Jamestown (Wisconsin)
Grant County
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The Town of Jamestown is one of 33 Towns in Grant County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Jamestown 2076 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 Jamestown is located in southwest Wisconsin at the intersection of three states of Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa. Here, the Mississippi forms the border of Wisconsin and Illinois to Iowa.
The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Jamestown are 42 ° 33'46 " north latitude and 90 ° 36'05 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 84.7 km ², spread to 77.9 km ² land and 6.8 km ² water surface.
The Town of Jamestown is located in the south of the Grant County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns and townships:
Traffic
The four-lane U.S. Highways 61 and 151 extend in a north-south direction on a section of track shared and turn west to the south of the Town of Jamestown and leave via the Dubuque - Wisconsin Bridge over the Mississippi River in the direction of Iowa. The highway and branching off to the south Wisconsin State Highway 35 form the southern part of the Wisconsin portion of the Great River Road. Through the south of the Town also runs the Wisconsin State Highway 11 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Along the Mississippi runs a railroad line of the BNSF Railway.
With the Dubuque Regional Airport is located in the southwest of the town of Dubuque song over the Iowa third largest after the passengers the airport.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Jamestown in 2076 people in 835 households. The population density was 26.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 835 households lived statistically 2.49 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 99.1 percent White, 0.4 percent Asians and 00000 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
22.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.5 percent were 65 years or older. 49.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 46,964. The per capita income was $ 24,791. 5.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Jamestown
In addition to scattered settlement there are the following unincorporated communities:
Census-designated places (CDP )
- Kiel
- Sandy Hook
Other Unincorporated communities
- Fair Play
- Louisburg
- Rutledge