Stark (Wisconsin)
Vernon County
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The Town of Stark is one of 21 Towns in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Stark 363 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 Stark is located in southwestern Wisconsin and is drained by the Kickapoo River, a right tributary of the opening into the Mississippi River Wisconsin. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin is located 70 km west-southwest.
The Town of Stark is in the Driftless Area mentioned glacially shaped region that stretches across the southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and extreme northwestern Illinois. In the last ice age, the Wisconsin Glaciation so-called, the region remained free of ice, so that the river valleys were cut deep into the plateau during this time.
The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Stark are 43 ° 35'44 " north latitude and 90 ° 36'35 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 89.2 km ². The Town of Stark completely encloses the independent municipality of La Farge, without that belongs to the Town.
The Town of Stark lies to the east of Vernon County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 131 leads in a north-south direction through the Town of Stark; in east-west direction is the Wisconsin State Highway 82 Both roads cross in the not belonging Town municipality of La Farge. In addition, still lead the County Highway D and P by the area of the Town. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( 85 km west-northwest ), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota ( about 185 km west-northwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Wisconsin's capital, Madison ( about 160 km south-east ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Stark 363 people in 147 households. The population density was 4.1 people per square kilometer. In the 147 households lived statistically 2.44 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.1 percent white, 0.3 percent African American and 1.1 percent Asian; 0.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
19.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.1 percent were 65 years or older. 48.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 39,236. The per capita income was $ 20,407. 17.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Stark
In addition to scattered settlements exist in the Town of Stark with tunnel Ville still unincorporated settlement, which lies partly in the south adjacent Town of Forest in Richland County.