Brainerd
Brainerd is a city in and the county seat of Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 14,395 at the 2020 census. Brainerd straddles the Mississippi River several miles upstream from its confluence with the Crow Wing River, having been founded as a site for a railroad crossing above the confluence.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: City with 13,700 residents
- Description: city in Minnesota, United States
- Also known as: “Brainerd, Minnesota”, “Brainerd, MN”, and “Oski-odena”
- Postal code: 56401
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brainerd Public Library and Northland Arboretum.
Brainerd Public Library
Library
Photo: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The historic Brainerd Public Library is a Carnegie library built in 1904. The building is located at 206 7th Street North in Brainerd, Minnesota, United States, and is in the Classical Revival architectural style using granite and brick.
Northland Arboretum
Garden
The Northland Arboretum is a 583-acre non-profit arboretum and nature reserve in Brainerd, Minnesota, United States. The arboretum was founded in 1972 when the Brainerd Landfill closed; that original 40-acre within the arboretum.
Brainerd Water Tower
Water tower
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Brainerd Water Tower is located at Sixth and Washington in Brainerd in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Built in 1918, it was the first all-concrete elevated tank used by a municipality in the United States; even though it was replaced in 1960, it remains standing as an icon of the town.
Brainerd
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of Brainerd, Crow Wing, Northwestern Minnesota, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.358° or 46° 21′ 29″ northLongitude
-94.2008° or 94° 12′ 3″ westPopulation
13,700Elevation
1,217 feet (371 metres)IATA airport code
BRDUnited Nations Location Code
US BRDOpen location code
86R79Q5X+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 151584460OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
5019116Wikidata ID
Q897435
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Brainerd” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “برينرد، مينيسوتا”
- Arabic: “برينرد”
- Basque: “Brainerd”
- Bulgarian: “Брейнърд”
- Catalan: “Brainerd (Minnesota)”
- Catalan: “Brainerd”
- Cebuano: “Brainerd”
- Chechen: “Брейнерд”
- Chinese: “Brainerd”
- Chinese: “佈雷納德”
- Chinese: “布雷納德”
- Chinese: “布雷纳德”
- Czech: “Brainerd”
- Dagbani: “Brainerd”
- Danish: “Brainerd”
- Dutch: “Brainerd (Minnesota)”
- Dutch: “Brainerd”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برينرد”
- French: “Brainerd (Minnesota)”
- French: “Brainerd”
- German: “Brainerd”
- German: “City of Brainerd”
- Gilaki: “برینرد (مينسؤتا)”
- Gilaki: “برینرد”
- Haitian: “Brainerd, Minnesota”
- Haitian: “Brainerd”
- Hungarian: “Brainerd”
- Ido: “Brainerd, Minnesota”
- Ido: “Brainerd”
- Irish: “Brainerd”
- Italian: “Brainerd”
- Japanese: “ブレーナード”
- Japanese: “ブレイナード”
- Kazakh: “Брэйнерд”
- Kirghiz: “Брэйнерд”
- Korean: “브레이너드”
- Ladin: “Brainerd”
- Malagasy: “Brainerd, Minnesota”
- Malagasy: “Brainerd”
- Mazanderani: “برینرد (مینهسوتا)”
- Mazanderani: “برینرد”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Brainerd”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brainerd”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brainerd”
- Persian: “برینرد، مینه سوتا”
- Persian: “برینرد، مینهٔ سوتا”
- Persian: “برینرد، مینهسوتا”
- Persian: “برینرد”
- Polish: “Brainerd”
- Portuguese: “Brainerd”
- Russian: “Брейнерд”
- Serbian: “Brainerd, Minnesota”
- Serbian: “Brainerd”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Brainerd, Minnesota”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Brainerd”
- Silesian: “Brainerd”
- Slovak: “Brainerd”
- South Azerbaijani: “برینرد، مینهسوتا”
- Spanish: “Brainerd (Minnesota)”
- Spanish: “Brainerd”
- Swedish: “Brainerd, Minnesota”
- Swedish: “Brainerd”
- Tatar: “Брейнерд”
- Turkish: “Brainerd, Minnesota”
- Turkish: “Brainerd”
- Ukrainian: “Брейнерд”
- Urdu: “برینرڈ، مینیسوٹا”
- Urdu: “برینرڈ”
- Uzbek: “Brainerd”
- Vietnamese: “Brainerd, Minnesota”
- Vietnamese: “Brainerd”
- Volapük: “Brainerd (Minnesota)”
- Volapük: “Brainerd (MN)”
- Volapük: “Brainerd, Minnesota”
- Volapük: “Brainerd”
- Waray (Philippines): “Brainerd, Minnesota”
- Waray (Philippines): “Brainerd”
- Welsh: “Brainerd, Minnesota”
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