Viola (Wisconsin)
Vernon County Richland County
55-82900
Viola is a town ( with a status of "Village" ) in Vernon County and to a lesser extent in Richland County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Viola had 699 inhabitants.
Geography
Viola is located in southwest Wisconsin on the Kickapoo River, a right tributary of the opening into the Mississippi River Wisconsin. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin is located 57 km to the west.
Viola is located in 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 ° 30'27 Viola " north latitude and 90 ° 40'13 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 2.64 km ².
Neighboring towns of Viola are La Farge (10 km north-northeast ), Yuba (25,1 km to the east), Read Town (11,7 km southwest) and Viroqua ( 20.9 km WNW ).
The nearest large towns are La Crosse (70 km north-west ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (131 km east-southeast ), Rockford, Illinois (234 km southeast), the Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois (250 km south) and Cedar Rapids, Iowa ( 251 km south-southwest ).
Traffic
In the center of the Viola extending in a north-south direction Wisconsin State Highway 131 crosses the leading from west to east Wisconsin State Highway 56 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( 80.7 km north west ), the Dubuque Regional Airport in Dubuque, Iowa (148 km south) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital (139 km east-southeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Viola 699 people in 279 households. The population density was 264.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 279 households lived statistically 2.51 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.6 percent white, 0.6 percent African American and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
27.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 55.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.9 percent were 65 years or older. 52.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 36,964. The per capita income was $ 18,228. 8.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.