Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Portage County
55-77200
Stevens Point is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Portage County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Stevens Point had 26 717 inhabitants.
In Stevens Point, there is a campus of the University of Wisconsin.
Geography
Stevens Point is located in the middle of Wisconsin along the Wisconsin River, a left tributary of the Mississippi. Thanks to the east of the city flows the Plover River, which flows approximately one kilometer south of the urban area in the Wisconsin River.
The geographical coordinates of 44 ° 31'25 Stevens Point are " north latitude and 89 ° 34'28 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 44.55 km ², which at 41.34 km ² land and 3.21 km ² water surface spread.
Neighboring towns of Stevens Point are Park Ridge ( is completely surrounded by the city of Stevens Point), Plover ( on the southern city limits ), Rudolph (21,8 km west ), Junction City ( 19.9 km north west ), Rosholt ( 27.7 km northeast) and Custer (12,4 km east).
The nearest large towns are Wausau (56 km north), Green Bay on Lake Michigan (139 km east), Appleton (111 km east-southeast ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee (242 km southeast), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (177 km south ), La Crosse on the Mississippi River (186 km west-southwest ), Eau Claire (183 km west-northwest ), the Twin Cities in Minnesota ( 314 km in the same direction) and Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (417 km north-west ).
Traffic
Interstate 39 and the here running on a section of track shared U.S. Highway 51 leads in a north-south direction through the east of Stevens Point. Through the center running in a north-south direction of the Business U.S. 51 in west-east direction of U.S. Highway 10 and northeast-southwest direction of the Wisconsin State Highway 66 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local connecting roads.
Meet in Stevens Point for freight traffic along several railroad lines of the Canadian National Railway (CN).
The Stevens Point Municipal Airport is located in the northeastern area, a small airfield. The nearest commercial airport is Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee in Wausau (33 km north).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Stevens Point 26 717 people in 10,598 households. The population density was 646.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 10,598 households lived statistically 2.21 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 91.7 percent white, 0.9 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 4.7 percent Asian and 0.7 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
16 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 72 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12 percent were 65 years or older. 51.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 38,934. The per capita income was $ 21,429. 23.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Webster E. Brown (1851-1929) - Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1901-1907) - lived for several years in Stevens Point
- George W. Cate (1825-1905) - Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1875-1877) - died in Stevens Point and is buried here
- Lee S. Dreyfus (1926-2008) - 40th Governor of Wisconsin ( 1979-1983 ) - was dean at the University of Stevens Point
- Suzy Favor - Hamilton ( b. 1968 ) - former middle distance runner - born and raised in Stevens Point
- Robert Frederick Fröhlke (* 1922) - politician - lived and worked for many years in Stevens Point
- Kathy Kinney (born 1954 ) - actress - born and raised in Stevens Point
- Janel McCarville (* 1982 ) - basketball player - born and raised in Stevens Point
- Joe Pavelski ( born 1984 ) - hockey player - born and raised in Stevens Point
- Lauren chair (b. 1983) - Canadian soccer player - born in Stevens Point
- Chris Solinsky ( born 1984 ) - Long- distance runners - born and raised in Stevens Point
- Garrett Weber- Gale ( born 1985 ) - swimmers, Olympians - born and raised in Stevens Point
- Peter Weller ( born 1947 ) - actor - born in Stevens Point
- Chester Yorton (* 1940) - Bodybuilders - born in Stevens Point