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Brainerd
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city in Minnesota, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Minnesota
- County
- Crow Wing
- Incorporated
- March 6, 1873
- Mayor
- Dave Badeaux
- Total
- 12.82 sq mi (33.21 km )
- Land
- 12.13 sq mi (31.42 km )
- Water
- 0.69 sq mi (1.79 km ) 5.78%
- Elevation
- 1,217 ft (371 m)
- Estimate 2022
- 14,580
- Density
- 1,187/sq mi (458.2/km )
- Demonym
- Brainerdier
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 27-07300
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Brainerd
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Crow Wing County
- Population
- 14395
- Area
- 32.712627
- Elevation
- 371
- Body of water
- Mississippi River
- Capital of
- Crow Wing County
- Official website
- www.ci.brainerd.mn.us
- Image
- Northern Pacific Railroad Shops Historic District.jpg
- Households
- 6012
- Dialing code
- 218
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- twinned administrative body
- Leksand Municipality
- inception
- 1870-00-00
- Commons category
- Brainerd, Minnesota
- postal code
- 56401
- P8168
- Ileana Cotrubaș
- water as percent of area
- 5.7472
- per capita income
- 25319
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Brainerd (/ˈbreɪnərd/ BRAY-nərd) is a city in and the county seat of Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 14,395 at the 2020 census. Brainerd straddles the Mississippi River several miles upstream from its confluence with the Crow Wing River, having been founded as a site for a railroad crossing above the confluence.
The Brainerd micropolitan area includes Cass and Crow Wing counties and had a population of 96,189 at the 2020 census. The city is well known for being the partial setting of the 1996 film Fargo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brainerd” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.