Guide to Buckman Minnesota

Buckman (city)

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

2000-2010 Change

Actual

Percent

Population

158

171

201

208

270

+62

+29.81

Land Area (sq. mile)

1.00

1.03

0.00

Density (persons per sq. mile)

158.00

166.02

195.15

202.49

262.14

+59.91

+29.59

Housing Units

105

+30

+40.00

Households

+22

+30.14

Persons Per Household

2.71

2.68

2.85

2.84

-0.01

-0.31

Buckman is a city in Morrison County, Minnesota. Minnesota State Highway 25 and County Highway 34 are two of the main routes in the community. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.02 square miles (2.64 km2), all of it land. The elevation is 1,224 ft (373 m).

As of the census of 2010, there were 270 people, 95 households, and 72 families residing in the city. The population density was 264.7 inhabitants per square mile (102.2/km2). There were 105 housing units at an average density of 102.9 per square mile (39.7/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 98.9% White and 1.1% African American. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.6% of the population.

There were 95 households of which 43.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.9% were married couples living together, 8.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 8.4% had a male householder with no wife present, and 24.2% were non-families. 18.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.84 and the average family size was 3.25.

The median age in the city was 30.3 years. 31.9% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 36.7% were from 25 to 44; 14.4% were from 45 to 64; and 9.3% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 50.7% male and 49.3% female.

BUCKMAN Township, organized in 1874, was named in honor of Clarence B. Buckman, one of its first settlers. He was born in Bucks County, Pa., April 1, 1850; came to Minnesota in 1872, settling here as a farmer and lumberman; removed to Little Falls in 1880; was a representative in the legislature, 1881, and a state senator in 1889 and 1899-1901; was a member of Congress in 1903-7; and died in a sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich., March 1, 1917. The city in sections 4, 5, 8, and 9 was incorporated as a village on May 4, 1903, and separated from the township on March 22, 1920; the post office began in section 20 on the farm of Edward S. Arnold, postmaster, moved several times, discontinued in 1910, but reestablished in 1921.

German Catholic Church (now St. Michael), Buckman Minnesota, 1910
Courtesy St. John's Abbey - click image to enlarge

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