Blue Mounds (Wisconsin)
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Blue Mounds is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Dane County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Blue Mounds had 855 inhabitants.
Blue Mounds is part of the metropolitan area of Madison.
Geography
Blue Mounds is located in south central Wisconsin, in the western suburbs of the capital, Madison. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois is located 100 km south-west.
The geographic coordinates of Blue Mounds are 43 ° 01'03 " north latitude and 89 ° 49'56 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 2.36 km ². The location of Blue Mounds is located east of the predominantly located in neighboring Iowa County Blue Mound State Park.
The center of Madison is located 40 km east. Other neighboring towns are Mazomanie (22,8 km to the north), Black Earth ( 18.3 km NNE ), Cross Plains (25.4 km northeast), Mount Horeb (8.3 km east), Hollandale (22,8 km southwest), Barneveld (5.4 miles west) and Arena ( 24.1 km NNW ).
The nearest big cities are Green Bay (264 km northeast), Milwaukee (174 km east), Chicago (260 km southeast) and Rockford (137 km south-southeast ).
Traffic
Along the southern Ortsrandes run on a four-lane section of track shared the U.S. Highways 18 and 151 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Parallel to the road U.S. 18 / U.S. 151 runs through the city on the route of a former railway line of the Chicago and North Western Railway with the Military Ridge State Trail, a rail trail for walkers and cyclists. In the winter the trail can be traveled with snowmobiles.
The nearest airport is Dane County Regional Airport in Madison ( 50.8 km ENE ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Blue Mounds 855 people in 336 households. The population density was 362.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 336 households lived statistically 2.54 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.8 percent white, 0.1 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
27.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 63.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 8.7 percent were 65 years or older. 51.0 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 55,982. The per capita income was $ 27,120. 6.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.