Hillsboro (Wisconsin)
Vernon County
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Hillsboro is a city ( with a status of "City" ) in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Hillsboro had 1417 inhabitants.
Many ancestors of the inhabitants of Hillsboro were immigrants from Bohemia, which is why the citizens like to refer to their city as the Czech Capital of Wisconsin.
Geography
Hillsboro is located in southwest Wisconsin on the western arm of 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 located 90 km west.
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 are 43 ° 39'08 Hillsboro ' north latitude and 90 ° 20'38 "west longitude. The city covers an area of 3.65 km ².
Neighboring towns of Hillsboro Kendall (20,5 km to the north ), Elroy (14,7 km northeast), Union Center ( 8.4 km east-northeast ), Wonewoc (11,4 km east), Cazenovia (26,4 km to the southeast ), Yuba (18 km southwest) and Dilly (8.8 miles west).
The nearest big cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (253 km northeast), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee (252 km east-southeast ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (127 km southeast), Rockford, Illinois (235 km south-southeast ), the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa ( 269 km south ), Cedar Rapids, Iowa (272 km south-southwest ), Rochester, Minnesota (208 km west-northwest ) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (325 km north-west ).
History
The name Hillsboro goes back to the Hill family, the first to colonize White in 1850 the area. Other - mainly German and Czech - immigrants followed a little later. Therefore, even today the festival Cesky Den is held every year.
Other immigrant groups were African American after the Civil War as well as some Amish, operated agriculture in and around Hillsboro.
Traffic
In Hillsboro, 80 and 82 meet the Wisconsin Highway 33, together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In Hillsboro is the western terminus of the North Hillsboro State Trail, one running on the route of a former railway line Rail Trail for walkers and cyclists. In the winter the trail can be traveled with snowmobiles.
In the northwest of the urban area is the Joshua Sanford Field a small airfield. The next airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( 95.8 km WNW ), the Dubuque Regional Airport in Dubuque, Iowa (168 km south) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (137 km southeast).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Hillsboro 1417 people in 587 households. The population density was 388.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 587 households lived statistically 2.41 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.0 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.3 percent Asian and 0.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
26.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.9 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 35,958. The per capita income was $ 20,085. 18.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Marc Andrew Mitscher (1887-1947), naval aviator and Admiral, born in Hillsboro