Berry (Wisconsin)

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Berry
Marxville in the Town of Berry
Marxville in the Town of Berry
Location in Wisconsin
Berry (Wisconsin)
Berry
Berry
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Dane County
Coordinates : 43 ° 10 ′  N , 89 ° 40 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 10 ′  N , 89 ° 40 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
Metropolitan Area :
1,127 (as of 2010)
568,593 (as of 2010)
Population density : 12.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 93.2 km 2  (approx. 36 mi 2 )
Height : 293 m
Area code : +1 608
FIPS : 55-07025
GNIS ID : 1582803
Website : www.townofberry.org
Mayor : Anthony Varda (Chairperson)
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Location of the Town of Berry in Dane County

The Town of Berry is one of 34 Towns in Dane County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 the Town of Berry had 1,127 inhabitants.

Town has a fundamentally different meaning in Wisconsin than in the rest of the English-speaking area. Rather, it corresponds to the usual townships in the other US states , which form the next smaller administrative unit after the county .

The area of ​​the Town of Berry is part of the metropolitan area of ​​Madison .

geography

The Town of Berry is located in southern Wisconsin, in the northwest suburb of the capital Madison . The intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, located on the Mississippi , is around 165 km west-northwest; to Illinois it is around 90 km south.

The coordinates of the geographic center of the Town of Berry are 43 ° 09'54 "north latitude and 89 ° 39'47" west longitude. It extends over an area of ​​93.2 km².

The Town of Berry is located in northwest Dane County and borders the following neighboring towns and independent communities:

Town of Roxbury Town of Dane
Town of Mazomanie

Town of Black Earth
Neighboring communities Town of Springfield
Town of Vermont Village of Cross Plains
Town of Cross Plains
Town of Middleton

traffic

The US Highway 14 runs through the southwest of the Town of Berry. Wisconsin State Highway 19 runs through the north in a west-east direction . In addition, the County Highways K and P run through the area of ​​the town. All other roads are subordinate country roads or partly unpaved roads.

A railway line of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad , a regional ( Class II ) freight transport company, runs parallel to US 14 through the southwest of the Town of Berry .

The nearest airport is Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (25 km east).

population

According to the 2010 census , the Town of 472 1,127 people lived in 472 households. The population density was 12.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.39 people lived in each of the 472 households.

The racial the population was composed of 99.1 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.4 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.1 percent of the population.

18.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 66.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.6 percent were 65 years or older. 50.4 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 84,886  USD . The per capita income was $ 38,013. 0.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Localities in the Town of Berry

In addition to scattered settlement, there is also the community-free settlement of Marxville in the Town of Berry .

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved December 9, 2013
  2. Map from Google Maps.Retrieved December 9, 2013

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