Harmony, Vernon County, Wisconsin
Vernon County
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The Town of Harmony is one of 21 Towns in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Harmony 755 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 Harmony is located in southwest Wisconsin, about 20 km north-east of the Mississippi located at the intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
The Town of Harmony 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 Harmony are 43 ° 35'02 " north latitude and 91 ° 05'23 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 111.1 km ².
The Town of Harmony is located in the west of Vernon County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 56, in the east-west direction through the south of the Town of Harmony. Due to the north of the Town of County Highway O. runs All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( around 45 km north- north-west ), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota ( about 150 km west-northwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Wisconsin's capital, Madison ( 180 km east-southeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Harmony 755 people in 266 households. The population density was 6.8 people per square kilometer. In the 266 households lived statistically 2.84 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.1 percent White, 0.1 percent (one person) Black or African American, 0.1 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
28.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 11.3 percent were 65 years or older. 50.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 65,000. The per capita income was $ 24,907. 5.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Harmony
In addition to scattered settlements still exist in the Town of Harmony following unincorporated settlements:
- Newton
- Romance