Fall Creek (Wisconsin)
Eau Claire County
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Fall Creek is a municipality ( with the status of Village ) in Eau Claire County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In the census of 2010 Fall Creek had 1315 inhabitants.
Geography
Fall Creek is located in the central northwestern Wisconsin, near the Eau Claire River, which heard about the Chippewa River to the basin of the Mississippi.
The geographical coordinates of 44 ° 45'49 Fall Creek are " north latitude and 91 ° 16'38 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 5.41 km ² and is completely surrounded by the Town of Lincoln, without belonging to it.
Neighboring towns of Fall Creek Lake Wissota are (27 km north), Augusta ( 16.6 km southeast), Osseo (26,8 km to the south) and Eau Claire (19,8 km to the west ).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (300 km east), Wisconsin's capital Madison (276 km south-east ), La Crosse (137 km south-southwest ), Rochester, Minnesota (161 km southwest) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (169 km west ).
Traffic
U.S. Highway 12 runs in east-west direction as the main road through Fall Creek. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In parallel to U.S. 12, a railroad line of the Union Pacific Railroad runs through the municipal area of Fall Creek.
The nearest airport is Chippewa Valley Regional Airport ( 24.3 km WNW ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Fall Creek 1315 people in 517 households. The population density was 243.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 517 households lived statistically 2.44 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.9 percent White, 0.1 percent (one person) Black or African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
26.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.2 percent were 65 years or older. 54.4 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 50,625. The per capita income was $ 22,672. 9.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.