Hallock, Minnesota
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Hallock is a city in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,196 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Kittson County6.
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[edit] Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.4 km² (2.1 mi²), all land.
[edit] Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there were 1,196 people, 485 households, and 305 families residing in the city. The population density was 220.9/km² (573.2/mi²). There were 586 housing units at an average density of 108.3/km² (280.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.91% White, 0.08% African American, 0.17% Native American, 0.17% Asian, 0.59% from other races, and 1.09% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.42% of the population.
There were 485 households out of which 30.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.0% were married couples living together, 6.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.1% were non-families. 35.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 21.2% 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 3.00.
In the city the population was spread out with 24.8% under the age of 18, 3.8% from 18 to 24, 23.3% from 25 to 44, 21.1% from 45 to 64, and 26.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females there were 81.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.3 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $37,063, and the median income for a family was $46,042. Males had a median income of $31,848 versus $21,136 for females. The per capita income for the city was $18,156. About 3.3% of families and 4.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.0% of those under age 18 and 7.8% of those age 65 or over.
[edit] Noted Residents
Born in Hallock, Donald Pederson was a noted professor of electrical engineering and the father of "SPICE", a canonical circuit simulation program used for integrated circuit application.
Hallock, Minnesota was incorporated in 1887, and named after Charles Hallock, M.A. b. 03/13/1834, New York. d. 1917. He was a student at Yale, 1850-51, at Amherst in the class of 1854, 1851-52, and received his A.B. degree in 1871, A.M., 1879. He was assistant editor of the New Haven Register, 1854-56; proprietor and associate editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, of which his father was editor, 1856-62; for several years a commission merchant, banker and editor in St. John and Halifax, N.B.: incorporator and director of the Flushing and Queens county bank in 1873, and founder and proprietor of Forest and Stream, 1873-80. He experimented in sun-flower culture, using the seed for oil; in sheep raising on Indian reservations; in establishing a reservation for sportsmen in Minnesota; in the development of Alaska and Florida, and of special industries in North Carolina; and in various other sanitary and economic schemes. He originated the code of uniform game laws and incorporated with Fayette S. Giles and others the first great American game preserve at Blooming Grove, Pike county, Pa. He is the author of: Recluse of the Oconee (1854); Life of Stonewall Jackson (1863): The Fishing Tourist (1873); Camp Life in Florida (1875); The Sportsman's Gazetteer (1877); Vacation Rambles in Michigan (1877); American Club List and Glossary (1878): Our New Alaska (1886); The Salmon Fisher (1890) and contributions to periodicals.
