Rhinelander (Wisconsin)
Oneida County
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Rhinelander is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Oneida County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Rhinelander had 7798 inhabitants.
Rhinelander is the home of the Hodag, a fictional animal that has been described as follows: "the head of a frog, the grinning face of a giant elephant, thick short legs ending in large claws, the back of a dinosaur, and a long tail without tip at the end. " The Hodag is the mascot of the city and the local high school. The stadium of Rhinelander High School is named after the football star Mike Webster, who has attended this High School.
Geography
Rhinelander is located in northern Wisconsin, on either side of the opening into the Mississippi River Wisconsin. The geographic coordinates of Rhinelander are 45 ° 38'12 " north latitude and 89 ° 24'43 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 22.3 km ².
Neighboring towns of Rhinelander are Roosevelt (10 km east-northeast ), Malvern ( 13.3 km east-southeast ), Woodboro (12,7 km to the west ) and Newbold (12.5 km to the northwest ).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (217 km southeast), Appleton (227 km south-southeast ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee ( 366 km in the same direction), Wausau ( 90.9 km to the south), Wisconsin's capital Madison ( 316 km in the same direction), Eau Claire (245 km southwest), the Twin Cities in Minnesota ( 366 km west-southwest ) and Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (301 km north-west ).
Traffic
U.S. Highway 8 runs in east-west direction along the southern city limits of Rhinelander. In the center of the Wisconsin State Highways 17 and 47 meet together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
By Rhinelander runs for freight traffic a railway line of the Canadian National Railway ( CN).
With the Rhinelander -Oneida County Airport is located in the west of the urban area a Regionalfklughafen.
History
The city, which at first was called Pelican Rapids is named after F. W. Rhinelander, a president of the Lake Shore and Western Railroad.
The FBI agent Melvin Purvis had been with the big manhunt for the criminals to John Dillinger, drawing attention to itself through bank robberies and prison breaks in the Midwestern United States, entrusted. As the band on the run from the authorities hiding in a forest hut in Rhinelander, the police managed to make it through hints of the residents of this hiding of criminals identified. Purvis led on April 22, 1934, a command to arrest the criminals. The band was, however, after a bloody firefight with many injured and 3 dead, escape.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Rhinelander 7798 people in 3545 households. The population density was 349.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 3545 households lived statistically 2.1 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 95.2 percent white, 1.0 percent African American, 1.2 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
21.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.1 percent were 65 years or older. 53.0 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 32,419. The per capita income was $ 21,033. 19.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Dan Forsman, golfers
- Vanessa Semrow, Model
- Dale Wasserman ( November 2, 1917 † December 21, 2008 in Paradise Valley, Arizona), writer