Genoa (Wisconsin)
Vernon County
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Genoa is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Genoa had 253 inhabitants.
Geography
Genoa is located in southwest Wisconsin on the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Minnesota here. The intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin is downstream 8.9 km.
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 are 43 ° 34'36 Genoa " north latitude and 91 ° 13'27 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 0.8 km ². The place is completely enclosed on the land side of the Town of Genoa, without belonging to it.
Neighboring towns of Genoa are Stoddard ( 10.8 km upstream in the north), La Crosse (28,4 km in the same direction), Chase Castle (18,7 km northeast), De Soto (18 km downstream in a southerly direction and in Lansing Iowa ( in the same direction after crossing the Mississippi).
The nearest big cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan ( 348 km east-northeast ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee ( 312 km east-southeast ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (182 km southeast), Rockford, Illinois ( 305 km in the same direction), the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa (291 km south), Cedar Rapids, Iowa (226 km south-southwest ), Rochester, Minnesota (144 km west-northwest ) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (266 km north-west ).
Traffic
In Genoa is with Lock and Dam No. 8 is one of 29 dams that make the upper Mississippi to one of the main inland waterways of the country.
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. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
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 (38,7 km to the north), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota (146 km west-northwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (191 km east-southeast ).
Economy
On the southern outskirts of Genoa is the 1987 decommissioned nuclear power station La Crosse. The 1963-1968 built boiling water reactor is being dismantled.
Next to it is a run of the Dairyland Power Cooperative coal power plant with 379 megawatts of installed capacity.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Genoa 253 people in 110 households. The population density was 316.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 110 households lived statistically 2.3 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 97.2 percent White, 1.6 percent Native American and 0.4 percent (one person) Asians; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races.
23.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 22.5 percent were 65 years or older. 48.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 50,909. The per capita income was $ 23,427. 6.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.