Siren (Wisconsin)
Burnett County
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Siren is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Burnett County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Siren had 806 inhabitants.
Geography
Siren is located in a lakeside scenery in northwest Wisconsin, about 30 km east of the border with Minnesota. The geographical coordinates are 45 ° 47'09 Siren " north latitude and 92 ° 22'52 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 3.32 km ².
Towns nearby are of Siren Webster (10,8 km to the north ), Frederic ( 16.9 km SSW ), Trade Lake (26 km southwest) and Grantsburg (24,7 km west ).
The Burnett County Government Center in the neighboring Town of Meenon is located 4.7 km north of Siren.
The nearest major cities are Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (124 km north), Eau Claire (173 km southeast) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (149 km southwest).
Traffic
In Siren the Wisconsin State Highways 35 and 70 meet together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
By Siren runs with the Gandy Dancer State Trail Rail Trail designated as a combined walking and bicycle path on the route of a disused railway line. The name of the path goes back to the slang word Gandy Dancer, making a railway worker was called.
With the Burnett County Airport is located 4.7 km north, opposite the Countyverwaltungsgebäude, a small airfield. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (157 km southwest).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Siren 806 people in 376 households. The population density was 242.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 376 households lived statistically 2.13 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 90.0 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 4.1 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 4.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
22.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 23.0 percent were 65 years or older. 53.6 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 31,719. The per capita income was $ 19,859. 24.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.