Guide to Garrison Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 213 people, 113 households, and 48 families residing in the city. The population density was 76.9/km² (198.9/mi²). There were 191 housing units at an average density of 68.9/km² (178.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.65% White, 0.94% Native American, and 1.41% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.94% of the population.

There were 113 households out of which 11.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.4% were married couples living together, 1.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 57.5% were non-families. 44.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 19.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.88 and the average family size was 2.67.

In the city the population was spread out with 15.0% under the age of 18, 4.2% from 18 to 24, 22.5% from 25 to 44, 32.4% from 45 to 64, and 25.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 52 years. For every 100 females there were 117.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 118.1 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $23,750, and the median income for a family was $36,250. Males had a median income of $25,417 versus $19,000 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,447. About 10.5% of families and 14.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 29.4% of those under the age of eighteen and 19.1% of those sixty five or over.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

GARRISON Township was named in honor of Oscar E. Garrison, a land surveyor and civil engineer, who was born at Fort Ann, N.Y., July 21, 1825, and died on his farm in this township, April 2, 1886. He came to Minnesota in 1850, explored Lake Minnetonka and platted the village of Wayzata in 1854, removed to St. Cloud in 1860, served in the Northern Rangers against the Dakota, 1862, was agent of the U.S. Census, Department of Forestry, 1880, examining the region of the Upper Mississippi, on which his observations were published (49 pp.) in the Ninth Annual Report of the Minnesota Geological Survey. He took his homestead claim here in 1882. The city and resort community, sections 13 and 14, with over 200 lakes within a 20-mile radius, was settled in 1880 with Garrison platting the townsite first known as Rowe; it was incorporated on May 3, 1937. The post office opened in 1884; Mary J. Garrison, wife of Oscar, became postmaster and the name was changed. Section 13 of the township was platted as Midland in the early 1900s and is part of the present Garrison. A major sawmill was built there in 1895.