Tilden (Wisconsin)
Chippewa County
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The Town of Tilden is one of 23 Towns in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Town of Tilden had 1485 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 Tilden is located in western Wisconsin and flows through the north- east of Duncan Creek, a right tributary of the Chippewa River. Its confluence with the Minnesota border to the Mississippi forming is located about 100 km south-west.
The coordinates of the geographical center of the Town of Tilden are 44 ° 59'50 " north latitude and 91 ° 26'43 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 93.4 km ².
The Town of Tilden is located in the southwestern center of Chippewa County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:
Traffic
The four-lane U.S. Highway 53 runs north- south through the territory of the Town of Tilden. In addition, run nor the County Roads B, C, F, Q, and S by the Town. All other roads are minor roads or partly unpaved roadways.
Due to the extreme southwest of the Town runs for freight traffic a railway line belonging to the Canadian National Railway Wisconsin Central.
The nearest airport is Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire ( about 20 km south).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Tilden 1485 people in 546 households. The population density was 15.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 546 households lived statistically 2.71 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.6 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.1 percent were 65 years or older. 46.7 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 68,417. The per capita income was $ 31,214. 2.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Tilden
In the area of Town of Tilden is next scattered settlement nor the unincorporated settlement Tilden.