Dodgeville (town), Wisconsin
Iowa County
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The Town of Dodgeville is one of 14 Towns in Iowa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Dodgeville 1708 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.
The area of the Town of Dodgeville is part of the Madison Metropolitan Region.
Geography
The Town of Dodgeville is located in southwest Wisconsin. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota is located approximately 140 km north-west; to Illinois it is 60 km to the south.
The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Dodgeville are 43 ° 00'42 " north latitude and 90 ° 07'24 " west longitude. It extends spread over an area of 233.8 km ², which is 232.7 km ² land and 1.1 km ² water surface. The Town of Dodgeville completely surrounds the City of Dodgeville, without that belongs to the Town.
The Town of Dodgeville is located in the center of the Iowa County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:
Traffic
By Town performs in west-east direction of the U.S. Highway 18 U.S. Highway 151 runs to the east of the Town on a congruent portion to the U.S. 18, from the U.S. 151 at the height of the city Dodgeville branches off to the south. In addition, still lead the Wisconsin State Highways 23, 130 and 191 as well as the County Highways B, M, Q, Y and Z through the territory of the Town of Dodgeville. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways.
With the Iowa County Airport is located approximately 15 km south-west a small airfield. The next airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa ( about 90 km south-west ), the La Crosse Regional Airport ( about 170 km north-west ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital ( 80 km east-northeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Dodgeville 1708 people in 645 households. The population density was 7.3 people per square kilometer. In the 645 households lived statistically 2.65 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.4 percent white, 0.3 percent African Americans, 0.1 percent ( two people) Native American, 1.2 percent Asian and 0.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.7 percent were 65 years or older. 49.5 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 74,044. The per capita income was $ 33,165. 4.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Dodgeville
In addition to scattered settlements exist in the Town of Dodgeville nor the unincorporated settlement of Pleasant Ridge.