Ripon (Wisconsin)
Fond du Lac County
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Ripon is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Fond du Lac County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Ripon had 7733 inhabitants.
Geography
Ripon is located in the central southeastern Wisconsin, about 70 km to the west of Lake Michigan. The geographical coordinates are 43 ° 50'42 Ripon " north latitude and 88 ° 50'23 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 11 km ² and is completely surrounded by the Town of Ripon without belonging to it.
Neighboring towns of Ripon are Pickett (12.5 km northeast), Rosendale ( 14.1 km east-southeast ), Brandon ( 15.6 km SSE ), Fairwater ( 12.1 km SSW ), Green Lake ( 11.6 km to the west ) and Berlin (14,9 km to the northwest ).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (114 km northeast), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee (132 km southeast), Chicago, Illinois (281 km south-southeast ), Rockford, Illinois (206 km south) and Wisconsin's capital Madison (116 km south-southwest ).
Traffic
In the city of Ripon Wisconsin State Highways take 23, 44 and 49 together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
By Ripon runs a railroad line of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad ( WSOR ), a regional (Class II ) Freight transportation company.
The Fond du Lac County Airport is located 32.1 km east-southeast a small airfield. The next airports are the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (114 km south-southwest ) and the General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee (142 km southeast).
History
Ripon was founded in 1849 and named after one of the oldest towns in England. The city is known for the Ripon College and especially as a birthplace of the Republican Party of the United States. The old school house of Ripon, the Little White School House, since 1974 has been declared a National Historic Landmark. It has been classified by the Home Office of the United States as a " place of an important event in American history " as particularly significant and added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is one of 40 historic sites in Wisconsin.
List of mayors in Ripon
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Ripon 7733 people in 3053 households. The population density was 703 people per square kilometer. In the 3053 households lived statistically 2.22 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 94.7 percent white, 0.7 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and 2.6 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 5.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
20.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.0 percent were 65 years or older. 52.6 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 43,598. The per capita income was $ 20,886. 15.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Alvan E. Bovay (1818-1903) - co-founder of the Republican Party - worked as a lawyer in Ripon
- Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) - Women's rights activist - born in Ripon
- George W. Peck (1840-1916) - 17th Governor of Wisconsin ( 1891-1895 ) - was treasurer from 1867 to 1873 of Ripon
- Gordon Selfridge (1858-1947) - Kaufmann - born in Ripon
- Otto Julius Zobel (1887-1970) - Electrical Engineers - born in Ripon