Camp Douglas, Wisconsin

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Camp Douglas
Camp Douglas, Wisconsin
Camp Douglas
Camp Douglas
Location in Wisconsin
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Juneau County
Coordinates : 43 ° 55 ′  N , 90 ° 16 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 55 ′  N , 90 ° 16 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 601 (as of 2010)
Population density : 229.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 2.62 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 286 m
Postal code : 54618
Area code : +1 608
FIPS : 55-12350
GNIS ID : 1562599
Website : www.campdouglaswi.com
Mayor : Earl Ells (President)

Camp Douglas is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Juneau County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 , Camp Douglas had 601 residents.

The Volk Field Air National Guard Base is a base of both the Air National Guard and the Army National Guard of Wisconsin, about one kilometer from the northern city limit .

geography

Camp Douglas is located in southwest central Wisconsin at 43 ° 55'21 "north latitude and 90 ° 16'17" west longitude. The municipality extends over an area of ​​2.62 km² and is completely enclosed by the Town of Orange without belonging to it.

Neighboring towns to Camp Douglas are Necedah (28 km northeast), New Lisbon (10.4 km southeast), Hustler (6 km south), Oakdale (9.9 km northwest), and Wyeville (19.4 km in the same direction).

The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (150 miles east-northeast), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (150 miles east-southeast), Wisconsin's capital Madison (139 km southwest), La Crosse on the Mississippi (89.5 km west) and Eau Claire (163 km northwest).

traffic

The Interstate Highways 90 and 94 run on a common stretch of road along the northeastern local border. The US Highway 12 and the Wisconsin State Highway 16 running on a section of track shared as the main road through the center of Camp Douglas. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

Two railway lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) meet in the city area for freight traffic .

The nearest commercial airports are La Crosse Regional Airport (86.8 km west), Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (134 km southeast), and Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee (252 km east-southeast).

population

According to the 2010 census , Camp Douglas had 601 people in 244 households. The population density was 229.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.46 people lived in each of the 244 households.

The racial the population was composed of 97.5 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.8 percent of the population.

27.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.3 percent were 65 years or older. 52.6 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 37,188  USD . The per capita income was $ 21,581. 9.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved March 3, 2014
  2. ^ Volk Field. Retrieved March 3, 2014
  3. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed March 3, 2014
  4. ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB). Accessed March 3, 2014

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