Bergen, Vernon County, Wisconsin
Vernon County
55-06900
The Town of Bergen is one of 21 Towns in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Bergen 1364 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.
Geography
The Town of Bergen is located in southwest Wisconsin on the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Minnesota. Around 15 km south downstream of the point of intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
The Town of Bergen is located in the Driftless Area mentioned glacially shaped region that stretches across the southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and extreme northwestern Illinois. In the last ice age, the Wisconsin Glaciation so-called, the region remained free of ice, so that the river valleys were cut deep into the plateau during this time.
The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Bergen are 43 ° 39'34 " north latitude and 91 ° 12'28 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 136.7 km ², spread to 88.6 km ² land and 48.1 km ² water surface. The Town of Bergen enclosing the independent municipality Stoddard, without that belongs to the Town.
The Town of Bergen is located in the extreme northwest of Vernon County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns and townships:
Traffic
The running along the Mississippi Wisconsin State Highway 35 here is the Wisconsin section of the Great River Road. The current coming from the east Wisconsin State Highway 162 reaches the confluence with the WIS 35 in Stoddard its western terminus. In addition, run nor the County Highway O and K by the Town. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways.
Along the Mississippi runs for freight railway line of the BNSF Railway, the second largest railway company in the country.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( 25 km north ), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota ( 130 km west-northwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Wisconsin's capital, Madison ( 200 km east-southeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Bergen 1364 people in 546 households. The population density was 15.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 546 households lived statistically 2.5 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 98.5 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American and 0.1 percent Asian; 0.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
21.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 63.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.4 percent were 65 years or older. 48.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 60,089. The per capita income was $ 31,055. 3.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Bergen
In addition to scattered settlements exist in the Town of Pleasant Valley mountains with another unincorporated settlement.