Swiss (Wisconsin)
Burnett County
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The Town of Swiss is one of 21 Towns in Burnett County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Swiss had 790 inhabitants. Swiss was founded in 1848 by Swiss immigrants.
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 Swiss is located in northwestern Wisconsin, which forms the border with Minnesota on the southeastern shore of the opening into the Mississippi St. Croix River.
The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Swiss are 46 ° 00'59 " north latitude and 92 ° 17'29 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 157.2 km ², spread over 148.8 km ² land and 8.4 km ² water surface.
The Town of Swiss is in the north of the Burnett County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns and townships:
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 35 runs parallel to the St. Croix River through the Town of Swiss and crosses here the running in the east-west direction Wisconsin State Highway 77 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In Danbury, the only settlement in the Town of Swiss, is the northern endpoint of the Gandy Dancer State Trail. It is a rail trail designated as a combined walking and bicycle path on the route of a disused railway line. The name of the path goes back to the slang word Gandy Dancer, making a railway worker was called.
With the Burnett County Airport is located 27.5 km south a small airfield. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (187 km south-southwest ).
Population
In addition to the settlement of Danbury, which (CDP ) was summarized only for statistical purposes as a census-designated place, most of the inhabitants live scattered over the scattered field in individual homes.
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Swiss 790 people in 355 households. The population density was 5.3 people per square kilometer. In the 355 households lived statistically 00000 people each.
The racial the population was composed of 75.1 percent white, 0.8 percent African American, 20.8 percent Native American, 0.1 percent (one person) Asians and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
17.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 22.5 percent were 65 years or older. 49.5 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 53,149. The per capita income was $ 27,240. 16.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.