Whitewater (Wisconsin)
Walworth County Jefferson County
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Whitewater is a city ( with a status of "City" ) in Walworth County and to a lesser extent in Jefferson County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Whitewater had 14,390 inhabitants.
In Whitewater is a campus of the State University of Wisconsin.
Geography
Whitewater is located in the central southeastern Wisconsin at Bark River, heard about the Rock River to the basin of the Mississippi.
The geographical coordinates of 42 ° 50'01 Whitewater are " north latitude and 88 ° 43'56 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 23.47 km ².
Neighboring towns of Whitewater are Hebron (12 km north-northeast ), Palmyra (16 km east-northeast ), Elkhorn (29 km southeast), Milton (21,6 km WSW ) Lake Koshkonong (17 km north-west ), Fort Atkinson (15,6 km north-northwest ) and Jefferson (22,1 km in the same direction).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (228 km north- north-east ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee ( 81.5 km ENE ), Chicago, Illinois (172 km southeast), Rockford, Illinois (82 km SSW ) and Wisconsin's capital Madison (72 4 km west-northwest ).
Traffic
The four-lane U.S. Highway 12 forms the south-eastern and southern ring road of Whitewater. In the urban area, the Wisconsin State Routes 59 and 89 meet together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Through the city runs a range of Wisconsin and Southern Railroad, which runs from the Mississippi River on Madison to Milwaukee for freight traffic.
With the Fort Atkinson Municipal Airport is located 20 km north-northeast a small airfield. The next airports are the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison ( 71.7 km to the northwest ) and the General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee ( 77.4 km ENE ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Whitewater 14,390 people in 4766 households. The population density was 613.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 4766 households lived statistically 2.28 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 88.0 percent white, 3.5 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 1.9 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 4.5 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 1.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 9.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
21.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 69.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 8.4 percent were 65 years or older. 49.3 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 29,286. The per capita income was $ 17,316. 34.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Peter Barrett (1935-2000) Professor of Economics - taught from 1985 to 1997 at the University of Whitewater
- Tom Hulce ( born 1953 ) - actor - born in Whitewater
- Warren S. Johnson (1847-1911) - inventor - taught for several years at the State Normal School in Whitewater
- Mark Neumann ( * 1954) - Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1995-1999) - studied in Whitewater