De Soto (Wisconsin)
Vernon County Crawford County
55-19850
De Soto is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Vernon County and to a lesser extent in Crawford County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 De Soto had 287 inhabitants.
Geography
De Soto is located in southwest Wisconsin on the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Iowa. The intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin is 9 km upstream in the north.
De Soto 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 geographical coordinates of De Soto are 43 ° 25'23 " north latitude and 91 ° 11'56 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 3.47 km ².
Neighboring towns of De Soto are Genoa (18 km north upriver ), Ferryville (11,8 km southeast downstream ) and Lansing, Iowa (9 km to the south on the opposite bank of the Mississippi ).
The nearest big cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan ( 365 km east-northeast ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee (311 km east), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (181 km east-southeast ), Rockford, Illinois (286 km southeast), the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa ( 267 km south ), Cedar Rapids, Iowa (212 km south-southwest ), Rochester, Minnesota (166 km north-west ) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (280 km in the same direction).
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 35, which forms the Wisconsin section of the Great River Road, leads as the main road through De Soto &nbsap;. In the center of the village opens a by -east of the Wisconsin State Highway 82. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Along the Mississippi runs a railroad line of the BNSF Railway.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( 55.4 km to the north), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota (165 km north-west ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (190 km east-southeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in De Soto 287 people in 129 households. The population density was 82.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 129 households lived statistically 2.22 per person.
The racial passed the population with one exception only of whites.
23.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.7 percent were 65 years or older. 48.8 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 42,750. The per capita income was $ 25,736. 12.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.