Cameron, Barron County, Wisconsin
Barron County
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Cameron is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Barron County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Cameron had 1783 inhabitants.
Geography
Cameron is in the northwest Wisconsin on the east bank of the Red Cedar River, a tributary of the opening into the Mississippi Chippewa River. The geographical coordinates of 45 ° 24'31 Cameron are " north latitude and 91 ° 44'39 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 6.5 km ².
Towns nearby Cameron are Rice Lake ( 11.9 km to the north), Weyerhaeuser (26,6 km east ), Chetek (13,9 km southeast), Dallas ( 21.5 km SSW ) and Barron (8.5 miles west).
The nearest major cities are Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (171 km north), Green Bay on Lake Michigan ( 364 km east-southeast ), Eau Claire ( 82.8 km to the south), Rochester, Minnesota (206 km south-southwest ) and Minnesota's largest city Minneapolis (154 km west-southwest ).
The border with Canada is located approximately 400 km north.
Traffic
The four-lane U.S. Highway 53 runs north -south direction along the southwestern city limits of Cameron. U.S. Highway 8 runs as the main road through the center of Cameron and crosses on the western edge of the U.S. 53 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or within city roads.
In Cameron, a leading north to south railway line of the Union Pacific Railroad crosses an axis extending in a west-east direction route of the former Wisconsin Central, now part of the Canadian National Railway.
With the Rice Lake Regional Airport is located on the northwest by the municipality of Cameron, a small regional airport. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (161 km southwest).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Cameron 1783 people in 744 households. The population density was 274.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 744 households lived statistically 2.4 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 97.0 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
26.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.1 percent were 65 years or older. 51.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 41,480. The per capita income was $ 21,697. 15.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.