Belmont (Village, Wisconsin)

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Belmont
Belmont, Wisconsin
Belmont
Belmont
Location in Wisconsin
Basic data
Foundation : 1835
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Lafayette County
Coordinates : 42 ° 44 ′  N , 90 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 44 ′  N , 90 ° 20 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 986 (as of 2010)
Population density : 432.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 2.28 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 327 m
Postal code : 53510
Area code : +1 608
FIPS : 55-06425
GNIS ID : 1561546
Website : www.belmontwi.com

Belmont is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Lafayette County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Belmont had 986 inhabitants.

geography

Belmont is located in southwest Wisconsin, around 40 km east of the Mississippi , which forms the border with Iowa . The Illinois border runs 30 km south of Belmont. The geographical coordinates of Belmont are 42 ° 44'10 "north latitude and 90 ° 20'03" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of ​​2.28 km².

Neighboring towns are Mineral Point (20.9 km northeast), Calamine (15.4 km east), Darlington (23.8 km east-southeast), Shullsburg (27.1 km south-southeast), Benton (22.8 km south), Cuba City (19.8 km south-southwest), Platteville (12.2 km west) and Rewey (16 km north-northwest).

The nearest major cities are La Crosse (178 km north-northwest), Wisconsin's capital Madison (103 km east-northeast), Rockford in Illinois (143 km east-southeast), the Quad Cities in Iowa and Illinois (161 km south) and Dubuque in Iowa (47, 2 km west-southwest).

traffic

The US Highway 151 runs through the north-east of Belmont. The Wisconsin State Highways 126 runs in a north-south direction as the main road through the center of Belmont. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

The nearest airports are Dubuque Regional Airport (60 km west-southwest) and Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (121 km east-northeast).

population

According to the 2010 census , Belmont had 986 people in 439 households. The population density was 432.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.25 people lived in each of the 439 households.

The racial the population was composed of 98.8 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.2 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.7 percent of the population.

23.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.0 percent were 65 years or older. 52.8 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 44,688  USD . The per capita income was $ 21,401. 9.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved September 16, 2013
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on September 16, 2013

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