Knapp, Dunn County, Wisconsin

55-39975

Knapp is a municipality ( with the status of Village ) in Dunn County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In the census in 2010, Knapp had 463 inhabitants.

Geography

Knapp is located in the central northwestern Wisconsin at 44 ° 57'19 " north latitude and 92 ° 04'32 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 4.12 km ². The community Knapp is surrounded on the west, north and east of the Town of Stanton and in the south of the Town of Lucas, but belongs to none of these Towns.

Neighboring towns of Knapp are Boyceville (12 km north-northeast ), Tainter Lake ( 25.5 km to the east), Menomonie (17,2 km southeast), Elmwood ( 23.7 km SSW ), Spring Valley (23,2 km southwest), Wilson (8.7 miles west) and Downing (14 km north-northwest ).

The nearest large towns are the capital of Minnesota St. Paul ( 84.3 km to the west ), Eau Claire ( 53.9 km east-southeast ), La Crosse (182 km southeast) and Rochester, Minnesota (147 km south-southwest ).

Traffic

The running in the east-west U.S. Highway 12 leads as the main road through Knapp. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

For freight transport, in addition to the U.S. 12 a railroad line of the Union Pacific Railroad runs through the municipality of Knapp.

With the Menomonie Municipal Airport is located 21.8 km south-southeast of a small airfield. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (104 km west).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Nearly 463 people in 214 households. The population density was 112.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 214 households lived statistically 2.16 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.8 percent white and 1.1 percent of Native Americans; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 0.2 percent were ( a person ) of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

19.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 22.7 percent were 65 years or older. 47.7 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 30,000. The per capita income was $ 22,747. 20.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.