Gratiot (Wisconsin)

Lafayette County

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Gratiot is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Lafayette County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Gratiot had 236 inhabitants.

Geography

Gratiot is located in southwest Wisconsin on the Pecatonica River, a tributary of the opening into the Mississippi Rock River. The formed from the Mississippi border to Iowa is located 56 km west of the border with Illinois runs 9 km south of the city. The geographical coordinates of 42 ° 34'44 Gratiot are " north latitude and 90 ° 01'21 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 1.53 km ² and is completely surrounded by the Town of Gratiot, without belonging to it.

Neighboring towns are Lamont ( 16.9 km NNE ) Wiota (10,5 km northeast), South Wayne (12,6 km to the east ), Warren in Illinois ( 11.3 km SSE ), Apple River, Illinois ( 14.5 km southwest ), Shullsburg (18 miles west) and Darlington (17,9 km northwest ).

The nearest large towns are La Crosse (216 km north-northwest ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison ( 97.6 km to the northeast ), Rockford, Illinois (101 km east-southeast ), the Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois (167 km south-southwest ) and Dubuque, Iowa ( 61.4 km to the west ).

Traffic

The Wisconsin State Highway 11 runs as the main street in east-west direction through Gratiot and there crosses the Wisconsin State Highway 78 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

The nearest airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport ( 73.3 km west-southwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (106 km northeast).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Gratiot 236 people in 97 households. The population density was 154.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 97 households lived statistically 2.43 per person.

Ethnically, the population consisted of five exceptions only from whites.

24.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.2 percent were 65 years or older. 46.2 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 36,667. The per capita income was $ 19,512. 12.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.