Editing Amboy, Minnesota

{{Short description|City in Minnesota, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
{{Infobox settlement
| official_name      = Amboy
| settlement_type    = [[City]]
| nickname           = 
| motto              = 
| image_skyline      = Amboy, Minnesota.jpg
| imagesize          = 
| image_caption      = [[U.S. Route 169 in Minnesota|US-169]] runs through town
| image_flag         = 
| image_seal         = 
| image_map          = Blue_Earth_County_Minnesota_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Amboy_Highlighted.svg
| mapsize            = 250px
| map_caption        = Location of Amboy, Minnesota
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| map_caption1       = 
| subdivision_type   = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name   = United States
| subdivision_type1  = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Minnesota]]
| subdivision_type2  = [[List of counties in Minnesota|County]]
| subdivision_name2  = [[Blue Earth County, Minnesota|Blue Earth]]
| government_footnotes = 
| government_type    = Mayor - Council
| leader_title       = Mayor
| leader_name        = Dave Witucki
| established_title  = 
| established_date   = 
| unit_pref          = Imperial
| area_footnotes     = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2020">{{cite web|title=2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_27.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=July 24, 2022}}</ref>
| area_magnitude     = 
| area_total_km2     = 0.81
| area_land_km2      = 0.81
| area_water_km2     = 0.00
| area_total_sq_mi   = 0.31
| area_land_sq_mi    = 0.31
| area_water_sq_mi   = 0.00
| population_as_of   = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
| population_est     = 
| pop_est_as_of      = 
| pop_est_footnotes  = 
| population_footnotes = 
| population_total   = 535
| population_density_km2 = 662.78
| population_density_sq_mi = 1714.74
| timezone           = [[North American Central Time Zone|Central (CST)]]
| utc_offset         = -6
| timezone_DST       = CDT
| utc_offset_DST     = -5
| elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/>
| elevation_ft       = 1043
| coordinates        = {{coord|43|53|17|N|94|10|00|W|region:US-MN|display=inline,title}}
| postal_code_type   = [[ZIP code]]
| postal_code        = 56010
| area_code          = [[Area code 507|507]]
| blank_name         = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info         = 27-01324
| blank1_name        = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
| blank1_info        = 2393945<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|2393945}}</ref>
| website            = {{URL|http://www.amboymn.govoffice2.com/|AmboyMN.Gov}}
| footnotes          = 
}}

'''Amboy''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|æ|m|b|oɪ}} {{respell|AM|boy}}) is a city in [[Blue Earth County, Minnesota|Blue Earth County]], [[Minnesota]], United States. The population was 535 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref name="2020 Census (City)">{{cite web|title=2020 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US2701324|work=American FactFinder|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=February 23, 2022}}</ref> It is part of the [[Mankato, Minnesota|Mankato]]-[[North Mankato, Minnesota|North Mankato]] [[Mankato-North Mankato metropolitan area|Metropolitan Statistical Area]]. The city was founded in 1879. It celebrated its 125th anniversary in September 2004.

==History==
Shelby Township was organized in 1858, the year Minnesota achieved statehood.  The township's main inducement to settlement was its rich prairie loam, rendered still more attractive by the availability of wood lots along the Blue Earth River.  By 1860, Shelby Township was the most populous in Blue Earth County.  In addition to its 315 residents, it also sustained a small but thriving village known as ''Shelbyville'', located in Section 35, about two miles south of modern Amboy.  In the early 1860s Shelbyville hosted the county fair.  The town included a hotel, church, schoolhouse, mill, two stores, a blacksmith shop, a wagon shop, and a post office.<ref name="Upham2001">{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press|location=Saint Paul, Minnesota|year=2001|edition=3|pages=67|isbn=978-0-87351-396-8}}</ref><ref name="HAER" />

By 1875, Shelby Township was a relatively mature agricultural area, well known for grains and livestock.  At that time, the township's population was 800, and it remained at approximately the same level for the next thirty years.  Despite such overall stability, there were some significant population shifts within the township itself.

The main catalyst for change was the [[St. Paul and Sioux City Railway]] (later a part of the [[Omaha Road]]), which in 1879 built a north-south branch line through Blue Earth County.  In several townships along the proposed route, residents offered the railroad financial incentives to locate a depot in their vicinity including donated land and a red cow with a broken horn.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schrader |first=Julie |title=The Heritage of Blue Earth County |publisher=Curtis Media Corporation |year=1990 |pages=470–471}}</ref>  For reasons that are not completely clear, the citizens of Shelbyville declined to do so.  On September 2, 1879, they voted down a proposition to give the railroad a $10,000 grant.  A week earlier, however, a group of farmers residing two miles north of Shelbyville had made the railroad an offer of their own.

The farmers' proposal, which was accepted, was to buy forty acres of land for the railroad, if the railroad would lay out town lots, build a depot, and build a grain elevator.  The town, named Amboy, was laid out in October 1879.  This triggered the death of Shelbyville, which was deserted within three years, the buildings having been moved to other locations.  Incorporating as a city in 1887, Amboy had more than 400 inhabitants by the turn of the century.<ref name="HAER">{{cite web|url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.mn0412 |title=Dodd Ford Bridge, County Road 147 Spanning Blue Earth River, Amboy vicinity, Blue Earth County, MN |year=1993|work=Historic American Engineering Record|publisher=Library of Congress|accessdate=January 17, 2010}}</ref>

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|0.31|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, all  land.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=U.S. Gazetteer files 2010 |url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |accessdate=November 13, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112090031/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt |archivedate=January 12, 2012 }}</ref>

[[U.S. Route 169 in Minnesota|U.S. Route 169]] and [[Minnesota State Highway 30]] are two of the main routes in the community.

===Climate===
{{Weather box   <!-- Infobox begins -->
| single line = Y
| location    = Amboy, Minnesota, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1905&ndash;2019

|Jan record high F = 62
|Feb record high F = 66
|Mar record high F = 84
|Apr record high F = 92
|May record high F = 102
|Jun record high F = 101
|Jul record high F = 101
|Aug record high F = 98
|Sep record high F = 96
|Oct record high F = 94
|Nov record high F = 82
|Dec record high F = 68

<!-- Average high temperatures -->
| Jan high F  =25.5
| Feb high F  =30.2
| Mar high F  =42.8
| Apr high F  =59.4
| May high F  =72.5
| Jun high F  =81.7
| Jul high F  =84.1
| Aug high F  =81.6
| Sep high F  =75.9
| Oct high F  =61.5
| Nov high F  =44.2
| Dec high F  =30.4
<!-- Mean daily temperature -->
| Jan mean F  =16.9
| Feb mean F  =21.2
| Mar mean F  =33.5
| Apr mean F  =47.8
| May mean F  =60.6
| Jun mean F  =70.6
| Jul mean F  =73.4
| Aug mean F  =70.7
| Sep mean F  =63.7
| Oct mean F  =50.4
| Nov mean F  =35.3
| Dec mean F  =22.4
<!-- Average low temperatures -->
| Jan low F  =8.3
| Feb low F  =12.2
| Mar low F  =24.3
| Apr low F  =36.3
| May low F  =48.7
| Jun low F  =59.5
| Jul low F  =62.6
| Aug low F  =59.8
| Sep low F  =51.6
| Oct low F  =39.2
| Nov low F  =26.4
| Dec low F  =14.3

|Jan record low F = -33
|Feb record low F = -36
|Mar record low F = -16
|Apr record low F = 7
|May record low F = 21
|Jun record low F = 35
|Jul record low F = 46
|Aug record low F = 38
|Sep record low F = 26
|Oct record low F = 14
|Nov record low F = -16
|Dec record low F = -27

<!-- Total precipitation, this should include rain and snow. -->
| precipitation colour    =  green
| Jan precipitation inch  =0.83
| Feb precipitation inch  =0.87
| Mar precipitation inch  =1.67
| Apr precipitation inch  =3.30
| May precipitation inch  =4.27
| Jun precipitation inch  =5.26
| Jul precipitation inch  =4.15
| Aug precipitation inch  =3.93
| Sep precipitation inch  =3.34
| Oct precipitation inch  =2.56
| Nov precipitation inch  =1.47
| Dec precipitation inch  =1.12

|unit precipitation days = 0.01 in
|Jan precipitation days = 5.3
|Feb precipitation days = 5.2
|Mar precipitation days = 6.7
|Apr precipitation days = 9.4
|May precipitation days = 10.7
|Jun precipitation days = 10.7
|Jul precipitation days = 8.4
|Aug precipitation days = 8.0
|Sep precipitation days = 6.9
|Oct precipitation days = 6.9
|Nov precipitation days = 5.0
|Dec precipitation days = 6.6

<!-- Snowfall -->
| Jan snow inch  =10.4
| Feb snow inch  =8.9
| Mar snow inch  =7.4
| Apr snow inch  =3.5
| May snow inch  =0.1
| Jun snow inch  =0.0
| Jul snow inch  =0.0
| Aug snow inch  =0.0
| Sep snow inch  =0.0
| Oct snow inch  =0.4
| Nov snow inch  =4.8
| Dec snow inch  =10.8

|unit snow days = 0.1 in
|Jan snow days = 4.3
|Feb snow days = 4.3
|Mar snow days = 2.5
|Apr snow days = 1.2
|May snow days = 0.1
|Jun snow days = 0.0
|Jul snow days = 0.0
|Aug snow days = 0.0
|Sep snow days = 0.0
|Oct snow days = 0.2
|Nov snow days = 2.0
|Dec snow days = 5.0

|source 1 = NOAA<ref name = NOAA>
{{cite web
|url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&stations=USC00210157&format=pdf&dataTypes=MLY-TMAX-NORMAL,MLY-TMIN-NORMAL,MLY-TAVG-NORMAL,MLY-PRCP-NORMAL,MLY-SNOW-NORMAL
|publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
|title = U.S. Climate Normals Quick Access – Station: Amboy, MN
|access-date = February 24, 2023
}}
</ref>
|source 2 = XMACIS2<ref name = XMACIS2>
{{cite web
|url = https://xmacis.rcc-acis.org/
|publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
|title = xmACIS2
|access-date = February 24, 2023
}}
</ref>
}}

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1880= 56
|1890= 215
|1900= 432
|1910= 435
|1920= 527
|1930= 593
|1940= 576
|1950= 585
|1960= 629
|1970= 571
|1980= 606
|1990= 517
|2000= 575
|2010= 534
|2020= 535
|align-fn=center
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|author=United States Census Bureau|author-link=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=September 12, 2013}}</ref><br>2020 Census<ref name="2020 Census (City)"/>
}}

===2010 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name ="wwwcensusgov">{{cite web|title=U.S. Census website|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=November 13, 2012}}</ref> of 2010, there were 534 people, 232 households, and 157 families residing in the city. The [[population density]] was {{convert|1722.6|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|1}}. There were 260 housing units at an average density of {{convert|838.7|/sqmi|/km2|1}}. The racial makeup of the city was 96.8% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 1.3% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.2% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.4% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 1.1% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 0.2% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 5.1% of the population.

There were 232 households, of which 26.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.2% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 8.6% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.9% had a male householder with no wife present, and 32.3% were non-families. 28.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.30 and the average family size was 2.78.

The median age in the city was 41.7 years. 21.2% of residents were under the age of 18; 9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23% were from 25 to 44; 28.4% were from 45 to 64; and 18.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 50.7% male and 49.3% female.

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]] of 2000, there were 575 people, 242 households, and 161 families residing in the city.  The population density was {{convert|1,838.9|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}.  There were 268 housing units at an average density of {{convert|857.1|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}.  The racial makeup of the city was 98.43% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.17% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], and 1.39% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 1.39% of the population.

There were 242 households, out of which 33.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.9% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 5.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.1% were non-families. 30.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.98.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 27.0% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 25.0% from 25 to 44, 23.0% from 45 to 64, and 19.0% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.9 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.8 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $35,595, and the median income for a family was $39,844. Males had a median income of $31,667 versus $20,833 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $15,658.  About 8.3% of families and 13.0% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 21.8% of those under age 18 and 12.8% of those age 65 or over.

==Education==
{{unreferenced section|date=June 2023}}
Maple River West Middle School is located in Amboy.  As the name implies it was a middle school, which serviced 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.  In the spring of 2009, the board members of The Maple River School District, Independent School District #2135, voted in favor of closing the Amboy middle school and reorganizing the student body in an effort to cut costs. Elementary students of Amboy normally go to schools in Minnesota Lake or Mankato, while middle or high school students usually attend schools in Mapleton, Lake Crystal or Mankato.

==References==
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{{Blue Earth County, Minnesota}}
{{Mankato North Mankato MSA}}

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[[Category:Cities in Blue Earth County, Minnesota]]
[[Category:Cities in Minnesota]]
[[Category:Mankato – North Mankato metropolitan area]]
[[Category:1879 establishments in Minnesota]]