Black Earth, Wisconsin

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Black Earth is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Dane County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Black Earth had 1338 inhabitants.

Black Earth is part of the metropolitan area of ​​Madison.

Geography

Black Earth is located in south central Wisconsin, in the northwest suburban area of the capital, Madison. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois is located 124 km south-west.

The geographical coordinates of Black Earth 43 ​​° 08'14 " north latitude and 89 ° 44'48 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 2.23 km ².

The center of Madison is located 30.6 km east-southeast. Other neighboring towns are Sauk City (18,1 km to the north), Cross Plains ( 7.9 km east-southeast ), Mount Horeb (16,5 km to the south), Vermont ( 9.4 km SSW ) and Mazomanie (6,9 km north-west ).

The nearest big cities are Green Bay (248 km northeast), Milwaukee (168 km east), Chicago (264 km southeast) and Rockford (137 km south-southeast ).

Traffic

U.S. Highway 14 and in this section deckungsgsgleich running Wisconsin State Highways 78 head north past the center of Black Earth. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

In parallel to U.S. 14 passes through Black Earth a railroad line of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad, a regional (Class II ) Freight transportation company.

The nearest airport is Dane County Regional Airport in Madison ( 38.8 km to the east).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Black Earth 1338 people in 559 households. The population density was 600 people per square kilometer. In the 559 households lived statistically 2.32 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 96.7 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 1.4 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

22.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.2 percent were between 18 and 64, and 15.2 percent were 65 years or older. 50.2 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 64,250. The per capita income was $ 29,581. 3.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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