Chilton, Wisconsin
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 Calumet County Courthouse in Chilton |
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| Foundation : | 1845 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Wisconsin | ||
| County : | Calumet County | ||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 2 ′ N , 88 ° 10 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 3,933 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 389.4 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 10.1 km 2 (approx. 4 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 275 m | ||
| Postal code : | 53014 | ||
| Area code : | +1 920 | ||
| FIPS : | 55-14475 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1563022 | ||
| Website : | www.chilton.govoffice.com | ||
| Mayor : | Gerald Vanne | ||
 Chilton Administrative Center and Town House |
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Chilton is a small town (with the status " City ") and the administrative seat of Calumet County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Chilton had 3933 residents.
geography
Chilton is in eastern Wisconsin, on the southern arm of the Manitowoc River . The city is located around 10 km east of Lake Winnebago , 40 km west of Lake Michigan and 60 km south of the mouth of the Fox River in Green Bay, which is also part of Lake Michigan . The geographical coordinates of Chilton are 44 ° 01'51 "north latitude and 88 ° 09'31" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 10.1 km².
Neighboring towns of Chilton are Hilbert (12.4 km north), Potter (15.5 km north-northeast), St. Nazianz (13.7 km east), New Holstein (11.9 km south-east), St. Cloud (24, 5 miles south), Brothertown (10 miles southwest), Stockbridge (9 miles west-northwest).
The closest major cities are Green Bay (58.8 km north), Milwaukee (124 km south), Chicago (269 km in the same direction), Wisconsin's capital Madison (163 km southwest), Eau Claire (331 km west-northwest), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (478 km in the same direction) and Duluth on Lake Superior , Minnesota (565 km northwest).
traffic
In the urban area of Chilton, US Highway 151 and Wisconsin State Highways 32 and 57 meet. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
By Chilton a railway line of today to lead Canadian National Railway belonging Wisconsin Central .
With the New Holstein Municipal Airport there is a small airfield 12 km south-southeast. The nearest commercial airports are Outagamie County Regional Airport (33 miles northwest) and Austin Straubel International Airport at Green Bay (38 miles north). The nearest major airports are Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee (137 miles south), O'Hare International Airport in Chicago (150 miles in the same direction), and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (481 miles west).
history
The first residents came in January 1845. A sawmill and a gristmill formed a settlement called Stantonville . In 1852 a new land buyer named the area Chilington in memory of his hometown Chilington , England. He sent an oral notification of the name change to the administration. Since three letters were accidentally left out in the middle of the name, the parish is still called Chilton to this day.
The Chilton Post Office , built in 1940, is now a listed building.
population
According to the 2010 census , Chilton had 3933 people in 1687 households. The population density was 389.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.28 people lived in each of the 1687 households.
The racial the population was composed of 95.8 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian, 0.2 percent Polynesian and 2.0 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 4.3 percent of the population.
24.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.5 percent were 65 years or older. 51.7 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 46,094 USD . The per capita income was $ 25,802. 19.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Known residents
- Thomas PM Barnett (born 1962), researcher in the field of military strategy (born in Chilton)
- Francis Peter Leipzig (1895–1981), Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop of the Baker diocese from 1950 to 1971 (born in Chilton)
- Thomas Lynch (1844–1898), Member of the US House of Representatives (lived in Chilton for many years)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved September 7, 2013
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed September 7, 2013
- ↑ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 00001249.Retrieved September 6, 2013
