Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Chippewa County

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Chippewa Falls is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Chippewa Falls had 13,661 inhabitants, making it the largest city in Chippewa County.

Chippewa Falls is one of the two core cities in the metropolitan region of Eau Claire- Chippewa Falls metropolitan area.

Name

The town lies on the River Chippewa River. The river's name is derived from the tribe of the Ojibwa, the resident Indians from. The first settlers gave the name " Ojibwa " as " Chippewa " again.

Geography

Chippewa Falls is located in western Wisconsin on both sides of the Chippewa River. This flows 95 km south-west of the border with Minnesota Mississippi forming. The geographic coordinates of Chippewa Falls are 44 ° 56 'north latitude and 91 ° 23 ' west longitude. The city covers an area of 29.5 km ² at an altitude of 256 meters above the sea level.

Towns nearby are Eagle Point (11,7 km to the north), Jim Falls (19 km northeast), Lake Wissota (8.5 km east), Cadott (22,3 km in the same direction), Fall Creek (28,9 km southeast), Altoona ( 19.3 km to the south) and Lake Hallie ( on the southern city limits ).

The nearest major cities are Green Bay (293 km east), Wisconsin's capital Madison (307 km south-east ), La Crosse (155 km south), Eau Claire (19,5 km southwest), Rochester, Minnesota (168 km in the same direction ), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (157 miles west) and Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (235 km north).

Traffic

By Chippewa Falls Wisconsin Highways 124 and lead 178 U.S. Highway 53 crosses the south-western outskirts of the Wisconsin Highway 124

The city is connected to the rail network belonging to the Canadian National Railway Wisconsin Central.

The Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire is located eight kilometers southwest of the city.

History

Around the year 1700 the French explorer Pierre -Charles Le Sueur discovered the Chippewa source near the river.

Chippewa Falls was at the beginning of a wood processing center, which became a railroad town, although the main road of the railway network of the 1870s through Eau Claire, about 15 km south went. 1870 built the West Wisconsin Railway route from Saint Paul, Minnesota to Milwaukee through the territory of Eau Claire. Then, the Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls Railway put on a rail line from Eau Claire to Chippewa Falls.

The politician Thaddeus C. Pound founded in 1887 the " Chippewa Springs Health Club". Pound was also the company that began in the spring water for sale in bottles bottling.

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Chippewa Falls 13,661 people in 5896 households. The population density was 486.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 5896 households lived statistically 2.18 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 95.1 percent white, 1.7 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.9 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

22.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.4 percent were 65 years or older. 49.3 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 38,919. The per capita income was $ 23,885. 14.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Persons that are associated with the city

• Seymour Cray (1925-1996), the first successful architect for supercomputers, founder of Cray Research,
• Gus Dorais (1891-1954), quarterback for the University of Notre Dame, head coach of the Detroit Lions,
• Judy Henske ( b. 1936 ), singer and songwriter,
• Howard Luedtke, blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and band member of the " Blue Max "
• Thaddeus C. Pound (1833-1914), Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, Delegate for Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives, and president of the railway company " Chippewa Falls and Western Railway "
• Eddy Waller (1889-1977), actor in over 250 films,
• Alexander Wiley (1884-1967), 1939-1963 U.S. Senator for the State of Wisconsin.