Guide to Wahkon Minnesota

Wahkon (city)

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

2000-2010 Change

Actual

Percent

Population

208

271

197

314

206

-108

-34.39

Land Area (sq. mile)

0.80

1.10

0.98

0.00

Density (persons per sq. mile)

260.0

246.4

201.0

320.7

210.2

-110.50

-34.46

Housing Units

151

183

258

256

206

-50

-19.53

Households

102

150

100

-50

-33.33

Persons Per Household

2.66

2.05

2.09

2.06

-0.03

-1.44

Wahkon is a city in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. Minnesota Highway 27 serves as a main route in the community. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.96 square miles (2.49 km2), all of it land. The elevation is 1,273 ft (388 m).

As of the census of 2010, there were 206 people, 100 households, and 52 families residing in the city. The population density was 214.6 inhabitants per square mile (82.9/km2). There were 206 housing units at an average density of 214.6 per square mile (82.9/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 95.1% White, 2.4% Native American, 0.5% Asian, and 1.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.0% of the population.

There were 100 households of which 20.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.0% were married couples living together, 10.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 6.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 48.0% were non-families. 36.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 13% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.06 and the average family size was 2.58.

The median age in the city was 49.7 years. 15.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 17.5% were from 25 to 44; 35.9% were from 45 to 64; and 23.8% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 51.9% male and 48.1% female.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

WAHKON, a city in section 17 of Isle Harbor Township, was incorporated as a village on November 6, 1912; it was established in 1885 as Potts Town, changed to Lawrence in 1891 when the post office was established, and changed again in 1910 to Wahkon. This name is the Dakota name of Mille Lacs, spelled wakan in the Dakota dictionary by Rev. Stephen R. Riggs, defined as "spiritual, sacred, consecrated, wonderful, incomprehensible." The Dakota applied this name especially to a very remarkable but small island far out in the lake, about seven miles northwest from Wahkon, consisting of rock, granitic boulders piled by the ice of the lake to a height of nearly 20 feet, a noted resort of gulls and pelicans, called on maps Spirit Island or Pelican Island. Only 1 or 2 feet below the lake level, and visible under the water for 100 feet or more to the north and east, is a ledge of the bedrock described by David I. Bushnell in Brower's memoir of Mille Lac (p. 121, with a picture, on p. 118, of the heaped rock masses forming the island). Wonderful as the island is, it was the origin of the Dakota name of the lake, of this village, and, by a punning perversion noted on a later page, the name of the Rum River.

Hennepin Island, also named Prisoner's Island, alluding to the captivity of Hennepin, who probably, however, never came to this island, lying nearly five miles north of Wahkon village, is a small and low reef of boulders, called Deception Crest by Brower. The only other island far from the shore is the Wakan or Spirit Island, before noted as the source of the old Dakota name for Mille Lacs, Mde Wakan, and the differently spelled village name, Wahkon. By proclamation of the president of the United States in 1915, Spirit Island is a bird refuge or reservation, for protection of water-loving birds that have resting places and nests there.

Lake Name

Size
(acres)

Lake info

Lake Map

Rec Map

Topo Map

Mille Lacs

128,223

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