Custer Township, Lyon County, Minnesota

Custer Township is a township in Lyon County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 220 at the 2000 census.

Custer Township, Minnesota
Township
Custer Township, Minnesota
Location within the state of Minnesota
Coordinates: 44°13′58″N 95°46′49″W
CountryUnited States
StateMinnesota
CountyLyon
Area
 • Total35.9 sq mi (93.0 km2)
 • Land35.4 sq mi (91.8 km2)
 • Water0.4 sq mi (1.2 km2)
Elevation
1,490 ft (454 m)
Population
 (2000)
 • Total220
 • Density6.2/sq mi (2.4/km2)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
FIPS code27-14392[1]
GNIS feature ID0663909[2]

Custer Township was organized in 1876, and named for George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876), an American Civil War general and Indian fighter.[3]

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.9 square miles (93 km2), of which 35.5 square miles (92 km2) of it is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2) (1.23%) is water.

Demographics

At the 2000 census,[1] there were 220 people, 88 households and 68 families residing in the township. The population density was 6.2 per square mile (2.4/km2). There were 92 housing units at an average density of 2.6/sq mi (1.0/km2). The racial makeup of the township was 99.09% White, 0.45% Native American and 0.45% Asian. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.45% of the population.

There were 88 households of which 29.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 75.0% were married couples living together, 1.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.7% were non-families. 18.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 2.78.

22.3% of the population were under the age of 18, 5.0% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 30.9% from 45 to 64, and 14.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 103.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 108.5 males.

The median household income was $41,250 and the median family income was $48,750. Males had a median income of $25,781 and females $25,833. The per capita income for the township was $19,334. About 9.7% of families and 11.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.1% of those under the age of eighteen and 15.4% of those sixty five or over.

gollark: There were also fewer of them working on problems like this than we have now, and they may have missed retrospectively-obvious things.
gollark: Tradition is *a* reason to think something might be better, but a fairly weak one, since the people of the past had rather different values, and not tools like computer simulations or more recent mathematical analyses of voting systems.
gollark: Also, yes, the context is quite different so reasons from then may not apply.
gollark: It's also possible that more complex systems may have been impractical before computers came along, although that doesn't apply to, say, approval voting.
gollark: First-past-the-post is the simplest and most obvious thing you're likely to imagine if you want people to "vote for things", and it's entirely possible people didn't look too hard.

References
  1. "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  2. "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  3. Upham, Warren (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 312.
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