Browntown (Wisconsin)
Green County
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Brownstown is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Green County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Brownstown had 280 inhabitants.
Geography
Brownstown is located in south central Wisconsin, 8.8 km north of the border with Illinois. The town lies on the Pecatonica River, heard about the Rock River to the basin of the Mississippi. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois is 76.3 kilometers west.
The geographical coordinates of 42 ° 34'40 Brownstown are " north latitude and 89 ° 47'39 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 2.75 km ².
The nearby towns of Brownstown are Monroe (15 km east), Orangeville, Illinois (23,1 km southeast), Winslow, Illinois (10,7 km to the south), Warren, Illinois (24,7 km southwest), South Wayne (8, 2 km west ) and Woodford (11,5 km to the northwest ).
The nearest big cities are the capital of Wisconsin Madison ( 78.4 km to the northeast ), Milwaukee (190 km east-northeast ), Chicago, Illinois (228 km southeast), Rockford, Illinois ( 84.6 km SSE ) and the Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois ( 180 km south-west ).
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 11 runs along the northern Ortsrandes of Brownstown. The branching of this south County Highway M leads as the main road through the town center. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
By Brownstown Cheese Country Trail, one running on the route of a former railway line Rail Trail runs for walkers and cyclists. In the winter the trail can be traveled with snowmobiles.
The nearest airports are the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (81 km northeast) and the Chicago Rockford International Airport ( 94.4 km southeast).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Brownstown 280 people in 109 households. The population density was 101.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 109 households lived statistically 2.57 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 95.7 percent white, 0.7 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American and 1.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
27.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 11.8 percent were 65 years or older. 50.4 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 51,667. The per capita income was $ 22,854. 6.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.