Coon Valley, Wisconsin

Vernon County

55-16900

Coon Valley is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Coon Valley had 765 inhabitants.

Geography

Coon Valley is located in southwest Wisconsin on Coon Creek, the west-southwest of the town in the Mississippi River flows 21.7 kilometers. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin is located 37.4 km south west.

Coon Valley is located in the Driftless Area mentioned glacially shaped region that stretches across the southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and extreme northwestern Illinois. In the last ice age, the Wisconsin Glaciation so-called, the region remained free of ice, so that the river valleys were cut deep into the plateau during this time.

The geographic coordinates of Coon Valley are 43 ° 42'08 " north latitude and 91 ° 00'48 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 2.82 km ². The town is completely surrounded by the Town of Coon, without belonging to it.

Neighboring towns of Coon Valley are Cashton (22,4 km east-northeast ), Westby (15,4 km east-southeast ), Viroqua (24,4 km to the southeast ), Chase Castle (9.6 km to the southwest ), Stoddard at the mouth of Coon Creek in the Mississippi (21,7 km west-southwest ) and Shelby (15,4 km northwest ).

The nearest big cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan ( 325 km east-northeast ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee ( 314 km east-southeast ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (174 km southeast), Rockford, Illinois (299 km south-east ), the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa ( 281 km south ), Cedar Rapids, Iowa (261 km south-southwest ), Rochester, Minnesota (147 km west-northwest ) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (261 km north-west ).

Traffic

The running on a section of track shared U.S. highways 14 and 61 run in east-west direction as the main road through Coon Valley. At the western edge crosses offset the Wisconsin State Highway 162 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( 36.7 km NNW ), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota (146 km west-northwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (186 km southeast).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Coon Valley 765 people in 324 households. The population density was 271.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 324 households lived statistically 2.32 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 98.3 percent White, 0.1 percent (one person) Black or African American, 0.7 percent Asian and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

22.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 55.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 21.4 percent were 65 years or older. 47.5 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 54,500. The per capita income was $ 24,571. 9.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.