Kickapoo (Wisconsin)

Vernon County

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The Town of Kickapoo is one of 21 Towns in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Kickapoo 626 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 Kickapoo is located in southwestern Wisconsin and is drained by the Kickapoo River, a right tributary of the opening into the Mississippi River Wisconsin. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin is located approximately 50 km to the west.

The Town of Kickapoo 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 Kickapoo are 43 ° 27'43 " north latitude and 90 ° 45'01 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 98.1 km ². The Town of Kickapoo completely surrounds the independent municipality Readstown without them belonging to the Town.

The Town of Kickapoo is located south of Vernon County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:

Traffic

Through the area run the U.S. highways 14 and 61 and the Wisconsin State Highway 131, which meets in the area surrounded by the Township Read Town. In addition, still lead the County Highway I, M, S and U through the territory of the Town. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( around 85 km north-west ), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota ( 200 km west-northwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Wisconsin's capital, Madison ( 140 km east-southeast ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Kickapoo 626 people in 224 households. The population density was 6.4 people per square kilometer. In the 224 households lived statistically 2.79 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 95.7 percent white, 0.6 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and 2.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

26.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.8 percent were 65 years or older. 48.7 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 41,902. The per capita income was $ 19,706. 12.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Villages in the Town of Kickapoo

In addition to scattered settlements exist with Sugar Grove in the Town of Kickapoo still unincorporated settlement.