Superior (Wisconsin)
Douglas County
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Superior is a port city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Douglas County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Superior had 27,244 inhabitants.
Superior is Duluth, Minnesota part of the federal multi-state metropolitan Twin Ports.
Geography
The city is located in the northwest Wisconsin on the southwestern shore of Lake Superior, the largest of the five Great Lakes of North America. In Superior of Saint Louis River and Nemadji River flow into Lake Superior.
The geographical coordinates of 46 ° 43'09 Superior " north latitude and 92 ° 06'10 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 143.6 km ², the 95.7 km ² land and 47.9 km ² water surface spread.
Besides lying on the opposite bank of the Saint Louis River in Minnesota City Duluth Superior's are more neighboring towns South Range (17,9 km southeast), Superior ( Village ) ( on the southern city limits ), Oliver (13,2 km southwest) and Proctor in Minnesota (12,1 km west ).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (509 km south-east ), Eau Claire (242 km south-southeast ), Wisconsin's capital Madison ( 523 km in the same direction), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (246 km south-southwest ) and Thunder Bay in the Canadian province of Ontario (313 km northeast).
Traffic
In Superior is one of the largest ports located in the Great Lakes region.
In the urban area, the U.S. Highways 2 and 53 and the Wisconsin State Highways 13 and 35 meet together.
In the city of Superior several railway lines of the BNSF Railway and the Canadian National Railway belonging to the Wisconsin Central meet together.
The nearest airport is Duluth International Airport (18 km north-west ).
Educational institutions
In Superior is the Comprehensive University of Wisconsin- Superior of the University of Wisconsin System, on, inter alia, Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California and studied also received an honorary doctorate.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Superior 27,244 people in 11,670 households. The population density was 284.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 11,670 households lived statistically 2.23 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 91.5 percent white, 1.4 percent African American, 2.6 percent Native American, 1.2 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 3.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
21.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 65.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.5 percent were 65 years or older. 51.0 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 41,144. The per capita income was $ 23,998. 16.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Sons and daughters
- Tuffy Leemans (1912-1979), American football player
- Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach (1894-1948), politician
- Fulton McGrath (1907-1958), jazz pianist and composer
- Tim Solin, Curler
- Raymond Somerville, Curler
- Tim Somerville, Curler
- Jeffrey Nels Williams (born 1958 ), astronaut