Gratiot (town), Wisconsin

Lafayette County

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The Town of Gratiot is one of the 18 Towns in Lafayette County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Gratiot 550 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 Gratiot is located in southwest Wisconsin, about 55 km east of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Iowa. In the south, bordering the Town of Illinois. The Town is in the northeast of the Pecatonica River durchflossem, a tributary of the opening into the Mississippi Rock River.

In the northern center of the Town of Gratiot is an independent municipality Gratiot, which is completely surrounded by the Town without belonging to it.

The coordinates of the geographical center of the Town of Gratiot 42 ° 33'48 " north latitude and 90 ° 2'3" west longitude. It extends over an area of ​​140.7 km ².

The Town of Gratiot is located south of Lafayette County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns and townships:

Traffic

Through the Town of Gratiot runs in east-west direction of the Wisconsin State Highway 11 and north-south direction of the Wisconsin State Highway 78 Both cross in the village of Gratiot. All other roads are minor roads or partly unpaved roadways.

The nearest airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa (70 km west-southwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital city ( some 100 km north-east ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Gratiot 550 people in 215 households. The population density was 3.9 people per square kilometer. In the 215 households lived statistically 2.53 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 99.1 percent white and 0.5 percent of Asians; 0.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

22.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 63.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.5 percent were 65 years or older. 46.4 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 48,500. The per capita income was $ 22.427. 10.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Villages in the Town of Gratiot

In the area of ​​the Town of Gratiot is next scattered settlement nor the unincorporated settlement Riverside.

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