Marion (Grant County, Wisconsin)
Grant County
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The Town of Marion is one of 33 Towns in Grant County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Marion had 572 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 Marion is located in southwestern Wisconsin, on the south bank of the Wisconsin River, a left tributary of the Iowa border to forming Mississippi. The border with Illinois is located approximately 70 km south.
The coordinates of the geographical center of the Town of Marion are 43 ° 04'31 " north latitude and 90 ° 43'26 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 92.5 km ² which 91.7 km ² land and 0.8 km ² water surface spread.
The Town of Marion is located in the north of Grant County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:
Traffic
U.S. Highway 61 runs north- south through the Town of Marion. In addition, still lead Wisconsin State Highway 133 and County Highway C, K and Z by the Town. All other roads are minor roads or partly unpaved roadways.
Along the Wisconsin River runs for freight railway line of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad, which continues from the Mississippi River to Madison and from there to Milwaukee.
With the Boscobel Airport is located in the small town of Boscobel, a small airport ( about 10 km north of the Town of Marion ). The next airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa ( about 95 km south) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital ( 140 km east ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Marion 572 people in 218 households. The population density was 6.2 people per square kilometer. In the 218 households lived statistically 2.62 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 93.5 percent White, 0.2 percent (one person) Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and 4.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 4.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.3 percent were 65 years or older. 44.8 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 41,563. The per capita income was $ 18,328. 25.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Marion
In the area of Town of Marion are located next to stray no further colonization settlements.