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Brainerd

Brainerd is a city in and the county seat of , United States. Its population was 14,395 at the 2020 census. Brainerd straddles the several miles upstream from its confluence with the , having been founded as a site for a railroad crossing above the confluence.
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  • 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.

Library
Photo: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The historic 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.

Garden
The is a 583-acre non-profit arboretum and in Brainerd, Minnesota, United States. The arboretum was founded in 1972 when the Brainerd Landfill closed; that original 40-acre within the arboretum.

Water tower
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The is located at Sixth and Washington in Brainerd in the state of . 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

Latitude
46.358° or 46° 21′ 29″ north
Longitude
-94.2008° or 94° 12′ 3″ west
Population
13,700
Elevation
1,217 feet (371 metres)
IATA airport code
BRD
United Nations Location Code
US BRD
Open location code
86R79Q5X+6M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151584460
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5019116
Wiki­data ID
Q897435
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Brainerd”. Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0.