Baraboo
| City of Baraboo | |||
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 Baraboo city center |
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| Location in Wisconsin | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1838 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Wisconsin | ||
| County : | Sauk County | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 28 ′ N , 89 ° 44 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 12,048 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 622.6 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 19.35 km 2 (approx. 7 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 269 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 53913 | ||
| Area code : | +1 608 | ||
| FIPS : | 55-04625 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1582749 | ||
| Website : | www.cityofbaraboo.com | ||
| Mayor : | Mike Palm | ||
 Former winter quarters of the Ringling Brothers Circus (now part of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ), listed in the NRHP since 1969 |
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Baraboo is a city (with the status of City ) and the administrative seat of Sauk County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 , Baraboo had 12,048 residents, which increased to 12,100 by 2013. This makes Baraboo the largest city in Sauk County.
Baraboo is the headquarters of the International Crane Foundation , a scientific organization dedicated to the study and protection of the 15 species of crane .
geography
Baraboo is located in central southwest Wisconsin on both sides of the Baraboo River , which is part of the Mississippi River basin across the Wisconsin River .
The geographical coordinates of Baraboo are 43 ° 28'07 "north latitude and 89 ° 44'29" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 19.35 km² and is almost completely surrounded by the Town of Baraboo without belonging to it.
Neighboring towns to Baraboo are Lake Delton (11 miles north), Wisconsin Dells (13 miles north), Merrimac (10 miles southeast), Bluffview (8.5 miles south), Prairie du Sac (16 miles south) , West Baraboo (on the western city limits), North Freedom (8.1 miles west), and Rock Springs (9.4 miles west).
The nearest major cities are La Crosse (159 km west-northwest), Eau Claire (221 km northwest), Wausau (196 km north), Appleton (170 km northeast), Green Bay on Lake Michigan (218 km northeast), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee ( 192 km east-southeast), Wisconsin's capital city, Madison (68.4 km southeast), Rockford , Illinois (172 km in the same direction), and Cedar Rapids , Iowa (282 km southwest).
traffic
The four-lane US Highway 12 runs north-south through the west of the urban area of Baraboo. Wisconsin State Highways 33 , 113 and 123 also meet in the center of Baraboo. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
In a northwest-southeast direction runs a freight railroad line of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad (WSOR) through the metropolitan area of Baraboo.
With the Baraboo – Wisconsin Dells Airport there is a small airfield 9.6 km north-northwest. The nearest commercial airports are La Crosse Regional Airport (160 km west-northwest), Dubuque Regional Airport in Dubuque , Iowa (179 km south-southwest) and Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (73.7 km southeast).
history
The area now known as Baraboo was first settled by Abe Wood in 1838 and was known as "Adams Village". In 1846 it became the seat of the administration of Sauk County . In 1852 it was renamed "Baraboo". This name has been in official use since 1882.
Because of its location near the Baraboo and Wisconsin Rivers , there were several sawmills at the beginning of the city's history. In the 19th century, the city was the headquarters of several circuses , including the Ringling Brothers Circus , and was widely known as Circus City .
Baraboo is the namesake for the Baraboo Syncline , a doubly compressed, asymmetrical syncline from the Proterozoic and the Baraboo quartzite mined there . The nearby Baraboo Hills are listed as one of the Last Great Places 'one of the last special places' by the conservation organization The Nature Conservancy because of their unique rock formations, plants and wildlife .
population
According to the 2010 census , Baraboo had 12,048 people in 5161 households. The population density was 622.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.26 people lived in each of the 5161 households.
The racial the population was composed of 94.0 percent white, 1.3 percent African American, 1.0 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian, 0.1 percent Polynesian and 1.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 3.7 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.
23.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.6 percent were 65 years or older. 50.9 percent of the population were female.
The average annual income for a household was 47,886 USD . The per capita income was $ 23,338. 10.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
People who are associated with the city
- Tiny Cahoon , football player in the NFL ,
- John J. Jenkins (1843–1911), Delegate for Wisconsin to the US House of Representatives ,
- Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), forest scientist , wildlife biologist , hunter and ecologist , is considered one of the founders of the nature conservation movement,
- Daryl Morey , General Manager of the Houston Rockets ,
- John Ringling North , owner of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ,
- Bradbury Robinson , thrower of the first legal forward pass in American football history.
- May Wood Simons (1876–1948), suffragette and author
Individual evidence
- ↑ US Postal Service - ZIP Codes
- ↑ City of Baraboo - Mayor an Council
- ↑ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 69000032.Retrieved August 18, 2014
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved August 18, 2014
- ↑ US Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts - Baraboo, Wisconsin ( August 9, 2014 memento on the Internet Archive ). Retrieved August 18, 2014
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on August 18, 2014
- ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB) Retrieved August 18, 2014
- ↑ AirNav.com - Baraboo-Wisconsin Dells Airport Accessed on August 18, 2014
- ^ William J. Anderson, William A. Anderson: The Wisconsin blue book, 1929. Democrat Printing Company, State Printer 1929, p. 629. ( Online version )
- ^ County Government: Why Adams County? In: Adams County Historical Society (Ed.): From Past to Present: Adams County . New Past Press, Friendship 1999, pp. 58 (English, wi.us [PDF; 4.8 MB ]).
- ^ Circus World World Museum.Retrieved August 18, 2014
- ↑ The Nature Conservancy - Wisconsin ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 18, 2014
