Union, Vernon County, Wisconsin
Vernon County
55-81675
The Town of Union is one of 21 Towns in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Union 700 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 Union is located in southwest Wisconsin, about 100 km east of the Mississippi located at the intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
The Town of Union is located in the Driftless Area mentioned glacially shaped region that stretches across the southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and 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 of the center of the Town of Union, 43 ° 36'14 " north latitude and 90 ° 29'06 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 92.6 km ².
The Town of Union is located in the east of Vernon County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 82 leads in northeast-southwest direction through the Town of Union. In addition, run nor the County Highways A, D, H, and V through the area of Town. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( about 100 km north- north-west ), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota ( about 215 km west-northwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Wisconsin's capital, Madison (about 125 km east-southeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Union, 700 people in 211 households. The population density was 7.6 people per square kilometer. In the 211 households lived statistically 3.32 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.7 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.9 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.1 percent ( a person ) of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
35.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 10.1 percent were 65 years or older. 47.9 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 42,273. The per capita income was $ 15,040. 33.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Union
In addition to scattered settlements exist in the Town of Union with White City still unincorporated settlement.