Appleton, Wisconsin

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Appleton
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Downtown Appleton
Location in Wisconsin
Appleton, Wisconsin
Appleton
Appleton
Basic data
Foundation : 1835 (settled)
1857 (incorporated)
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
Counties : Outagamie County
Calumet County
Winnebago County
Coordinates : 44 ° 16 ′  N , 88 ° 25 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 16 ′  N , 88 ° 25 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
-  Metropolitan Area :		 74,370 (as of 2016)
234,079 (as of 2016)
Population density : 1,374.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 55.3 km 2  (approx. 21 mi 2 ) of
which 54.1 km 2  (approx. 21 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 241 m
Postcodes : 54911, 54913, 54915
Area code : +1 920
FIPS : 55-02375
GNIS ID : 1560914
Website : www.appleton.org
Mayor : Timothy M. Hanna
OutagamieCountyWisconsinCourthouse.jpg
The Outagamie County Courthouse in Appleton

Appleton is a city (with the status " City ") and the administrative seat of Outagamie County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In the south, the urban area extends into the Calumet and Winnebago Counties . In 2010 , Appleton had 72,623 residents, which increased to 74,370 by 2016.

Appleton is next to Oshkosh one of the two core cities in the Fox Cities -called metropolitan area .

geography

Appleton is located in eastern Wisconsin, on both sides of the Fox River , around 50 km below Green Bay . There the river flows into Green Bay , part of Lake Michigan . The geographical coordinates of Appleton are 44 ° 15'44 "north latitude and 88 ° 24'54" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of ​​55.3 km², which is spread over 54.1 km² of land and 1.2 km² of water.

Neighboring locations to Appleton are Little Chute and Kimberly (on the eastern city limits), Harrison (on the southeastern city limits), Menasha (on the southeastern city limits), Greenville (12.4 km northwest).

The closest major cities to Green Bay are Milwaukee (173 km south), Chicago (315 km in the same direction), Wisconsin's capital Madison (171 km southwest), Eau Claire (294 km west), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (441 km in the same direction) and Duluth on Lake Superior , Minnesota (528 km northwest).

economy

The largest employers in Appleton in 2017 were:

employer Workers
Affinity Health Sys./ St. Elizabeth Hospital 5,228
Thrivent Investment Management, Inc. 1,800
Appleton Area School District 1,563
Miller Electric Manufacturing 1,390
Outagamie County 1,250
Appleton Medical Center 1,184
Appvion, Inc. 1,000
West Business Services 1,000
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. 1,000
Valley Packaging Industries, Inc. 750

Next is located in Appleton, a paper mill from Neenah Paper .

traffic

The Fox River is navigable through dams and locks for barges that can reach the Mississippi river basin between the port of Green Bay via the Fox – Wisconsin Waterway .

The four-lane US Highway 41 and the four-lane Wisconsin State Highway 441 form a ring-shaped bypass around the center of Appleton. In the south, the urban area is touched by US Highway 10 . Wisconsin State Highways 47 , 96 and 125 also meet in the city . All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

Appleton several railway lines meet today to Canadian National Railway belonging Wisconsin Central together.

The Outagamie County Regional Airport is 9.1 km west of Wisconsin's fourth-largest commercial airport in terms of passenger volume. The nearest major airports are Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee (183 km south), O'Hare International Airport in Chicago (295 km in the same direction) and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (440 km west).

population

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1860 2345 -
1870 4518 92.7%
1880 8005 77.2%
1890 11,869 48.3%
1900 15,085 27.1%
1910 16,773 11.2%
1920 19,561 16.6%
1930 25,267 29.2%
1940 28,436 12.5%
1950 34,010 19.6%
1960 48,411 42.3%
1970 56,377 16.5%
1980 58,913 4.5%
1990 65,695 11.5%
2000 70.087 6.7%
2010 72,623 3.6%
2016 estimate 74,370 2.4%
1860-2000 2010-2016

As of the 2010 census , Appleton had 72,623 people in 28,874 households. The population density was 1,342.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.43 people lived in the 28,874 households.

The racial the population was composed of 87.5 percent white, 1.7 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 5.9 percent Asian and 2.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.0 percent of the population.

25.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 63.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 11.3 percent were 65 years or older. 50.5 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 52,183  USD . The per capita income was $ 27,179. 10.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Known residents

education

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved September 6, 2013
  2. ↑ a b U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 6, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / quickfacts.census.gov
  3. ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on September 6, 2013
  4. ↑ Comprehensive Annual Report - City of Appleton - 2017 , at www.appleton.org , accessed September 14, 2018
  5. ↑ AirNav.com - Outagamie County Regional Airport Retrieved on September 6, 2013
  6. ↑ Airports with 5-Year Forecast Activity and Development Cost (PDF; 2.1 MB) ( Memento from September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on August 28, 2013
  7. ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved September 6, 2013

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