Blair (Wisconsin)
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Wisconsin | ||
| County : | Trempealeau County | ||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 18 ′ N , 91 ° 14 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 1,366 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 425.5 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 3.21 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 260 m | ||
| Postal code : | 54616 | ||
| Area code : | +1 608 | ||
| FIPS : | 55-08075 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1561910 | ||
| Website : | cityofblair.org | ||
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Blair is a small town (with the status " City ") in Trempealeau County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Blair had 1,366 inhabitants.
geography
Blair is located in western Wisconsin on Trempealeau River , the south-southwest around 45 km away in the border with Minnesota forming Mississippi flows. On the northern edge of Blair is Lake Henry, a reservoir of the Tempealeau River.
Blair is located in the Ice Age-formed region called the Driftless Area , which stretches across southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa, and far northwestern Illinois. During the last ice age, the so-called Wisconsin Glaciation , the region remained ice-free, so that the river valleys could cut deeper into the plateau during this time as well.
The geographical coordinates of Blair are 44 ° 17'40 "north latitude and 91 ° 14'07" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 3.21 km² and is completely surrounded by the Town of Preston without belonging to it.
Blair's neighbors are Taylor (11.7 km east-northeast), Ettrick (16 km south) and Whitehall (13 km north-west).
The closest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (297 km east), Wisconsin's capital Madison (246 km southeast), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (353 km in the same direction), La Crosse on the Mississippi (68 km south), Rochester , Minnesota (129 km west-southwest), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (202 km west-northwest) and Eau Claire (79 km north-northwest).
traffic
US Highway 53 runs past Blair on the southwestern outskirts of the city . From this the Wisconsin State Highway 95 branches off to the northeast and runs as the main road through the city. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
A Canadian National Railway freight railroad runs through Blair along the Trempealeau River .
The nearest airports are La Crosse Regional Airport (65.5 km south) and Chippewa Valley Regional Airport (84.2 km north-northwest).
population
According to the 2010 census , Blair had 1,366 people in 571 households. The population density was 425.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.27 people lived in each of the 571 households.
The racial the population was composed of 96.6 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.1 percent (two people) Asian and 1.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 3.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 53.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 22.5 percent were 65 years or older. 52.9 percent of the population were female.
The average annual income for a household was 38,456 USD . The per capita income was $ 19,716. 8.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder.Retrieved September 2, 2014
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on September 2, 2014
- ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB) Retrieved September 2, 2014
