Guide to Cloquet Minnesota

Cloquet
(city)

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

2000-2010 Change

Actual

Percent

Population

11,439

11,142

10,885

11,201

12,124

+923

+8.24

Land Area (sq. mile)

3.30

35.29

35.24

0.00

Density (persons per sq. mile)

3,466.4

315.7

308.9

317.9

344.0

+26.14

+8.22

Housing Units

3,719

4,431

4,580

4,805

5,235

+430

+8.94

Households

4,149

4,401

4,636

4,959

+323

+6.97

Persons Per Household

2.66

2.44

2.38

2.44

+0.06

+2.52

Cloquet is a city in Carlton County, Minnesota located at the junction of Interstate 35 and Minnesota State Highway 33. A portion of the city lies within the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and also serves as one of three administrative centers for the Indian Reservation. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 35.97 square miles (93.16 km²), of which, 35.20 square miles (91.17 km²) of it is land and 0.77 square miles (1.99 km²) of it is water. The elevation is 1,207 ft (368 m).

As of the census of 2010, there were 12,124 people, 4,959 households, and 3,126 families residing in the city. The population density was 344.4 inhabitants per square mile (133.0/km2). There were 5,235 housing units at an average density of 148.7 per square mile (57.4/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 84.4% White, 0.4% African American, 10.8% Native American, 0.5% Asian, 0.1% from other races, and 3.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or 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.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

CLOQUET (retaining the French pronunciation of its last syllable, as in bouquet and sobriquet), incorporated as a city, was named for the Cloquet River, from which, and from other tributaries of the St. Louis River, came the logs of its lumber manufacturing. The map of Stephen H. Long's expedition, in 1823, shows that stream as Rapid River, and it is unnamed on the map by David Thompson in 1826 for the proposed routes of the international boundary; but on Joseph N. Nicollet's map, published in 1843, it has the present title, Cloquet River. It is not used outside of Minnesota as a geographic name, and here was probably derived from some fur trader.

Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society

Birds eye view, Cloquet Minnesota, 1906
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Lake info

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Knife Falls Reservoir

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