Chippewa Falls
| Chippewa Falls | |||
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 Center of Chippewa Falls |
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| Location in Wisconsin | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1869 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Wisconsin | ||
| County : | Chippewa County | ||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 56 ′ N , 91 ° 24 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 13,661 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 486.2 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 29.5 km 2 (about 11 mi 2 ) of which 28.1 km 2 (about 11 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 256 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 54729 | ||
| Area code : | +1 715 | ||
| FIPS : | 55-14575 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1563041 | ||
| Website : | www.ci.chippewa-falls.wi.us | ||
| Mayor : | Greg Hoffman | ||
 The Cook Rutledge mansion at Chippewa Falls is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . |
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Chippewa Falls is a city (with a status of " City ") and the administrative seat of Chippewa County , Wisconsin . In 2010 , Chippewa Falls was the largest city in Chippewa County and had 13,661 residents.
Chippewa Falls is one of the two core cities of the Metropolitan Statistical Area Eau Claire – Chippewa Falls .
Surname
The place is on the Chippewa River . The name of the river is derived from the tribe of the Ojibwa , the indigenous people living there . The first settlers gave the name "Ojibwa" as "Chippewa".
geography
Chippewa Falls is located in western Wisconsin on both sides of the Chippewa River. This flows 95 km south-west in the border with Minnesota forming Mississippi . The geographic coordinates of Chippewa Falls are 44 ° 56 'north latitude and 91 ° 23' west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 29.5 km² at an altitude of 256 meters above sea level.
Neighboring locations are Eagle Point (11.7 km north), Jim Falls (12 miles northeast), Lake Wissota (8.5 km east), Cadott (14 miles in the same direction), Fall Creek (28.9 km southeast), Altoona (12 miles south) and Lake Hallie (on the southern city limits).
The closest major cities are Green Bay (293 km east), Wisconsin's capital Madison (307 km southeast), La Crosse (155 km south), Eau Claire (19.5 km southwest), Rochester , Minnesota (168 km in the same direction ), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (157 km west) and Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (235 km north).
traffic
Wisconsin Highways 124 and 178 run through Chippewa Falls . The US Highway 53 crosses the south-western outskirts of the Wisconsin Highway 124 .
The city is on the railway network of the Canadian National Railway belonging Wisconsin Central tethered.
The Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire is eight kilometers southwest of the city.
history
Around 1700, the French explorer Pierre-Charles Le Sueur discovered the Chippewa spring near the river.
Chippewa Falls was initially a woodworking center that became a railroad town, although the main route of the rail network in the 1870s ran through Eau Claire, about 15 km south. In 1870 the West Wisconsin Railway built a route from Saint Paul , Minnesota to Milwaukee through the Eau Claire area. Thereupon the Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls Railway laid a railway line from Eau Claire to Chippewa Falls.
In 1887 the politician Thaddeus C. Pound founded the "Chippewa Springs Health Club". Pound also headed the company that began bottling the spring water for sale.
population
According to the 2010 census , Chippewa Falls had 13,661 people in 5,896 households. The population density was 486.2 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.18 people lived in each of the 5896 households.
The racial the population was composed of 95.1 percent white, 1.7 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.9 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.6 percent of the population.
22.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.4 percent were 65 years or older. 49.3 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 38,919 USD . The per capita income was $ 23,885. 14.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
People associated with the city
- Ruth French Carnovsky (1906–2003), philologist and librarian
- Seymour Cray (1925–1996), first successful architect for supercomputers , founder of Cray Research ,
- Gus Dorais (1891–1954), University of Notre Dame quarterback , Detroit Lions chief coach ,
- Judy Henske (* 1936), singer and songwriter,
- Howard Luedtke , blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and member of the "Blue Max" band
- Thaddeus C. Pound (1833–1914), Vice Governor of Wisconsin, Delegate for Wisconsin to the US House of Representatives and President of the Chippewa Falls and Western Railway,
- Eddy Waller (1889–1977), actor in more than 250 films,
- Alexander Wiley (1884–1967), US Senator for the State of Wisconsin between 1939 and 1963 .
- Jack Dawson, fictional character from the movie Titanic (1997)
Individual evidence
- ↑ US Postal Service - ZIP Codes
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Website of the city, picture of the department head of the city administration ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ National Directory of Historic Places, entries for Wisconsin, Chippewa County, entry # 74000060
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved September 22, 2013
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on September 22, 2013
