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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Minnesota.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 448 law enforcement agencies employing 9,667 sworn police officers, about 185 for each 100,000 residents.
Duluth, Minnesota: 48 2 Minnesota Power [11] 1949/1951: Sherburne County Generating Station: Becker, Minnesota: 2,238 3 Xcel Energy [12] U1: 1976 - closing 2026 U2: 1977 - closing 2023 U3: 1987 - closing 2030 Taconite Harbor Energy Center Schroeder, Minnesota: 155 3 (1 retired, 2 idled) Minnesota Power [13] [14] U1: 1957 - closing 2022 U2: 1957 ...
Minnesota was divided into a south-eastern area including the Twin-Cities with area code 612 and the rest of the state in the south-west, north, and north-east with area code 218. [2] In 1954, the southern half of 612 was designated a separate numbering plan area with area code 507 as the third area code for the state.
The first agency created to protect the state's resources was founded in 1931 by the Minnesota Legislature as the Minnesota Department of Conservation. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] When the Department of Conservation was created, it brought together four separate state entities: forestry, game and fish, drainage and waters, and lands and timber, while adding a ...
Grand Rapids is a city in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States, and it is the county seat. The population was 11,126 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] The city is named for the 3.5-mile (5.6 km) long rapids in the Mississippi River which was the uppermost limit of practical steamboat travel during the late 19th century.
NSP is the successor to several companies that developed hydroelectric power, starting as early as 1852, at the St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, Minnesota. As a result NSP acquired and operated 3 hydroelectric power plants at the falls and just downstream, all built by 1908. One of the plants is still operating.
A Class A power source is a primary power source, i.e., a source that assures an essentially continuous supply of power. Types of auxiliary power services include Class B, a standby power plant to cover extended outages of the order of days; Class C, a 10-to-60-second quick-start unit to cover short-term outages of the order of hours; and Class ...
Pokegama Lake Dam (National ID MN00584) is a dam in Cohasset, Itasca County, Minnesota, northwest of the city of Grand Rapids. The concrete and timber crib dam was constructed in 1884 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers , with a height of 17 feet (5.2 m), and a length of 385 feet (117 m) at its crest. [ 1 ]