Linden (Wisconsin)
Iowa County
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Linden is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Iowa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Linden had 549 inhabitants.
Linden is part of the metropolitan area of Madison.
Geography
Linden is located in southwest Wisconsin. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin is located 136 km north-west. After Illinois, there are 57.3 kilometers in the south.
The geographical coordinates are 42 ° 55'04 Linden " north latitude and 90 ° 16'24 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 2.02 km ². The town is completely surrounded by the Town of Linden without belonging to it.
Neighboring towns of Linden are Dodgeville ( 16.9 kilometers east-northeast ), Mineral Point (11,8 km southeast), Belmont ( 28.1 km SSW ), Rewey (18,6 km southwest), Livingston (14,7 km to the west ), Montfort ( 18.4 km WNW ), Cobb (9.3 km north-west ) and Highland ( 20.8 km NNW ).
The nearest large towns are La Crosse (161 km north-northwest ), Green Bay (307 km northeast), Wisconsin's capital, Madison ( 87.4 km ENE ), Rockford, Illinois (145 km southeast), the Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois (190 km SSW ) and Cedar Rapids, Iowa (192 km southwest).
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 39 leads as the main road through the center of Linden. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
With the Iowa County Airport is located 6.2 km south-east a small airfield. The next airports are the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital ( 97.2 km ENE ), the Chicago Rockford International Airport (157 km southeast) and the Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa (87 km southwest).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Linden 549 people in 214 households. The population density was 271.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 214 households lived statistically 2.57 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.6 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American and 0.7 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
29.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 10.6 percent were 65 years or older. 51.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 52,697. The per capita income was $ 24,540. 3.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- John Hammill (1875-1936) - 24th Governor of Iowa - born in Linden
- William M. Treloar (1850-1935) - 1895-1897 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives - born in Linden