Butternut (Wisconsin)

Ashland County

55-11525

Butternut is a village ( with a status of "Village" ) in Ashland County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Butternut had 375 inhabitants.

Geography

Butternut is located in northern Wisconsin, about 50 km south of Lake Superior, the largest of the five Great Lakes. The geographical coordinates of 46 ° 00'50 Butternut ' north latitude and 90 ° 29'41 "west longitude. The city covers an area of 4.17 km ².

Towns nearby are Park Falls Butternut (11,4 km southwest) and Glidden ( 16.4 km NNW ).

The nearest major cities are Green Bay (331 km south-east ), Eau Claire (222 km southwest), Minnesota's largest city Minneapolis ( 317 km west-southwest ), Duluth, Minnesota (188 km north-west ) and Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada ( 492 km north-northeast ).

The border with Canada is located approximately 400 km north.

Traffic

The State Trunk Highway 13 leads in a north-south direction as the main road through Butternut. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or within city roads.

By Butternut runs a railway line of the former Wisconsin Central, now part of the Canadian National Railway.

The Park Falls Municipal Airport is located 13.5 km south east a small airfield. The nearest airports are the Central Wisconsin Airport in Wausau (200 km south-southeast ), and the Duluth International Airport (197 km north-west ) and the greater Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 349 km southwest ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Butternut 375 people in 180 households. The population density was 89.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 180 households lived statistically 2.08 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 94.1 percent white and 2.7 percent of Native Americans; 0.3 percent (one person) from other ethnic groups. 2.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

22.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.8 percent were 65 years or older. 49.9 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 32,708. The per capita income was $ 21,263. 17.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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