Gordon, Douglas County, Wisconsin

Douglas County

55-29925

The Town of Gordon is one of 16 Towns in Douglas County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Gordon 636 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

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of ​​407.7 km2 are of which 393.0 km2 and 14.7 km2 ( ie 6.6 % of the total ) are water.

Traffic

The U.S. Highway 53 runs through the Town.

History

The Town was for " Antoine Guerdon ", a fur trader from La Pointe, Wisconsin, named.

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Gordon 636 people in 309 households. The population density was 1.6 people per square kilometer. In the 309 households lived statistically 2.06 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 96.9 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.8 percent Native American and 0.3 percent Asian; 1.9 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.

16 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 24.7 percent were 65 years or older. 48.7 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 45,395. The per capita income was $ 18,065. 8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Villages in the Town of Gordon

In addition to scattered settlements exist in the Town of Gordon Gordon with an unincorporated settlement.