Whitestown, Wisconsin
Vernon County
55-86900
The Town of Whitestown is one of 21 Towns in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, the Town of Whitestown 502 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 Whitestown is located in southwestern Wisconsin and is drained by 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 80 km west-southwest.
The Town of Whitestown 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 Whitestown are 43 ° 40'43 " north latitude and 90 ° 36'32 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 90.7 km ².
The Town of Whitestown is located in the northeast of Vernon County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns and independent municipalities:
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 131 leads in a north-south direction through the Town of Whitestown; through the North East leads the Wisconsin State Highway 33 also still lead the County Highways F and P by 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 ( 75 km west-northwest ), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota ( about 185 km to the west ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Wisconsin's capital, Madison ( about 155 km south-east ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Whitestown 502 people in 193 households. The population density was 5.5 people per square kilometer. In the 193 households lived statistically 2.6 persons each.
Ethnically, the population consisted with four exceptions only from whites. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
26.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.5 percent were 65 years or older. 46.8 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 51,429. The per capita income was $ 20,199. 32.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Villages in the Town of Whitestown
In addition to scattered settlements exist in the Town of Whitestown with Rockton still unincorporated settlement.