Brigham (Wisconsin)
Iowa County
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The Town of Brigham is one of 14 Towns in Iowa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Brigham 1034 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.
The area of the Town of Brigham is part of the Madison Metropolitan Region.
Geography
The Town of Brigham is located in southwestern Wisconsin, on the south bank of the Wisconsin River, a left tributary of the Mississippi. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota is located approximately 165 km north-west; to Illinois is approximately 65 km in the south.
The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Brigham are 42 ° 59'41 " north latitude and 89 ° 53'45 " west longitude. It covers an area of 166 km ². The Town of Brigham completely surrounds the Village of Barneveld, without that belongs to the Town.
The Town of Brigham lies to the east of the Iowa County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:
Traffic
By Town performs in east-west direction on a section of track shared the U.S. Highways 18 and 151 also run nor the County Highway F, K, T, and H through the territory of the Town of Brigham. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways.
With the Iowa County Airport is located about 40 km west-southwest of a small airfield. The next airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa ( about 115 km southwest), the Chicago Rockford International Airport ( around 140 km south-east ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital ( 65 km east-northeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Brigham 1034 people in 390 households. The population density was 6.2 people per square kilometer. In the 390 households lived statistically 2.65 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.6 percent white, 0.2 percent African Americans, 0.1 percent (one person) Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and 0.8 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
23.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 11.7 percent were 65 years or older. 47.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 79,167. The per capita income was $ 33,405. 9.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Brigham
In addition to scattered settlements there are no other settlements in the Town of Brigham.