Wheatland (Iowa)

Clinton County

19-84945

Wheatland is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Clinton County in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Iowa. In 2010, Wheatland had 764 inhabitants.

Geography

Wheatland is located at 41 ° 49'54 " north latitude and 90 ° 50'18 " west longitude and extending 1.57 km ². The town is located 3.2 km west of the Wapsipinicon River, a right tributary of the Mississippi. This is around 55 km to the east and forms the border with Illinois. The Wisconsin border runs around 90 km north. Wheatland is the center of Spring Rock Township in the extreme southwest of Clinton County.

Towns nearby Wheatland are Lowden (9 km west-northwest ), Toronto ( 9.1 km north ) and Calamus (8 km east).

The nearest large towns are Dubuque ( 93.2 km to the north), Rockford, Illinois (199 km ENE ), the Quad Cities (47,8 km southwest) and Cedar Rapids ( 79.1 km WNW ).

Traffic

Along the southern edge of Wheatland leads in west-east direction of the U.S. Highway 30 All other roads are subordinate partly unpaved driveways and local roads.

Parallel to Highway 30 runs a railway line of the Union Pacific Railroad.

The nearest airports are the 35.7 km Located north-east Maquoketa Municipal Airport and 46.6 km to the east Clinton Municipal Airport; the nearest large airport is located 60 km southeast Quad City International Airport.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Wheatland 764 people in 294 households. The population density was 486.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 294 households lived statistically 2.47 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 98.7 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American and 0.1 percent Asian; 0.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

26.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 53.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.0 percent were 65 years or older. 53.1 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was $ 44,722. The per capita income was $ 20,297. 17.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.