Hermantown, Minnesota
| Hermantown, Minnesota | |
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| City | |
| Motto: The City of Quality Living | |
 Location of the city of Hermantown within Saint Louis County, Minnesota |
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| Coordinates: 46°48′5″N 92°13′21″W / 46.80139°N 92.22250°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Minnesota |
| County | Saint Louis |
| Incorporated | December 31, 1975 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Wayne Boucher |
| Area | |
| • Total | 34.37 sq mi (89.02 km2) |
| • Land | 34.35 sq mi (88.97 km2) |
| • Water | 0.02 sq mi (0.05 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,362 ft (415 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 9,414 |
| • Estimate (2013) | 9,605 |
| • Density | 274.1/sq mi (105.8/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP codes | 55811, 55810 |
| Area code(s) | 218 |
| FIPS code | 27-28682 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0660490 |
| Website | www.hermantownmn.com |
Hermantown is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 9,414 at the 2010 census. A suburb of Duluth, Minnesota, it has been the only city in the county to report population growth as much of the area's residential and commercial expansion occurs there. Hermantown is located near the tip of Lake Superior.
The eastern part of Hermantown has an appearance typical of a lower-density bedroom community, with large, leafy lots and occasional subdivisions. The car-oriented "Miller Hill area", or Miller Trunk Corridor of Duluth, has sprawled well past the city boundary line into this part of Hermantown. The western part of Hermantown is dominated by a more rural landscape, reminiscent of the past agricultural focus of the city. Hermantown's motto is "The City of Quality Living ".
Hermantown's current mayor is Wayne Boucher, who won a 2008 election against opponent Susie Stockinger. Mayor Boucher ran unopposed for a second mayoral term in 2012 and received 4,111 votes. There were 79 write-ins for mayor during the 2012 election.
The first inhabitants of the area were Native Americans. They lived in the area often referred to in early Duluth references as "the land up over the hill."
In 1867, August Kohlts and his friend, Lambert "Pat" Acker, filed for homesteads in Section 18, Township 50 North, Range 15 West. Both families had emigrated from Prussia. Acker arrived about age five with his parents and siblings around 1835 and settled in Erie County, New York. He married Emelie Louisa Wilke on January 12, 1850. Kohlts and his wife, Emilie, immigrated in the spring of 1860. The Kohlts and Ackers resided in the town of Tonawanda on the Niagara River for some years with many other Germans who settled in the area. Citizenship was granted to Kohlts on March 20, 1868. Soon afterward, the Kohlts and Acker families set out from Buffalo, New York, heading west via the Great Lakes for the Hancock, Michigan area of the Keewenaw Peninsula and its copper mines.
Perhaps lured by the availability of free land under the Homestead Act, the Kohlts family left for Minnesota. The federal census of June 1, 1870 records their presence in the Second Ward of the newly formed city of Duluth, Minnesota, while the Acker family arrived in Duluth in 1871. By January 1872 August Kohlts had established an 82-acre site in the wilderness outside Duluth. He and Acker were the first settlers in the area now known as Hermantown.
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