Greenwood, Vernon County, Wisconsin
Vernon County
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The Town of Greenwood is one of 21 Towns in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Greenwood 847 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 Greenwood is located in southwest Wisconsin, about 90 km east of the Mississippi located at the intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
The Town of Greenwood 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 Greenwood are 43 ° 35'46 " north latitude and 90 ° 22'06 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 92.7 km ².
The Town of Greenwood is located in the east of Vernon County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 80 leads in a north-south direction through the Town of Greenwood. In addition, run nor the County Highways C, Q and V by the area of Town. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( about 100 km north-west ), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota ( 210 km west-northwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Wisconsin's capital, Madison (about 135 km east-southeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Greenwood 847 people in 228 households. The population density was 9.1 people per square kilometer. In the 228 households lived statistically 3.71 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.8 percent white and 0.8 percent of African Americans; 0.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
40.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 52.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 7.4 percent were 65 years or older. 48.4 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 40,000. The per capita income was $ 10,714. 45.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Greenwood
In addition to scattered settlements exist in the Town of Greenwood Greenwood still unincorporated settlement.