Alma Center

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Alma Center
Center of Alma Center
Center of Alma Center
Location in Wisconsin
Alma Center, Wisconsin
Alma Center
Alma Center
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Jackson County
Coordinates : 44 ° 26 ′  N , 90 ° 55 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 26 ′  N , 90 ° 55 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 503 (as of 2010)
Population density : 194.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 2.59 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 299 m
Postal code : 54611
Area code : +1 715
FIPS : 55-01300
GNIS ID : 1560797

Alma Center is a community (with the status " Village ") in Jackson County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 , Alma Center had 503 residents.

geography

Alma Center is located in western Wisconsin, around 80 km east of the Mississippi , which forms the border with Minnesota .

The geographical coordinates of Alma Center are 44 ° 26'14 "north latitude and 90 ° 54'41" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of ​​2.59 km² and is surrounded in the north, east and south by the Town of Alma and in the west by the Town of Garden Valley , without belonging to any of them.

Neighboring towns to Alma Center are Humbird (11.9 km north), Merrillan (6 km east-northeast), Black River Falls (18.8 km south-southeast), Hixton (11.6 km southwest), and Northfield (10.6 km west).

The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (269 km east), Wisconsin's capital Madison (229 km southeast), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (333 km in the same direction), La Crosse on the Mississippi (96 km south-southwest), Rochester , Minnesota (161 km west southwest), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (200 km west northwest), and Eau Claire (69.7 km northwest).

traffic

The Wisconsin State Highway 95 runs in a west-east direction as the main road through Alma Center. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

For freight traffic, a Canadian National Railway runs through Alma Center.

The nearest airports are Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (223 km southeast) and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (219 km west-northwest).

population

According to the 2010 census, the Alma Center lived 503 people in 205 households. The population density was 194.2 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.45 people lived in each of the 205 households.

The racial the population was composed of 92.8 percent white, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian, 0.2 percent Polynesian and 4.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 6.4 percent of the population.

29.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 55.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.9 percent were 65 years or older. 53.9 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 53,333  USD . The per capita income was $ 23,125. 11.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved February 19, 2014
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on February 19, 2014
  3. ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB) Retrieved February 19, 2014

Web links

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