Paris (Grant County, Wisconsin)
Grant County
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The Town of Paris is one of 33 Towns in Grant County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Paris 702 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 Paris is located in southwest Wisconsin and completely surrounds the city of Dickeyville, without that it belongs to the Town. The Platte River flows through the town in the northwest and flows directly behind their western border in the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Iowa. The border with Illinois is located approximately 15 km south.
The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Paris 42 ° 39'01 " north latitude and 90 ° 36'37 " west longitude. It extends spread over an area of 92 km ², which is 91 km ² on land and 1 km ² water surface.
The Town of Paris is located in the south of the Grant County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:
Traffic
The four-lane U.S. Highway 151 runs in the northeast-southwest direction through the Town of Paris. In the southern center of the Town of U.S. Highway 61 and Wisconsin Highway 35 opens into the U.S. 151 and proceed with in a southeasterly direction on a section of track shared. All three roads form on its course parallel to the Mississippi the Wisconsin section of the Great River Road. All other roads are minor roads or partly unpaved roadways.
With the Platteville Municipal Airport is located approximately 20 km east a small airfield. The nearest major airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Dubuque, Iowa ( 30 km SSW ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital ( 140 km east-northeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Paris, 702 people in 263 households. The population density was 7.7 people per square kilometer. In the 263 households lived statistically 2.67 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.7 percent white, 0.1 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American and 1.6 percent Asian; 0.1 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.
24.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 11.4 percent were 65 years or older. 49.0 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 72,708. The per capita income was $ 31,557. 3.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Paris
In the area of the Town of Paris are located next to stray no further colonization settlements.