Grand Chute, Wisconsin
Outagamie County
55-30075
The Town of Grand Chute is one of 20 Towns in Outagamie County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Grand Chute 20,919 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.
The Town of Grand Chute is located in the Fox Cities -called metropolitan area.
In the Town of playing in the Midwest League Wisconsin Timber Rattlers baseball club and the stadium of the team, the Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium is situated, is located on the territory of the Town of Grand Chute.
Geography
The Town of Grand Chute is located in eastern Wisconsin, in the western and north- western suburbs, the city of Appleton. In the south of the Town reaches, which flows about 50 km north-east in the Green Bay of Lake Michigan in the Fox River.
The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Grand Chute are 44 ° 16'54 " north latitude and 88 ° 26'17 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 64.6 km ².
The Town of Grand Chute is located south of Outagamie County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns and municipalities:
Traffic
The four-lane U.S. Highway 41, which forms the north-western ring road of Appleton; passes through the center of the Town. The Wisconsin State Highways 15, 96 and 125 run in east-west direction across the territory of the Town of Grand Chute, during the Wisconsin State Highway 47 leads in a north-south direction through the Northeast. In addition, still lead the County Highways A, E, JJ by the Town, while the County Highway BB forms the southern boundary. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Through the territory of the Town of Grand Chute leads in northwest-southeast direction for freight railway line of the Canadian National Railway ( CN).
The next airports are the Outagamie County Regional Airport ( immediately behind the western boundary of the Town) and Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay ( about 40 km north-east ).
Villages in the Town of Grand Chute
Within the Town there are no towns, but has changed the once rural character of the entire Town to a suburban residential area in the course of development of the city of Appleton.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Grand Chute 20,919 people in 9378 households. The population density was 324.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 9378 households lived statistically 2.21 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 89.3 percent white, 1.4 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 4.5 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 2.5 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 4.9 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
20.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 65.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.4 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 52,813. The per capita income was $ 32,557. 8.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) - Republican Senator (1947-1957) - born and raised in the Town of Grand Chute
- George J. Schneider (1877-1939) - Republican and later progressive member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1923-1933, 1935-1939) - born and raised in the Town of Grand Chute