Nerstrand, Minnesota
| Nerstrand, Minnesota | |
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Nerstrand's historic City Hall building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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 Location of Nerstrand, Minnesota |
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| Coordinates: 44°20′28″N 93°3′59″W / 44.34111°N 93.06639°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Minnesota |
| County | Rice |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.42 sq mi (3.68 km2) |
| • Land | 1.42 sq mi (3.68 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,191 ft (363 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 295 |
| • Estimate (2016) | 299 |
| • Density | 210/sq mi (80/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 55053 |
| Area code(s) | 507 |
| FIPS code | 27-45196 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0648482 |
Nerstrand is a city in Rice County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 295 at the 2010 census.
Minnesota State Highway 246 serves as a main route in the community. Minnesota State Highways 56 and 60 are nearby.
In 1856, Norwegian immigrant Osmund Osmundson moved to Wheeling Township in Rice County. He homesteaded the present site of Nerstrand, building a house and farm, and began to envision a town on the site. In 1877, he built a store on what became the right-of-way for railroad tracks on what is now Main Street. In 1885, the Minnesota and North Western Railroad (later the Chicago Great Western Railway) was constructed, extending from Lyle, Minnesota to St. Paul, and Osmundson platted the town on the line, naming it after his hometown of Nedstrand in Tysvær, Norway.
The town was the center of a significant Norwegian immigrant community, which included people in the surrounding township and county. Some, like Tosten Bonde, who lived just outside the city limits, and Osmundson became state legislators.Thorstein Veblen, who similarly grew up just outside the town, became a noted sociologist and economist.
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