Solon Springs, Wisconsin
Douglas County
55-74575
Solon Springs is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Douglas County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Solon Springs had 600 inhabitants.
Solon Springs is part of the nationwide multi-state metropolitan Twin Ports around the cities of Superior and Duluth, Minnesota.
Geography
The municipality is located in northwest Wisconsin on the Upper Saint Croix Lake, near the Portage on the watershed from the opening into the Bois Brule River to Lake Superior flowing into the Mississippi St. Croix River
The geographical coordinates of Solon Springs 46 ° 21'12 " north latitude and 91 ° 49'21 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 5.96 km ² to 4.07 km ² land and 1.89 km ² water surface spread. The community of Solon Springs is completely surrounded by the Town of Solon Springs, without belonging to it.
Neighboring towns of Solon Springs, Poplar (28,8 km to the north ) and Gordon (13 km south).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (470 km south-east ), Wisconsin's capital Madison ( 473 km south-southeast ), Eau Claire (192 km south), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (250 km southwest) and Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada (364 km northeast).
Traffic
The U.S. Highway 53 leads in a north-south direction as Hauptststraße by Solon Springs. A four-lane bypass road runs along the western city limits. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
The Solon Springs Municipal Airport is located 22.6 km east a small airfield. The nearest commercial airport is the Duluth International Airport ( 68.5 km NNW ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Solon Springs 600 people in 263 households. The population density was 147.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 263 households lived statistically 2.28 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.5 percent white, 0.2 percent African Americans and 1.3 percent of Native Americans; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
23.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.7 percent were 65 years or older. 51.5 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 36,477. The per capita income was $ 22,169. 8.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.