Brice Prairie
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Location in Wisconsin
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Wisconsin | ||
| County : | La Crosse County | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 56 ′ N , 91 ° 18 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
1,887 (as of 2010) 133,665 (as of 2010) |
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| Population density : | 161.3 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 11.7 km 2 (approx. 5 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 202 m | ||
| Postal code : | 54650 | ||
| Area code : | +1 608 | ||
| FIPS : | 55-09465 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1867653 | ||
Brice Prairie is a settlement on community-free area in La Crosse County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . For statistical purposes, the place has been combined to form a census-designated place (CDP) . In 2010 Brice Prairie had 1,887 residents.
Brice Prairie is part of the interstate metropolitan area of La Crosse Metropolitan Area .
geography
Brice Prairie is located in western Wisconsin, at the mouth of the Black River in the Lake Onalaska pent Mississippi , the border with Minnesota forms. The intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa is located on the Mississippi and is 35 miles south.
Brice Prairie is located in the Ice Age-shaped 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.
The geographical coordinates of Brice Prairie are 43 ° 56'19 "north latitude and 91 ° 18'00" west longitude. The place extends over an area of 11.7 km² and is part of the Town of Onalaska .
Neighboring towns of Brice Prairie are Holmen (9.2 km northeast) and Onalaska (10 km southeast). Dakota is on the opposite bank of the Mississippi in Minnesota but is 16 miles away by land.
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (329 km east-northeast), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (341 km east-southeast), Wisconsin's capital Madison (234 km southeast), Rockford in Illinois (340 km in the same direction), the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa (327 km southeast), Cedar Rapids , Iowa (277 km southwest), Rochester , Minnesota (130 km west), and the Twin Cities , Minnesota (150 km northwest).
traffic
The four-lane US Highway 53 runs not far from the northeastern border. The Wisconsin State Highway 35 leads in less than a kilometer distance to Brice Prairie over. The county highways Z, ZB, ZM and ZN run through the village. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
A railroad line of the BNSF Railway , the second largest railway company in the country, runs along the Mississippi along the eastern outskirts for freight traffic .
The nearest airport is La Crosse Regional Airport , which is 17.6 km south.
population
According to the 2010 census , Brice Prairie had 1,887 people in 704 households. The population density was 161.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.68 people lived in each of the 704 households.
The racial the population was composed of 97.6 percent white, 0.6 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.5 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 1.3 percent of the population, regardless of ethnicity.
25.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 65.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 9.1 percent were 65 years or older. 47.7 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 78,125 USD . The per capita income was $ 30,660. 3.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved January 14, 2014
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on January 14, 2014