Webster, Burnett County, Wisconsin

Burnett County

55-85025

Webster is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Burnett County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Webster had 653 inhabitants.

Geography

Webster is located in a lakeside scenery in northwest Wisconsin, about 30 km east of the border with Minnesota. The geographical coordinates are 45 ° 52'45 Webster " north latitude and 92 ° 21'55 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 4.56 km ².

Towns nearby Webster are Oakland (7.3 km north) and Siren ( 10.8 km to the south).

The Burnett County Government Center in the neighboring Town of Meenon is located 6.2 km south of Webster.

The nearest major cities are Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (114 km north), Eau Claire (176 km southeast) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (160 km southwest).

Traffic

The Wisconsin State Highway 35 runs north -south direction as the main road through Webster. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

By Webster runs with the Gandy Dancer State Trail 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 6.2 km south, opposite the Countyverwaltungsgebäude, a small airfield. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (168 km southwest).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Webster 653 people in 308 households. The population density was 143.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 308 households lived statistically 2.12 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 90.4 percent white, 1.8 percent African American, 3.8 percent Native American, 0.2 percent (one person) Asians and 0.9 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

24.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 21.6 percent were 65 years or older. 56.4 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 35,813. The per capita income was $ 19,033. 20.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.