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Detroit Lakes

city in Becker County, Minnesota, United States
Place city_in_the_united_states Q1898538

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
city in the United States
Inception
1871[7]
Official website
www.ci.detroit-lakes.mn.us[8]
Official name
Detroit Lakes[12]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.817°, -95.845°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Becker County[2]

Population and size

Area
+41.319199, +39.356296[15][16]
Elevation above sea level
+417[14]
Population
+8569, +9869[9][10]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 8,569 · 9,869 GeoNames 9,002 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
218[6]
Postal code
56501, 56502[4][5]
More facts +5
Capital of
Becker County[11]
Number of households
+3891[13]
Per capita income
+38164[19]
Territory overlaps
Detroit Lakes urban area[18]
Water as percent of area
+32.7471[17]
🏷️ Also known as
en Detroit Lakes en Detroit Lakes, Minnesota en Detroit Lakes, MN ar ديترويت ليكس el Ντιτρόιτ Λέικς es Detroit Lakes (Minnesota) fa دیترویت لیکز، مینهٔ سوتا fa دیترویت لیکز، مینه سوتا fa دیترویت لیکس ja デトロイト・レイクス ko 디트로이트레이크스 ru Детройт-Лейкс tr Detroit Lakes, Minnesota zh 底特律莱克斯 zh-hant 底特律萊克斯
🔖 Identifiers · 22
VIAF cluster ID
153627240
Library of Congress authority ID
n82075647
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Washington Avenue at Front Street looking south, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
26012
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/Minnesota/Localities/D/Detroit_Lakes/
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
27-15832
FactGrid item ID
FOK
Freebase ID
/m/0vsz4
GNIS Feature ID
642777, 2394527
GeoNames ID
5024237
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
detroit-lakes
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0439907
Show all 22 identifiers +10
MusicBrainz area ID
7bd2855d-bb24-408e-ba28-9ae97faeda7f
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007534114205171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
137487
Quora topic ID
Detroit-Lakes-MN
Topic's main category
Category:Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10041502
UN/LOCODE
USDTL
WOEID
2391639
Who's on First ID
85952663
Yale LUX ID
place/602b3644-7199-4ffb-bcc2-f0d805a2630b

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🔗 Connections
People born here 4
Dave Reichert, Adam Thielen, Janet Benshoof, Jeff Johnson
Contained subdivisions 3
Detroit Lakes Airport, Detroit Lakes Tribune, DL-Online
People who died here 2
Tillie Anderson, Thomas Frank Marshall
← Place of publication 2
Detroit Lakes Tribune, DL-Online
Capital of 1
Becker County
Country 1
United States
Instance of 1
city in the United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Becker County
Located in time zone 1
Central Time Zone
Named after 1
Detroit Lakes Airport
Residents 1
Ed Schultz
← Capital 1
Becker County
← Place served by transport hub 1
Detroit Lakes Airport
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Summary

Detroit Lakes is a city in the United States[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Detroit Lakes include Detroit Lakes Airport[20], an airport[21], in United States[22].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include Detroit Lakes Airport[20], an airport[21], in United States[22].

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . 2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . 2023 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Becker County
    Official website → http://www.ci.detroit-lakes.mn.us
    Inception → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 46.817222222222, 'lon': -95.845277777778}
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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