Highland, Iowa County, Wisconsin
Iowa County
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The Town of Highland is one of 14 Towns in Iowa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Highland 750 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 area of the Town of Highland is part of the Madison Metropolitan Region.
Geography
The Town of Highland is located in southwest Wisconsin. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota is located approximately 110 km north-west; to Illinois is approximately 65 km in the south.
The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Highland are 43 ° 03'59 " north latitude and 90 ° 20'38 " west longitude. It covers an area of 168 km ². The Town of Highland completely surrounds the Village of Highland, listened without that the Town.
The Town of Highland is in the northwest of the Iowa County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 80 runs north -south through the Town. In addition, through the territory of the Town of Highland nor the County Highway I, P, and Q. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways.
With the Iowa County Airport is located approximately 25 km south-east a small airfield. The next airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa ( about 85 km south-west ), the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital city (around 105 km east-northeast ) and the Chicago Rockford International Airport ( around 180 km south-east ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Highland 750 people in 287 households. The population density was 4.5 people per square kilometer. In the 287 households lived statistically 2.6 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 98.0 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.5 percent Asian and 0.7 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
26.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.5 percent were 65 years or older. 47.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 61,776. The per capita income was $ 25,998. 6.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Highland
In addition to scattered settlements there is no other settlement in the Town of Highland.