Freeman, Wisconsin
Crawford County
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The Town of Freeman is one of eleven Towns in Crawford County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Freeman 739 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.
Geography
The Town of Freeman is located in southwestern Wisconsin, on the east bank of the Iowa border to forming Mississippi. The intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota is located 20 km north.
The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Freeman are 43 ° 21'41 " north latitude and 91 ° 03'59 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 201.2 km ², spread over 176.6 km ² land and 24.6 km ² water surface. The independent municipality Ferryville is completely surrounded by the Town without belonging to it. In the northwest of the Town situated mostly in neighboring Vernon County separate municipality De Soto borders.
The Town of Freeman is located in the extreme northwest of Crawford County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns and townships:
Traffic
Through the Town of Freeman of the Wisconsin State Highway 35, which forms the Wisconsin section of the Great River Road runs here. A few kilometers south of De Soto leads the Wisconsin State Highway 82 on the Black Hawk Bridge on the opposite bank of the Mississippi in Iowa. The Wisconsin State Highway 171 runs along the southern border. In addition, still lead the County Highways B and V through the territory of the Town of Freeman. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways.
Along the Mississippi runs for freight traffic, a railroad line of the BNSF Railway.
The Prairie du Chien Municipal Airport is located approximately 40 south a small airfield. The next airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa ( about 140 km south), the La Crosse Regional Airport (70 km north ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital city ( some 170 km to the east ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Freeman 739 people in 312 households. The population density was 4.2 people per square kilometer. In the 312 households lived statistically 2.2 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 98.3 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.1 percent (one person) and Asians 0.3 percent Polynesians; 0.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
16.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 23.6 percent were 65 years or older. 47.4 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 38,250. The per capita income was $ 25,043. 7.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Freeman
In addition to scattered settlements exist with Reed still unincorporated settlement on the territory of the Town of Freeman.