Cottage Grove (Wisconsin)
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Cottage Grove is a town ( with a status of "Village" ) in Dane County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Cottage Grove had 6192 inhabitants.
Cottage Grove is part of the metropolitan area of Madison.
Geography
Cottage Grove is located in south central Wisconsin, in the eastern suburban area of the capital, Madison. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois is located 163 km west-southwest.
The geographic coordinates of Cottage Grove are 43 ° 04'34 " north latitude and 89 ° 11'58 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 9.01 km ². The community is almost completely surrounded by the Town of Cottage Grove without belonging to it.
The center of Madison is located 19.3 km west. Neighboring towns of Cottage Grove are Sun Prairie (12,8 km to the north), Marshall (17,1 km northeast), Lake Mills (27,2 km to the east ), Deerfield ( 14.3 km east-southeast ), Cambridge (21,4 km southeast ), Stoughton (19 km south), McFarland ( 14.1 southwest ) and Monona (14 miles west).
The nearest to Madison other major cities are Green Bay (214 km northeast), Milwaukee (112 km east), Chicago (218 km southeast) and Rockford (103 km south).
Traffic
Interstate 94 runs through the north of Cottage Grove. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In Cottage Grove is the eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad branch line. From there, in the eastern extension of the Glacial Drumlin State Trail, a running on a former railroad line of the Chicago and North Western Railway Rail Trail for walkers and cyclists. In the winter the trail can be traveled with snowmobiles.
The nearest airport is Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (20 km north-northeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Cottage Grove 6192 people in 2210 households. The population density was 687.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 2210 households lived statistically 2.8 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 92.1 percent white, 2.5 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 2.2 percent Asian and 1.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
32.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 7.7 percent were 65 years or older. 51.0 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 76,463. The per capita income was $ 30,693. 3.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- William R. Taylor (1820-1909) - 1874-1876 twelfth Governor of Wisconsin - long lived in Cottage Grove, where he was active in local politics