Genoa (town), Wisconsin
Vernon County
55-28650
The Town of Genoa is one of 21 Towns in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Genoa 789 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 Genoa is located in southwest Wisconsin on the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Minnesota and Iowa.
The Town of Genoa 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 the center of the Town of Genoa are 43 ° 32'55 " north latitude and 91 ° 10'06 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 94.1 km ² which 90.6 km ² land and 3.5 km ² water surface spread. The independent municipality Genoa, on whose territory the 1987 decommissioned nuclear power station La Crosse is located, is surrounded by the Town of Genoa, without belonging to the parish of the Town.
The Town of Genoa is located in the west of Vernon County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns and townships:
Traffic
The running along the Mississippi Wisconsin State Highway 35 here is the Wisconsin section of the Great River Road. The current coming from the east Wisconsin State Highway 56 reaches the confluence with the WIS 35 in Genoa its western terminus. In addition, run nor the County Highway O and K by the Town. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways.
Along the Mississippi runs for freight railway line of the BNSF Railway, the second largest railway company in the country.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( 40 km north ), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota ( about 150 km west-northwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Wisconsin's capital, Madison (about 190 km east-southeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Genoa 789 people in 307 households. The population density was 8.7 people per square kilometer. In the 307 households lived statistically 2.57 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.6 percent White, 0.1 percent (one person) Black or African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
26.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.9 percent were 65 years or older. 47.7 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 51,250. The per capita income was $ 23,580. 7.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Genoa
In addition to scattered settlements there are no other settlements in the Town of Genoa.