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City
Location of St. Hilaire, Minnesota
Country	United States
State	Minnesota
County	Pennington
Area
• Total	0.83 sq mi (2.15 km2)
• Land	0.77 sq mi (2.01 km2)
• Water	0.06 sq mi (0.15 km2)
Elevation	1,089 ft (332 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	279
• Estimate  (2019)	264
• Density	341.09/sq mi (131.65/km2)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
FIPS code	27-57022
GNIS feature ID	0650607

St. Hilaire is a city in section 6 of River Falls Township in Pennington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 279 at the 2010 census.

History

St. Hilaire was platted in 1882 and incorporated as a village on the auspicious date of July 4, 1883. Also on that date, St. Hilaire had rail service for the first time, as the Great Northern Railway opened a branch line from Crookston, Minnesota through Shirley, seven miles north of Crookston, Dorothy and Ives Station, to St. Hilaire.

St. Hilaire received its name in one of three ways:

• A Frenchman named St. Hilaire lived in a shack by the Red Lake River, selling items like gunpowder and tobacco, and when an item was needed, residents would "go to St. Hilaire" for it, and the name stuck.
• A Frenchman named Arthur Yvernault bought land on which the townsite was then platted and named for his hometown in France.
• It was named by Hon. Frank Ives for the French Statesman and author Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, who was born in Paris, August 19, 1805, and died November 24, 1895. Frank Ives was a judge in Crookston, MN, which was the county seat of Polk County (of which Pennington was then a part) and his son, Harry Ives, was the postmaster when the St. Hilaire post office began in 1882 while still part of Polk County. Frank Ives owned land in St. Hilaire, but never lived there. This third possibility was favored by historian Warren Upham, and by extension by the Minnesota Historical Society.

Harry Ives was also the publisher of the St. Hilaire Spectator, the first newspaper to serve this community. The Spectator was published from 1883 to 1942, when it closed and sold its subscription list to the Thief River Falls Times.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.83 square miles (2.15 km²), of which 0.77 square miles (1.99 km²) is land and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km²) is water.

Demographics

2010 census

As of the census of 2010, there were 279 people, 123 households, and 71 families living in the city. The population density was 362.3 inhabitants per square mile (139.9/km²). There were 131 housing units at an average density of 170.1 per square mile (65.7/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.8% White, 1.1% Native American, 0.7% from other races, and 0.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.4% of the population.

There were 123 households, of which 30.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.1% were married couples living together, 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present, 8.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 42.3% were non-families. 32.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 2.87.

The median age in the city was 37.1 years. 25.1% of residents were under the age of 18; 9.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22.9% were from 25 to 44; 30.9% were from 45 to 64; and 11.5% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 53.0% male and 47.0% female.

See also

In Spanish: St. Hilaire (Minnesota) para niños