Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
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Mount Horeb is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Dane County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Mount Horeb had 7009 inhabitants.
Mount Horeb is part of the metropolitan area of Madison.
Geography
Mount Horeb is located in south central Wisconsin, in the southwestern suburban area of the capital, Madison. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois is located 108 km west-southwest.
The geographic coordinates of Mount Horeb are 43 ° 00'31 " north latitude and 89 ° 44'18 " west longitude. Mount Horeb covers an area of 8.42 km ².
The center of Madison is located 33.2 km east-northeast. Other neighboring towns are Black Earth (16,4 km to the north ), Cross Plains (16,8 km northeast), Verona (18,2 km to the east), Blue Mounds (8.3 miles west) and Vermont (12 km north-northwest ).
The nearest big cities are Green Bay (265 km northeast), Milwaukee (169 km east), Chicago (255 km southeast) and Rockford (126 km south-southeast ).
Traffic
Along the southern Ortsrands run on a four-lane section of track shared the U.S. Highways 18 and 151 through the town center into north-south direction of the Wisconsin State Highways 78 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Due to the metropolitan area leads the Ice Age National Scenic Trail, one belonging to the National Scenic Trails distance footpath and on the route of a former railway line of the Chicago and North Western Railway with the Military Ridge State Trail, a rail trail for walkers and cyclists. In the winter the trail can be traveled with snowmobiles.
The nearest airport is Dane County Regional Airport in Madison ( 47.2 km ENE ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Mount Horeb 7009 people in 2696 households. The population density was 832.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 2696 households lived statistically 2.56 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.0 percent white, 0.8 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
29.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 11.4 percent were 65 years or older. 52.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 67,063. The per capita income was $ 28,853. 6.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Herman Bjorn Dahle (1855-1920) - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1899-1903) - died in Mount Horeb