Rockbridge, Wisconsin

Richland County

55-68675

The Town of Rockbridge is one of 16 Towns in Richland County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Rockbridge 734 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 Rockbridge is located in southwest Wisconsin and Pine River flowing through it, a right tributary of the opening into the Mississippi River Wisconsin. The border with Iowa is located approximately 90 km west. According to Minnesota is approximately 95 km in a north- north-westerly direction; to Illinois is 120 km to the south.

The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Rockbridge are 43 ° 25'24 " north latitude and 90 ° 22'13 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 93.7 km ².

The Town of Rockbridge is in the center of Richland County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:

Traffic

The Wisconsin State Highway 80 runs north -south through the Town of Rockbridge. In the south of the Town of coming from the northwest Wisconsin State Highway 56 opens into the WI 80. In addition, run nor the County Highway D and I through the territory of the Town of Rockbridge. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways.

With the Richland Airport is around 20 km south of the Town, a small airfield. The next airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa (about 140 km south-southwest ), the La Crosse Regional Airport ( around 110 km north-west ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital ( 120 km east-southeast ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Rockbridge 734 people in 293 households. The population density was 7.8 people per square kilometer. In the 293 households lived statistically 2.51 per person.

Ethnically, the population consisted with five exceptions only from whites. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.1 percent ( a person ) of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

23.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.3 percent were 65 years or older. 47.7 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 58,958. The per capita income was $ 24,663. 7.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Villages in the Town of Rockbridge

In addition to scattered settlements still exist in the Town of Rockbridge following unincorporated settlements:

• Buck Creek
• Rockbridge