Hillsboro (town), Wisconsin

Vernon County

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The Town of Hillsboro is one of 21 Towns in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Hillsboro had 807 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 Hillsboro is located in southwestern Wisconsin and is drained by the Baraboo River, a tributary of the opening into the Mississippi River Wisconsin. The located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin is just 95 km to the west.

The Town of Hillsboro 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 Hillsboro are 43 ° 41'23 " north latitude and 90 ° 21'59 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 92.3 km ². The Town of Hillsboro completely surrounds the city of Hillsboro without them belonging to the Town.

The Town of Hillsboro is located in the extreme northeast of Vernon County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:

Traffic

The Wisconsin Highways 33 and 82 meet together in the south of the Town. The Wisconsin State Highway 33 leads in west-east direction through the Town of Hillsboro. In addition, still lead the County Highways F and WW through the field of Town. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

Thanks to the southeast of the Town one running on the route of a former railway line Rail Trail leads the Hillsboro State Trail for walkers and cyclists. In the winter the trail can be traveled with snowmobiles.

The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( about 95 km west-northwest ), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota ( some 205 km to the west ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Wisconsin's capital, Madison ( about 130 km south-east ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Hillsboro 807 people in 290 households. The population density was 8.7 people per square kilometer. In the 290 households lived statistically 2.76 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.5 percent White, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

29.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.4 percent were 65 years or older. 49.1 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 52,895. The per capita income was $ 24,733. 11.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Villages in the Town of Hillsboro

In addition to scattered settlements exist in the Town of Hillsboro with Tripp Ville still unincorporated settlement.