Town file
Corcoran, Minnesota
Corcoran, Minnesota (Hennepin County, Minnesota) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 188, "A Garbage Disposal Full Of Secrets" (10 September 2020).
- Town
- Corcoran
- County
- Hennepin County
- State
- Minnesota
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 188
- Approximate location
- 45.107, -93.578
Episode 188 / 10 September 2020 / 169 min / full
A Garbage Disposal Full Of Secrets
"today we're in Corkran, Minnesota, which is in southeastern Minnesota ... a suburb of Minneapolis ... about 30 minutes to downtown Minneapolis ... this is in Hennepin County" about 0:04:36
The case: Murder of Carol Hoffman (August 10-11, 1980). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2020
- Population
- 5,671
- Median age
- 43 and a half years old
- Median household income
- $102,708
- Median home value
- $352,600
- Two-bedroom rent
- $1,660
- Cost of living
- 118
- Religious
- 55%
- Property crime
- ▼ about one third of the national average
- Violent crime
- ▼ under one third the average
History, in brief
- Joseph Morin was born in Montreal in 1810. about 0:06:06
- Morin went to Michigan in 1840, worked in the shipyards on Lake Superior and married in 1844. about 0:06:15
- In 1845 Morin and his wife left Minnesota in a birch bark canoe and followed the Black River for 15 days. about 0:06:15
- They reached the St. Croix River in a day, followed it to the Mississippi and went to St. Paul, where they stayed 11 years. about 0:07:30
- They moved to Corcoran in 1856, built a home and had eleven children. about 0:07:36
- The town was settled in 1855 and organized in 1858. about 0:08:51
- The city was named after Patrick B. Corkern, its first school teacher, merchant and postmaster. about 0:09:00
- The first school was a 12 by 16 log house built in the winter of 1857 by Corkern, and his first class had 16 children. about 0:10:11
- Corkern opened a general store in a log house on the west side of town; he was originally from Ireland and moved to the US in 1847. about 0:10:58
- The town was officially incorporated in 1948. about 0:11:26
- Niche.com ranked Corcoran number 4,330 in its list of best places to raise a family. about 0:11:36
The reviews read out
5 stars
"I really like Corcoran. It's small compared to the other cities around it, but the people are nice here."about 0:12:09
4 stars
"It's a great place to live, but since there isn't much to do that is super close, you have to find things to do yourself, which isn't necessarily bad."about 0:12:41
3 stars
"I love the small town feeling Corcoran has. There is no urgent need to develop because everything you could ask for is next door in Maple Grove; it has a hobby beekeeping association and a summer kids soccer program."about 0:13:08
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Crystal, Minnesota12 miles
- Andover, Minnesota15 miles
- Ham Lake, Minnesota21 miles
- Lino Lakes, Minnesota23 miles
- Shakopee, Minnesota24 miles
- Woodbury, Minnesota35 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.