Stoddard (Wisconsin)
Vernon County
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Stoddard is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Stoddard had 774 inhabitants.
Geography
Stoddard is located in southwest Wisconsin at the mouth of Coon Creek in the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Minnesota here. The intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin is 18.4 kilometers downstream.
Stoddard is the Driftless Area mentioned glacially shaped region that stretches across the southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and the 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 are 43 ° 39'43 Stoddard " north latitude and 91 ° 13'06 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 2.05 km ². The town is completely surrounded by the Town of Bergen, without belonging to it.
Neighboring towns of Stoddard are La Crosse (17,7 km to the north ), Coon Valley ( 21.7 km ENE ), Chase Castle (12,3 km east), Genoa (10.3 km to the south ).
The nearest big cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan ( 338 km east-northeast ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee ( 328 km east-southeast ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (192 km southeast), Rockford, Illinois ( 313 km in the same direction), the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa (295 km south), Cedar Rapids, Iowa (236 km south-southwest ), Rochester, Minnesota (138 km west-northwest ) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (252 km north-west ).
Traffic
The running along the Mississippi Wisconsin State Highway 35 here is the Wisconsin section of the Great River Road. The current coming from the east Wisconsin State Highway 162 reaches the confluence with the WIS 35 in Stoddard its western terminus. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Along the Mississippi runs for freight railway line of the BNSF Railway, the second largest railway company in the country.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport (28 km north), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota (137 km west-northwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (200 km east-southeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Stoddard 774 people in 335 households. The population density was 377.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 335 households lived statistically 2.31 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.7 percent white, 0.6 percent African Americans, 0.1 percent (one person) Native American, 0.1 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
23.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.2 percent were 65 years or older. 51.9 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 43,750. The per capita income was $ 25,337. 11.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.