Cassville (Wisconsin)

Grant County

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Cassville is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Grant County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Cassville had 947 inhabitants.

History

In 1827 the first settlement was founded by Lewis Cass, the governor of the then Michigan Territory, named. After formation of the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 Cassville was on the short list of possible major cities of the territory, which was then extended up the Missouri River from Lake Michigan. But when Madison the capital of the territory was raised, a number of land speculators in Cassville were insolvent.

Then, when Nelson Dewey, who came to Cassville in 1836 and later became the first governor of Wisconsin was, he bought a large part of the area on the settlement in the hope that evolve Cassville to a big city and thus bring the local land large profit would. So the further colonization was continued. Even Dewey acquired with Stonefield an estate in the vicinity of the town, which now belongs to the Wisconsin State Historic Sites. Dewey could not keep this long because it was destroyed by a fire in 1873 and financial failures forced him shortly afterwards, his possessions to sell.

Cassville was not the metropolis that Dewey envisioned. Today the city is known for the Nelson Dewey State Park and the ferry to Iowa.

Economy

In Cassville there with the Nelson Dewey Generating Station and the EJ Stoneman Generating Station operated two coal-fired power plants.

Geography

Cassville is located at 42 ° 44'3 " north latitude and 90 ° 57'53 " west longitude.

The site extends over 2.8 km ², which consist almost exclusively of land area.

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Cassville 947 people in 428 households. The population density was 338.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 428 households lived statistically 2.21 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 98.6 percent White, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

20.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 55.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 23.7 percent were 65 years or older. 51.0 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 39,167. The per capita income was $ 22,062. 13.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.