Beaver Dam (Wisconsin)
Dodge County
55-05900
Beaver Dam is the largest city ( with a status of "City" ) in Dodge County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Beaver Dam had 16,214 inhabitants.
Geography
Beaver Dam is located in the central southeastern Wisconsin, on Beaver Dam Lake, a reservoir of the Beaver Dam River, which belongs on the Crawfish and Rock River to the basin of the Mississippi. The geographic coordinates of Beaver Dam are 43 ° 27'28 " north latitude and 88 ° 50'14 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 21.16 km ², spread over 17.59 km ² land and 3.57 km ² water surface.
Neighboring villages of Beaver Dam are Waupun ( 22.1 km NNE ), Burnett (13,9 km east-northeast ), Horicon (17,7 km east), Juneau (14,3 km southeast), Leipsig (7 km south), Lowell ( 15.5 km in the same direction), Columbus (20,2 km southwest), fall River ( 21.2 km west-southwest ), Randolph (21,7 km northwest ) and Fox Lake ( 14.7 km NNW ).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (153 km north-northeast ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee ( 99.7 km southeast), Chicago, Illinois (249 km south-southeast ), Rockford, Illinois (157 km south-southwest ) and Wisconsin's capital Madison (65, 9 km south-west ).
Traffic
The four-lane U.S. Highway 151 runs along the eastern border. The Wisconsin State Highway 33 leads as the main road through the center of Beaver Dam. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
For freight traffic runs from northwest to east railway line of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad through the city of Beaver Dam.
With the Dodge County Airport is located 13.4 km east-southeast a small airfield. The next airports are the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (62 km southwest) and the General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee (111 kilometers south-east ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Beaver Dam 16,214 people in 6819 households. The population density was 921.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 6819 households lived statistically 2.32 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 93.0 percent white, 0.8 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 1.0 percent Asian and 3.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 7.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.1 percent were 65 years or older. 51.6 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 46,581. The per capita income was $ 24,885. 10.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Michael E. Burke (1863-1918) - Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1911-1917) - always lived in Beaver Dam
- Zona Gale (1874-1938) - writer and Pulitzer Prize winner - attended school in Beaver Dam
- Bobby Hatfield (1940-2003) - singer - born in Beaver Dam
- Robert Meier Case (* 1924) - Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives ( 1959-1991 ) - Born and raised in Beaver Dam
- David Maley ( b. 1963 ) - former professional hockey player - born and raised in Beaver Dam
- A. Scott Sloan (1820-1895) - Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1861-1863) - lived long in Beaver Dam and is buried here