Seneca, Crawford County, Wisconsin
Crawford County
55-72500
The Town of Seneca is one of eleven Towns in Crawford County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Seneca 866 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 Seneca is located in southwestern Wisconsin, on the east bank of the Iowa border to forming Mississippi. The intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota is located about 30 km north.
The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Seneca are 43 ° 15'24 " north latitude and 91 ° 00'06 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 169.7 km ², spread 151.8 km ² land and 17.9 km ² water surface. To the west of the Town is the location on the Mississippi Lynxville independent community, which is surrounded on three sides by the Town.
The Town of Seneca is located in the west of Crawford County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns and townships:
Traffic
Through the Town of Seneca the Wisconsin State Highway 35, which forms the Wisconsin section of the Great River Road runs here. Through the center of the Town runs the Wisconsin State Highway 27; the Wisconsin State Highway 171 runs along the northern border. In addition, still lead the County Highway E, F, and S through the territory of the Town of Seneca. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways.
Along the Mississippi runs for freight traffic, a railroad line of the BNSF Railway.
The Prairie du Chien Municipal Airport is located about 35 south-southwest a small airfield. The next airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa ( about 120 km south), the La Crosse Regional Airport ( 90 km north ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital city ( some 150 km to the east ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Seneca 866 people in 338 households. The population density was 5.7 people per square kilometer. In the 338 households lived statistically 2.56 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.6 percent White, 0.3 percent Native American and 0.6 percent Asian; 0.5 percent were descended from two or more races.
25.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.4 percent were 65 years or older. 46.7 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 45,114. The per capita income was $ 20,699. 15.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Seneca
In addition to scattered settlements exist with Seneca still a unincorporated settlement on the territory of the Town of Seneca.