Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 14039 | 4 | ||||||
| 1940 | 15654 | 0 | ||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | 23797 | 23730 | 8 | 59 | 0 | |||
| 1970 | 30895 | 80 | ||||||
| 1980 | 28651 | 197 | ||||||
| 1990 | 31477 | 30301 | 218 | 65 | ||||
| 2000 | 32427 | 30001 | 616 | 184 | ||||
| 2010 | 39309 | 1583 | ||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A former resident who lived in the city from 1963-1970 said: “The Mankato that we moved into had no permanent resident blacks, with the only “Negro” residents being students at Mankato State College. None of them ever stayed on to live in Mankato. In 1966 or 1967 a doctor named Dr. Ayers came to Mankato to be on the faculty of MSC’s rehabilitation counseling program. He was black and had a white wife and 2 or 3 mixed-race children. I heard rumors that near panic had set in among some residents of blocks surrounding their home, as the white residents feared the values of their homes would plummet. In ensuing years a few other black college faculty and other professionals began to trickle into town, with no big uproar to my memory. In 1994-95 I returned to that town for a stint of graduate studies, and there were African-Americans living in town.”
* Only 49 out of the 80 black residents in 1970 lived in a household.