East Troy (Wisconsin)
Walworth County
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East Troy is a village ( with a status of "Village" ) in Walworth County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, East Troy had 4281 inhabitants.
Geography
East Troy is located in southeastern Wisconsin on either side of Honey Creek, who heard about the Fox and the Illinois River to the basin of the Mississippi.
The geographical coordinates of 42 ° 47'07 East Troy are ' north latitude and 88 ° 24'18 "west longitude. The city covers an area of 11.68 km ². The town of East Troy is surrounded to the north, east and south of the Town of East Troy and in the west to a small part of the Town of Troy, but does not belong to it.
Neighboring towns of East Troy are Potter Lake (7.5 km north-east ), Mukwonago (11,5 km in the same direction), Waterford (17 km east), Burlington ( 22 km southeast ), Spring Prairie (10,5 km to the south ), Elkhorn (18 km southwest), La Grange ( 17.6 km to the west ) and Eagle (16 km north-northwest ).
The nearest large towns are Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee (54 km northeast), Chicago, Illinois (143 km south-southeast ), Rockford, Illinois ( 97.3 km southwest ) and Wisconsin's capital Madison (99 km west-northwest ).
Attractions
The community is known primarily for the Alpine Valley Ski Area, Alpine Valley Music Theatre, regularly hosts major concerts and the East Troy Electric Railroad Museum. After a joint concert with Eric Clapton at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, died on 26 August 1990, the guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan in a helicopter crash in East Troy.
Traffic
Interstate 43 leads in northeast-southwest direction past on their way from Milwaukee to Rockford at the center of East Troy. There, take the Wisconsin State Routes 20 and 120 together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
East Troy is a south-westerly end of a railway line for freight traffic of the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR), which leads to Mukwonago.
With the East Troy Municipal Airport is located in the northeast of the city limits, a small airfield. The next airports are the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (102 km west-northwest ), the General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee ( 51.9 kilometers north-east ), the Chicago O'Hare International Airport (119 km south-southeast ) and the Chicago Rockford International Airport (106 km southwest).
Economy
The motorcycle manufacturer Buell was based in East Troy, until the owner, the company Harley -Davidson ceased production in 2009.
Education
In East Troy East Troy High, the School is located.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in East Troy 4281 people in 1737 households. The population density was 366.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 1737 households lived statistically 2.44 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 95.9 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.6 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 1.1 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 4.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
27 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12 percent were 65 years or older. 50.9 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 60,644. The per capita income was $ 26,767. 16.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Mark Neumann ( * 1954) - Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1995-1999) - born in East Troy and raised
- John F. Potter (1817-1899) - Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1857-1863) - lived long in East Troy and is buried here
- Clifford E. Randall (1876-1934) - Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1919-1921) - attended school in East Troy