Ridgeway (town), Wisconsin

Iowa County

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The Town of Ridgeway is one of 14 Towns in Iowa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Ridgeway 568 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.

The area of ​​the Town of Ridgeway is part of the Madison Metropolitan Region.

Geography

The Town of Ridgeway is located in southwest Wisconsin. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota is located approximately 140 km north-west; to Illinois is approximately 70 km to the south.

The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Ridgeway are 42 ° 59'27 " north latitude and 89 ° 59'29 " west longitude. It extends over an area of ​​110.6 km ². The Town of Ridgeway completely surrounds the Village of Ridgeway, listened without that the Town.

The Town of Ridgeway is located in the eastern center of the Iowa County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:

Traffic

Through the Town perform in West southwest -northeast direction on a section of track shared the U.S. Highways 18 and 151 through the southwest corner of the Town of Wisconsin State Highway 191 runs lead addition nor the County Highway H, Y and W through the field of Town of Ridgeway. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways.

Parallel to the road U.S. 18 / U.S. 151 runs through the territory of the Town of Ridgeway 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.

With the Iowa County Airport is located approximately 30 km west a small airfield. The next airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa ( about 100 km southwest), the Chicago Rockford International Airport ( around 150 km south-east ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital ( 65 km east ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Ridgeway 568 people in 231 households. The population density was 5.1 people per square kilometer. In the 231 households lived statistically 2.46 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.5 percent white, 0.7 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.9 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.

19.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 66.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.9 percent were 65 years or older. 48.1 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 69,167. The per capita income was $ 30,987. 12.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Villages in the Town of Ridgeway

In addition to scattered settlements exist in the Town of Ridgeway nor the unincorporated settlement Hyde.

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