Clayton, Crawford County, Wisconsin

Crawford County

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The Town of Clayton is one of eleven Towns in Crawford County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Clayton 958 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 Clayton is located in southwest Wisconsin. In the northeast, the Town is drained by the Kickapoo River, a right tributary of the opening into the Mississippi River Wisconsin. The intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota is located approximately 50 km west-northwest.

The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Clayton are 43 ° 22'10 " north latitude and 90 ° 44'44 " west longitude. It extends over an area of ​​179.3 km ². In the northwest, the independent municipality Soldiers Grove is completely surrounded by the Town without belonging to it. In the southwest of the Town autonomous communities Gays Mills and Bell Center adjacent to.

The Town of Clayton is located in the extreme north east of Crawford County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:

Traffic

By Town leads in a north-south direction of the U.S. Highway 61 to the Wisconsin State Highway 131 meets in Soldiers Grove. Through the south of the Town runs in east-west direction of the Wisconsin State Highway 171, which crosses the south-central U.S. 61. In addition, still lead the County Highways C, H and X through the territory of the Town of Clayton. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways.

The Prairie du Chien Municipal Airport is located about 60 south-west, a small airfield. The next airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa ( about 120 km south), the La Crosse Regional Airport (around 90 km north-west ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital ( 140 km east ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Clayton 958 people in 389 households. The population density was 5.3 people per square kilometer. In the 389 households lived statistically 2.46 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 98.5 percent White, 0.1 percent (one person) Black or African American, 0.1 percent Native American and 0.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

23.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.2 percent were 65 years or older. 49.9 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 42,604. The per capita income was $ 22,762. 14.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Villages in the Town of Clayton

In addition to scattered settlements still exist in the Town of Clayton following unincorporated settlements:

• Montgomeryville
• North Clayton
• Rolling Ground