Meenon, Wisconsin

Burnett County

55-50650

The Town of Meenon is one of 21 Towns in Burnett County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Meenon had 1163 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 Meenon is located in northwestern Wisconsin and flows through southeast to northwest from the Clam River, a left tributary of the opening into the Mississippi St. Croix River, which forms the border with Minnesota.

The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Meenon are 45 ° 50'36 " north latitude and 92 ° 20'10 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 86.2 km ² to 82.6 km ² land and 3.6 km ² water surface spread.

The Town of Meenon located in the center of the Burnett County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:

In the south of the Town of Meenon located on the border with the town of Siren, the Burnett County Government Center. To the northwest lies the completely surrounded by the Town of Meenon independent place Webster.

Traffic

The Wisconsin State Highway 35 runs north -south through the Town of Meenon. The Wisconsin State Highway 70 runs in east-west direction through the Town. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

Through the Town of Meenon runs in a north-south direction with the Gandy Dancer State Trail Rail Trail, designated as a combined walking and bicycle path on the route of a disused railway line. The name of the path goes back to the slang word Gandy Dancer, making a railway worker was called.

With the Burnett County Airport is located south of the Town of Meenon, opposite the Countyverwaltungsgebäude, a small airfield. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (170 km southwest).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Meenon 1163 people in 487 households. The population density was 14.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 487 households lived statistically 2.27 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 91.2 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 4.2 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian, 0.1 percent (one person) Polynesians and 0.3 percent from other races groups; 3.4 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.

22.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.9 percent were 65 years or older. 46.9 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 46,016. The per capita income was $ 22,222. 16.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.