Arena (town), Wisconsin

Iowa County

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The Town of Arena is one of 14 Towns in Iowa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Arena 1456 inhabitants.

Town has a fundamentally different meaning than in other English-speaking area in Wisconsin. Rather, it corresponds to the usual in the other U.S. states townships that make up the next smallest administrative unit of the County.

The area of ​​the Town of Arena is part of the Madison Metropolitan Region.

Geography

The Town of Arena is located in southwestern Wisconsin, on the south bank of the Wisconsin River, a left tributary of the Mississippi. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota is located 140 km west-northwest; to Illinois, it is approximately 90 km to the south.

The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Arena are 43 ° 07'39 " north latitude and 89 ° 55'58 " west longitude. It extends over an area of ​​205.9 km ², based on 202.1 km ² land and 3.8 km ² water surface spread. The Town of Dodgeville completely surrounds the Village of Arena without them belonging to the Town.

The Town of Arena is located in the extreme northeast of Iowa County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:

Traffic

By Town performs in west-east direction of running along the Wisconsin River U.S. Highway 14 also run even the County Highways C, H, and K through the territory of the Town of Arena. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways.

Along the Wisconsin River runs for freight railway line of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad, which continues from the Mississippi River to Madison and from there to Milwaukee.

With the Iowa County Airport is located approximately 40 km south-west a small airfield. The next airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa ( about 130 km southwest), the La Crosse Regional Airport ( about 170 km north-west ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital city ( about 55 km east).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Arena 1456 people in 595 households. The population density was 7.2 people per square kilometer. In the 595 households lived statistically 2.45 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.7 percent white, 0.6 percent African American, 0.2 percent Asian, and 0.3 percent Polynesians 00000 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

20.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 67.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.4 percent were 65 years or older. 47.9 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 61,136. The per capita income was $ 32,108. 2.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Villages in the Town of Arena

In addition to scattered settlements still exist in the Town of Arena following unincorporated settlements:

  • Coon rock
  • Helena
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