Coon, Wisconsin
Vernon County
55-16875
The Town of Coon is one of 21 Towns in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Coon 728 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 Coon is located in southwest Wisconsin. The lying on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota is located 50 km south-west. The Coon Creek, a left tributary of the Mississippi River, which flows through the northwestern part of the Town.
The Town of Coon lies 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 geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Coon are 43 ° 40'51 " north latitude and 90 ° 58'18 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 90.3 km ². In the north- west of the Town of Coon encloses the independent municipality Coon Valley, without these belongs to the Town.
The Town of Coon is located in the north of Vernon County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:
Traffic
On a section of track shared the U.S. highways 14 and 61 extend in a northwest-southeast direction through the Town of Coon. In the north- west of the Town of Wisconsin State Highway 162 branches off to the north. In addition, run nor the County Highways B, GG, KK and P by the Town. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( around 40 km north-west ), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota ( about 150 km west-northwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Wisconsin's capital, Madison ( 180 km east-southeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Coon 728 people in 285 households. The population density was 8.1 people per square kilometer. In the 285 households lived statistically 2.55 per person.
Ethnically, the population consisted with three exceptions only from whites.
23.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.0 percent were 65 years or older. 47.7 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 42,500. The per capita income was $ 26,406. 10.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Coon
In addition to scattered settlements there are no other settlements in the Town of Coon.