25 (−4) |
3 (−16) |
−15 (−26) |
−31 (−35) |
−36 (−38) |
| Average precipitation inches (mm) | 0.58 (15) |
0.67 (17) |
1.50 (38) |
2.64 (67) |
3.65 (93) |
4.66 (118) |
3.37 (86) |
4.00 (102) |
2.85 (72) |
2.21 (56) |
1.19 (30) |
0.69 (18) |
28.01 (711) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) | 5.0 | 5.1 | 7.3 | 9.6 | 11.4 | 12.2 | 8.9 | 8.9 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 95.9 |
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Demographics
| Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 981 | — | |
| 1890 | 1,238 | 26.2% | |
| 1900 | 1,661 | 34.2% | |
| 1910 | 1,666 | 0.3% | |
| 1920 | 2,421 | 45.3% | |
| 1930 | 2,552 | 5.4% | |
| 1940 | 3,270 | 28.1% | |
| 1950 | 3,813 | 16.6% | |
| 1960 | 4,285 | 12.4% | |
| 1970 | 4,774 | 11.4% | |
| 1980 | 5,210 | 9.1% | |
| 1990 | 4,859 | −6.7% | |
| 2000 | 5,459 | 12.3% | |
| 2010 | 5,254 | −3.8% | |
| 2020 | 5,102 | −2.9% | |
| 2022 (est.) | 5,084 | [4] | −0.4% |
| U.S. Decennial Census[14] 2020 Census[3] | |||
2010 census
As of the
There were 2,265 households, of which 28.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.8% were married couples living together, 12.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 40.8% were non-families. 37.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.23 and the average family size was 2.89.
The median age in the city was 42.1 years. 24.3% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 21.4% were from 25 to 44; 26.4% were from 45 to 64; and 20.7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.7% male and 52.3% female.
2000 census
As of the
There were 2,266 households, out of which 30.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.2% were married couples living together, 9.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.7% were non-families. 34.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.94.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 25.0% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 23.1% from 45 to 64, and 19.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $38,812, and the median income for a family was $52,589. Males had a median income of $31,776 versus $24,085 for females. The
Politics
| Year | Republican | Democratic | Third parties
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| 2020 | 59.9% 1,508 | 37.9% 955 | 2.2% 56 |
| 2016 | 59.8% 1,411 | 31.5% 743 | 8.7% 206 |
| 2012 | 52.2% 1,278 | 45.0% 1,101 | 2.8% 69 |
| 2008 | 52.3% 1,312 | 45.0% 1,128 | 2.7% 67 |
| 2004 | 56.2% 1,483 | 42.1% 1,110 | 1.7% 45 |
| 2000 | 54.4% 1,383 | 38.6% 981 | 7.0% 179 |
| 1996 | 46.1% 1,105 | 42.1% 1,009 | 11.8% 285 |
| 1992 | 40.1% 1,105 | 31.2% 860 | 28.7% 793 |
| 1988 | 64.3% 1,542 | 35.7% 856 | 0.0% 0 |
| 1984 | 68.6% 1,781 | 31.4% 817 | 0.0% 0 |
| 1980 | 61.7% 1,638 | 29.7% 789 | 8.6% 228 |
| 1976 | 58.9% 1,552 | 38.7% 1,019 | 2.4% 64 |
| 1972 | 70.4% 1,763 | 27.2% 681 | 2.4% 60 |
| 1968 | 62.3% 1,393 | 35.4% 791 | 2.3% 52 |
| 1964 | 56.2% 1,214 | 43.7% 944 | 0.1% 1 |
| 1960 | 71.9% 1,572 | 28.0% 612 | 0.1% 2 |
Media
Television
| Channel | Callsign | Affiliation | Branding | Subchannels | Owner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Virtual) | Channel | Programming | ||||
| 4.1 | K33LB-D (WCCO Translator) |
CBS | WCCO 4 | 4.2 | Start TV | Redwood Falls TV Improvement Corporation |
| 5.1 | K35NY-D (KSTP Translator) |
ABC | 5 Eyewitness News | 5.7 | Heroes & Icons | Redwood Falls TV Improvement Corporation |
| 5.2 | K28LL-D (KSTC Translator) |
Ind.
|
45 TV | 5.3 5.4 5.6 |
Redwood Falls TV Improvement Corporation | |
| 9.2 | K19CV-D (WFTC Translator) |
MyNet | FOX 9 Plus | 9.3 9.1 |
Movies! FOX (KMSP) |
Redwood Falls TV Improvement Corporation |
| 10.1 | KWCM
|
PBS | Pioneer Public TV | 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 |
World
PBS Kids |
West Central Minnesota Educational TV Corporation |
| 11.4 | K22KU-D (KARE Translator) |
NBC | KARE 11 | 11.5 11.6 11.7 |
Quest
|
Redwood Falls TV Improvement Corporation |
| 12.1 | KEYC-TV | CBS | KEYC | 12.2 | Fox | Gray Television
|
| 15.1 | K15LS-D | CNN | Redwood Falls TV Improvement Corporation | |||
| 16.1 | K16MV-D | Grit | 16.2 16.3 16.4 |
Action
|
Redwood Falls TV Improvement Corporation | |
| 25.1 | K25II-D | Bally Sports North
|
Redwood Falls TV Improvement Corporation | |||
| 29.1 | K29MQ-D | TBS
|
Redwood Falls TV Improvement Corporation | |||
| 36.1 | K36KW-D | RFD | Redwood Falls TV Improvement Corporation | |||
| 41.1 | K17BV-D (KPXM Translator) |
ION
|
ION | 41.2 41.3 41.4 41.5 41.6 |
HSN
|
Redwood Falls TV Improvement Corporation |
| 43.1 | KRWF (KSTP Satellite) |
ABC | 5 Eyewitness News | 43.2 43.3 |
45TV MeTV |
Hubbard Broadcasting |
See also
References
- ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Redwood Falls, Minnesota
- ^ a b c "Explore Census Data". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
- ^ a b "City and Town Population Totals: 2020-2022". United States Census Bureau. June 25, 2023. Retrieved June 25, 2023.
- ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ^ "Inventors Congress ends 58-year run | West Central Tribune". www.wctrib.com. Archived from the original on August 10, 2016. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
- ^ U.S. Census Bureaus, Population Division. 1990s Boundary Changes: Geographic Change Notes: Minnesota. 1998. Retrieved March 15, 2010.
- ^ "US Gazetteer files 2010". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
- ^ ISBN 0-89933-222-6.
- ^ a b "NowData – NOAA Online Weather Data". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
- ^ "Station: Redwood Falls, MN". U.S. Climate Normals 2020: U.S. Monthly Climate Normals (1991-2020). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
- ^ "Station: Redwood Falls Muni AP, MN". U.S. Climate Normals 2020: U.S. Monthly Climate Normals (1991-2020). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
- ^ United States Census Bureau. "Census of Population and Housing". Retrieved September 10, 2013.
- ^ "Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State - Election Results". Archived from the original on February 22, 2021. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
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