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Notable locations in Fertile: Fertile Golf Course (A), Fertile Police Department (B), Polk County Library - Fertile (C), Fertile Fire Department and Polk County Ambulance Service (D). Display/hide their locations on the map
Churches in Fertile include: Saint John's Lutheran Church (A), Saint Joseph's Catholic Church (B), Concordia Lutheran Church (C), First Evanger Lutheran Church (D), Hope Evangelical Free Church (E), Jehovah's Witnesses Congregation (F). Display/hide their locations on the map
Reservoir: Sand Hill River Reservoir (A). Display/hide its location on the map
Tourist attraction: Agassiz Environmental Learning Center (Nature Centers; 400 Summit Avenue Southwest).
Hotel: Sand Hill Motel (601 South Mill Street).
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Polk County has a predicted average indoor radon screening level greater than 4 pCi/L (pico curies per liter) - Highest Potential
Drinking water stations with addresses in Fertile that have no violations reported:
- FERTILE (Population served: 877, Primary Water Source Type: Groundwater)
- NESS LUTHERAN CHURCH (Population served: 120, Primary Water Source Type: Groundwater)
- ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH (Address: P.O. Box 615, Population served: 100, Primary Water Source Type: Groundwater)
- ST. PETRI'S LUTHERAN CHURCH (Population served: 100, Primary Water Source Type: Groundwater)
- SUNDAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (Population served: 100, Primary Water Source Type: Groundwater)
- LITTLE NORWAY LUTHERAN CHURCH (Population served: 30, Primary Water Source Type: Groundwater)
- MENTOR CONVENIENCE STORE (Population served: 25, Primary Water Source Type: Groundwater)
Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2009: 7.3%
(7.4% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 0.0% for Hispanic or Latino residents)
Average household size:
| This city: |  2.1 people | | Minnesota: |  2.4 people |
| This city: | 56.7% | | Whole state: | 66.5% |
| This city: | 1.8% | | Whole state: | 5.3% |
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Fertile, MN
68 people in nursing homes
Fertile compared to Minnesota state average:
- Median household income below state average.
- Median house value below state average.
- Unemployed percentage above state average.
- Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Median age significantly above state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
- Institutionalized population percentage significantly above state average.
- Number of college students below state average.
- Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher below state average.
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Banks with branches in Fertile (2011 data):
- First State Bank of Fertile: First State Bank Of Fertile at 114 Mill Street North, branch established on 1887/12/12. Info updated 2006/11/03: Bank assets: $35.0 mil, Deposits: $29.6 mil, local headquarters, positive income, Agricultural Specialization, 1 total offices, Holding Company: Fertile Bancshares, Inc.
Educational Attainment (%)
School Enrollment by Level of School (%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (47%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Wood (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
2004 Presidential Election results in Polk County Minnesota:
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Religion statistics for Fertile (based on Polk County data)
Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 73.32%
| Here | | 73.3% |
| USA | | 50.2% |
Breakdown of population affiliated with a religious congregations
| Name | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | Catholic Church | Lutheran Church | Association of Free Lutheran Congregations | Presbyterian Church (USA) |
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| Adherents | 43.0% | 36.5% | 6.9% | 4.3% | 3.5% |
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| Congregations | 42.7% | 10.7% | 9.3% | 12.0% | 4.0% |
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| Name | United Methodist Church | Baptist General Conference | Evangelical Free Church of America | LDS (Mormon) Church | Other |
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| Adherents | 1.9% | 1.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 1.9% |
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| Congregations | 5.3% | 2.7% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 10.7% |
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Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center.
Tables represent county-level data.
Food Environment Statistics:Number of grocery stores: 7 | Polk County: | 2.28 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 1.83 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 1 | This county: | 0.33 / 10,000 pop. | | Minnesota: | 0.49 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 16 | Polk County: | 5.20 / 10,000 pop. | | Minnesota: | 3.90 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of full-service restaurants: 18 | This county: | 5.85 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 6.98 / 10,000 pop. |
Adult diabetes rate: | Polk County: | 7.5% | | Minnesota: | 6.5% |
Adult obesity rate: | Polk County: | 27.6% | | State: | 25.9% |
Low-income preschool obesity rate:
| Local government employment and payroll (March 2007) |
| Function |
Full-time employees |
Monthly full-time payroll |
Average yearly full-time wage |
Part-time employees |
Monthly part-time payroll |
| Other Government Administration |
1 | $2,522 | $30,264 | 0 | $0 |
| Streets and Highways |
0 | $0 | | 1 | $2,028 |
| Water Supply |
1 | $2,712 | $32,544 | 0 | $0 |
| Totals for Government |
2 | $5,234 | $31,404 | 1 | $2,028 |
Fertile government finances in 2002:
- Charges - Air Transportation: $2,000 ($2.37)
- Charges - All Other: $3,456,000 ($4099.64)
Parks & Recreation: $34,000 ($40.33)
- Current Operations - Welfare - Other: $3,127,000 ($3709.37)
General - Other: $127,000 ($150.65)
Water Utilities: $96,000 ($113.88)
Regular Highways: $87,000 ($103.20)
Financial Administration: $41,000 ($48.64)
Police Protection: $40,000 ($47.45)
Fire Protection: $22,000 ($26.10)
Central Staff Services: $12,000 ($14.23)
Air Transportation: $9,000 ($10.68)
Parks & Recreation: $5,000 ($5.93)
Natural Resources - Other: $1,000 ($1.19)
- General - Interest on Debt: $15,000 ($17.79)
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding - Water Utilities: $101,000 ($119.81)
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding, NEC: $291,000 ($345.20)
- Long Term Debt Outstanding - Full Faith & Credit - Other, NEC: $178,000 ($211.15)
- Long Term Debt Outstanding Nonguaranteed - Water Utilities: $86,000 ($102.02)
Other, NEC: $84,000 ($99.64)
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified - Other, NEC: $29,000 ($34.40)
Water Utilities: $15,000 ($17.79)
- Miscellaneous - General Revenue, NEC: $85,000 ($100.83)
Interest Earnings: $13,000 ($15.42)
Special Assessments: $8,000 ($9.49)
- Other Capital Outlay - Fire Protection: $109,000 ($129.30)
Welfare - Other: $36,000 ($42.70)
General - Other: $21,000 ($24.91)
Regular Highways: $5,000 ($5.93)
- Revenue - Water Utilities: $112,000 ($132.86)
- State Intergovernmental - General Support: $191,000 ($226.57)
All Other: $31,000 ($36.77)
- Tax - Property: $126,000 ($149.47)
NEC: $3,000 ($3.56)
- Total Salaries & Wages: $213,000 ($252.67)
- Water Utilities - Interest on Debt: $6,000 ($7.12)
6.19% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($29,008 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 6.19% | | Minnesota average: | 7.79% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
7.26% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($28,344 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 7.26% | | Minnesota average: | 7.84% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Fertile:
- WWNL (1080 AM; 50 kW; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: STEEL CITY RADIO, INC.)
- KPRM (870 AM; 25 kW; PARK RAPIDS, MN; Owner: DE LA HUNT BROADCASTING CORP.)
- KKCQ (1480 AM; 5 kW; FOSSTON, MN; Owner: PINE TO PRAIRIE BROADCASTING, INC.)
- KQWB (1660 AM; 10 kW; WEST FARGO, ND; Owner: MONTEREY LICENSES, LLC)
- KFNW (1200 AM; 10 kW; WEST FARGO, ND; Owner: NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE)
- KNOX (1310 AM; 5 kW; GRAND FORKS, ND; Owner: LEIGHTON ENTERPRISES, INC.)
- KCNN (1590 AM; 5 kW; EAST GRAND FORKS, MN; Owner: KRAD, INC.)
- WEBC (560 AM; 50 kW; DULUTH, MN)
- WDAY (970 AM; 5 kW; FARGO, ND; Owner: FORUM COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY)
- KFGO (790 AM; 5 kW; FARGO, ND; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- KXMR (710 AM; 50 kW; BISMARCK, ND; Owner: RADIO BISMARCK MANDAN, LLC)
- KROX (1260 AM; 1 kW; CROOKSTON, MN)
- KVOX (1280 AM; 5 kW; MOORHEAD, MN; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
Strongest FM radio stations in Fertile:
- KRJM (101.5 FM; MAHNOMEN, MN; Owner: R & J BROADCASTING)
- KNTN (102.7 FM; THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN; Owner: MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO)
- KQMN (91.5 FM; THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN; Owner: MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO)
- KRJB (106.3 FM; ADA, MN; Owner: R & J BROADCASTING)
TV broadcast stations around Fertile:
- KXJB-TV (Channel 4; VALLEY CITY, ND; Owner: CATAMOUNT BROADCASTING OF FARGO LLC)
FCC Registered Cell Phone Towers: 2 - NDFA_Fertile, Center Avenue (196482357 Ndgf_fertile) (Lat: 47.522556 Lon: -96.260833), Type: Tower, Structure height: 91.4 m, Overall height: 94.5 m, Call Sign: KNKA571
Assigned Frequencies: 869.040 MHz, 869.040 MHz, 869.040 MHz, 824.040 MHz, 824.040 MHz, 824.040 MHz, 890.010 MHz, 890.010 MHz, 890.010 MHz, 845.010 MHz, 845.010 MHz, 845.010 MHz
Grant Date: 10/21/2008, Expiration Date: 11/27/2018
Registrant: Alltel Communications, LLC, One Allied Drive, B1f02-D, Little Rock, AR 72202, Phone: (501) 905-8555, Fax: (501) 905-6193, Email:
- NDFA_Fertile, Center Avenue (196482357 Ndgf_fertile) (Lat: 47.522556 Lon: -96.260833), Type: Tower, Structure height: 91.4 m, Overall height: 94.5 m, Call Sign: KNKN451
Assigned Frequencies: 869.040 MHz, 869.040 MHz, 869.040 MHz, 824.040 MHz, 824.040 MHz, 824.040 MHz, 890.010 MHz, 890.010 MHz, 890.010 MHz, 845.010 MHz, 845.010 MHz, 845.010 MHz
Grant Date: 11/21/2000, Expiration Date: 10/01/2010
Registrant: Alltel Communications, LLC, One Allied Drive, B1f02-D, Little Rock, AR 72202, Phone: (501) 905-8555, Fax: (501) 905-6193, Email:
FCC Registered Antenna Towers: 3 - James E McDonald, Center Avenue (196482357 Ndgf_fertile) (Lat: 47.522556 Lon: -96.260833), Type: Tower, Structure height: 91.4 m, Overall height: 94.5 m
Registrant: Alltel Communications, Inc., One Allied Drive, B2f2-A, Little Rock, AR 72202, Phone: (501) 905-8555, Email:
- James E McDonald, Center Avenue (196482357 Ndgf_fertile) (Lat: 47.522556 Lon: -96.260833), Type: Tower, Structure height: 91.4 m, Overall height: 94.5 m
Registrant: Alltel Communications, Inc., One Allied Drive, B2f2-A, Little Rock, AR 72202, Phone: (501) 905-8555, Email:
- 6 Mi Ne (Lat: 47.620833 Lon: -96.221111), Type: Tower, Structure height: 91 m, Overall height: 98 m
Registrant: Garden Valley Telephone Company, 201 Ross Ave, Erskine, MN 56535, Phone: (218) 687-2400
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 5 - 7 1/2 Mi E & 2 1/I Mi N (Lat: 47.542194 Lon: -96.118667), Call Sign: KNDN618
Assigned Frequencies: 157.680 MHz
Grant Date: 06/27/1997, Expiration Date: 08/27/2002, Cancellation Date: 12/29/2002
Registrant: Morvig, Alton, Rr 2, Fertile, MN 56540, Phone: (218) 945-6025 - 5 Mi W (Lat: 47.574694 Lon: -96.352278), Call Sign: KZD971, Licensee ID: L00349554
Assigned Frequencies: 154.540 MHz
Grant Date: 04/24/2001, Expiration Date: 05/06/2011
Registrant: Engelstad Stock And Grain, Rr 1 Box 429, Mentor, MN 56736, Phone: (218) 945-6240 - 4 Mi W And 3/4 Mi N (Lat: 47.522194 Lon: -96.358667), Call Sign: WZS882
Assigned Frequencies: 151.565 MHz
Grant Date: 02/09/2005, Expiration Date: 02/08/2015
Registrant: Federal Licensing Inc, 1588 Fairfield Road, Gettysburg, PA 17325, Phone: (717) 334-9262, Fax: (717) 334-6440 - 1/4 Mi N Of Jct Of Cty Hwy 41 & 12 (Lat: 47.620806 Lon: -96.221167), Call Sign: KUW885, Licensee ID: L00020181
Assigned Frequencies: 451.325 MHz
Grant Date: 09/26/2002, Expiration Date: 11/24/2012
Registrant: Garden Valley Telephone Company, Erskine, MN 56535-0259 - Lat: 47.569056 Lon: -96.219333, Call Sign: WPYG443
Assigned Frequencies: 451.500 MHz, 451.775 MHz
Grant Date: 08/06/2003, Expiration Date: 08/06/2013, Certifier: Paul Kaste
Registrant: Stones Mobile Radio, 1550 47th Avenue, South, Grand Forks, ND 58201, Phone: (701) 772-6691
FCC Registered Paging Towers: 2 - 1/4 Mile North Of Junction Of Highways 41 And 12 (Lat: 47.620778 Lon: -96.221139), Call Sign: KNKK647
Assigned Frequencies: 158.100 MHz
Grant Date: 08/17/1998, Expiration Date: 07/01/2008, Cancellation Date: 01/22/2008, Certifier: Elizabeth L Kohler
Registrant: Lukas, Nace, Gutierrez & Sachs, Chtd., 1650 Tysons Blvd., Suite 1500, Mclean, VA 22102, Phone: (703) 584-8661, Email:
- 1/4 Mile North Of Junction Of Highways 41 And 12 (Lat: 47.620778 Lon: -96.221139), Overall height: 97.9 m, Call Sign: KFL866, Licensee ID: L00020181
Assigned Frequencies: 152.720 MHz
Grant Date: 05/20/2008, Expiration Date: 07/01/2018
Registrant: Garden Valley Telephone Company, 201 Ross Avenue, Erskine, MN 56535
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 12 ( See the full list of FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Fertile)
FAA Registered Aircraft: 3 - Aircraft: CESSNA 150F (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 90 mph), Engine: CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 6403F , Serial Number: 15063003, Year manufactured: 1966, Airworthiness Date: 01/29/1966
Registrant (Corporation): Fertile Flying Club Inc, Po Box 466, Fertile, MN 56540 - Aircraft: FAIRCHILD 22 C7E (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 90 mph), Engine: WARNER SS40&50 (90 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 9485 , Serial Number: 1608, Year manufactured: 1934, Airworthiness Date: 03/28/1958
Registrant (Individual): Pending Registration, C/O Dan Wilkens / 107 Stephen Dr Ne, Fertile, MN 56540 - Aircraft: CHAMPION AERONCA 7FC (Category: Land, Seats: 3, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 90 mph), Engine: CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 9817Y , Serial Number: 7FC-401, Year manufactured: 1960, Airworthiness Date: 10/28/1960
Registrant (Individual): Roger S Raaen, 101 Highway 1 W, Fertile, MN 56540
2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents:
See full 2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System statistics for Fertile, MN
| Most common first names in Fertile, MN among deceased individuals |
| Name | Count | Lived (average) |
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| Clara | 23 | 87.5 years |
| Arthur | 19 | 82.5 years |
| John | 19 | 83.9 years |
| Ida | 17 | 85.5 years |
| Oscar | 16 | 82.0 years |
| Clarence | 15 | 78.9 years |
| Carl | 14 | 84.0 years |
| Henry | 14 | 80.1 years |
| Myrtle | 13 | 82.8 years |
| Alice | 12 | 85.0 years |
| Most common last names in Fertile, MN among deceased individuals |
| Last name | Count | Lived (average) |
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| Johnson | 30 | 84.2 years |
| Larson | 28 | 84.7 years |
| Olson | 27 | 76.8 years |
| Erickson | 25 | 82.2 years |
| Nelson | 24 | 79.3 years |
| Hanson | 20 | 83.4 years |
| Carlson | 15 | 83.2 years |
| Jacobson | 14 | 81.0 years |
| Gullickson | 13 | 81.4 years |
| Strem | 12 | 83.2 years |
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