Silver Lake, Minnesota
Silver Lake is a city in McLeod County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 866 at the 2020 census. History Silver Lake was platted in 1881, and named for the lake near the town site. Silver Lake was incorporated in 1889. The city was co-founded by John S. Jerabek. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Minnesota State Highway 7 serves as a main route in the city. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 837 people, 352 households, and 214 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 379 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 99.4% White, 0.2% Asian, and 0.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.4% of the population. There were 352 households, of which 31.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.0% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband pres ...
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City
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ...
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