Boscobel (town), Wisconsin
Grant County
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The Town of Boscobel is one of 33 Towns in Grant County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Boscobel 376 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 Boscobel is located in southwestern Wisconsin, on the south bank of the Wisconsin River, a left tributary of the Iowa border to forming Mississippi. The Town encompasses almost completely the small town of Boscobel, without that belongs to the Town. The border with Illinois is located approximately 70 km south.
The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Boscobel are 43 ° 08'17 " north latitude and 90 ° 41'41 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 18.9 km ², spread to 17.7 km ² land and 1.2 km ² water surface.
The Town of Boscobel is located in the north of Grant County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns and townships:
Traffic
U.S. Highway 61 and the Wisconsin State Highway 133 and County Highway M and S pass through the Town of Boscobel. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
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 Boscobel Airport is located in the southeast of the small town of Boscobel, a small airfield. The nearest major airport is Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital (120 km east).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Boscobel 376 people in 160 households. The population density was 21.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 160 households lived statistically 2.35 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.9 percent white, 0.5 percent African American and 0.3 per cent from other ethnic groups; 0.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
21.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.9 percent were 65 years or older. 48.9 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 43,281. The per capita income was $ 21,160. 16.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Boscobel
In the area of Town of Boscobel located next to stray no further colonization settlements.