Buena Vista, Richland County, Wisconsin

Richland County

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The Town of Buena Vista is one of 16 Towns in Richland County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Buena Vista 1869 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 Buena Vista is located in southwest Wisconsin, at the mouth of the Pine River in the Wisconsin River, a left tributary of the Mississippi. The border with Iowa is located approximately 80 km west. After Minnesota is 100 km north-north- westerly direction; to Illinois and it is 100 km to the south.

The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Buena Vista are 43 ° 15'14 " north latitude and 90 ° 15'59 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 108.8 km ², the 106.3 km ² land and 2.5 km ² water surface spread. In the southeast of the Town surrounds the independent municipality Lone Rock from the north, west and south.

The Town of Buena Vista is located in the southeast of Richland County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:

Traffic

By Town performs in northwest-southeast direction of the U.S. Highway 14 The Wisconsin State Highway 131 runs north -south through the eastern part of the Town of Buena Vista. In addition, still leads the County Highway B in east-west direction through the northern part of the Town. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways.

With the Richland Airport is located in the northwest of the Town, a small airfield. The next airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa (about 125 km south-southwest ), the La Crosse Regional Airport ( around 135 km north-west ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital ( 85 km east ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Buena Vista in 1869 people in 707 households. The population density was 17.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 707 households lived statistically 2.64 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.1 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and 0.9 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

25.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.5 percent were 65 years or older. 47.7 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 46,875. The per capita income was $ 19,669. 9.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Villages in the Town of Buena Vista

In addition to scattered settlements still exist in the Town of Buena Vista the following unincorporated communities:

• Gotham
• Sextonville