Cross Plains (Wisconsin)
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Cross Plains is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Dane County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Cross Plains had 3538 inhabitants.
Cross Plains is part of the metropolitan area of Madison.
Geography
Cross Plains is located in south central Wisconsin, in the northwest suburban area of the capital, Madison. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois is located 127 km south-west.
The geographic coordinates of Cross Plains 43 ° 06'52 " north latitude and 89 ° 39'20 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 4.56 km ². The place is of the Towns Berry ( in the north) and Cross Plains (south) surrounded, without belonging to one of these Towns.
The center of Madison is located 22.7 km east-southeast. Other neighboring towns are Waunakee (21,9 km northeast), Middleton (13.3 km to the east ), Verona (22,3 km southeast), Mount Horeb ( 17.4 km SSW ), Black Earth ( 7.9 km west-northwest ) and Sauk City ( 23.5 km NNW ).
The nearest big cities are Green Bay (239 km northeast), Milwaukee (152 km east), Chicago (257 km southeast) and Rockford (129 km south-southeast ).
Traffic
The U.S. Highway 14 leads as the main road through the center of Cross Plains. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In parallel to U.S. 14 passes through Cross Plains a railroad line of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad, a regional (Class II ) Freight transportation company.
The nearest airport is Dane County Regional Airport in Madison ( 30.9 km to the east).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Cross Plains 3538 people in 1386 households. The population density was 775.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 1386 households lived statistically 2.55 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.1 percent white, 0.8 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.0 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.
24.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 66.1 percent were between 18 and 64, and 9.2 percent were 65 years or older. 50.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 63,316. The per capita income was $ 28,557. 6.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.