La Farge (Wisconsin)
Vernon County
55-40875
La Farge is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, La Farge had 746 inhabitants.
Geography
La Farge is located in southwest Wisconsin on 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 65 km to the west.
La Farge 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 La Farge are 43 ° 34'29 " north latitude and 90 ° 38'26 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 2.85 km ². The town is completely surrounded by the Town of Stark, without belonging to it.
Neighboring villages of La Farge are Ontario ( 20.3 km NNE ), West Lima ( 11.2 km east-southeast ) and Viola (10 km south-southwest ).
The nearest big cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (282 km east-northeast ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee (281 km east-southeast ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (141 km southeast), Rockford, Illinois (280 km in the same direction), the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa (260 km south), Cedar Rapids, Iowa (263 km south-southwest ), Rochester, Minnesota (188 km west-northwest ) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (304 km north-west ).
Traffic
In the center of La Farge of running in a north-south direction Wisconsin State Highway 132 and the leading from west to east Wisconsin State Highway 82 intersect All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( 72.2 km north west ), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota (186 km west-northwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (149 km southeast).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in La Farge 746 people in 332 households. The population density was 261.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 332 households lived statistically 2.17 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.1 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 1.6 percent Native American, 0.1 percent of a person ) Asians and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
20.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.0 percent were 65 years or older. 49.3 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 41,094. The per capita income was $ 21,582. 12.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Charles R. Savage (1906-1976) - 1945-1947 Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives - born and raised in La Farge