Clyde (Town, Iowa County)

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Clyde
Clyde, Wisconsin
Clyde
Clyde
Location in Wisconsin
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Iowa County
Coordinates : 43 ° 8 ′  N , 90 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 8 ′  N , 90 ° 13 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
Metropolitan Area :
306 (as of 2010)
568,593 (as of 2010)
Population density : 3.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 89.7 km 2  (approx. 35 mi 2 ) of
which 88.4 km 2  (approx. 34 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 276 m
Area code : +1 608
FIPS : 55-15875
GNIS ID : 1582990
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Location of the Town of Clyde in Iowa County

The Town of Clyde is one of 14 Towns in Iowa County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 the Town of Clyde had 306 residents.

Town has a fundamentally different meaning in Wisconsin than in the rest of the English-speaking area. Rather, it corresponds to the usual townships in the other US states , which form the next smaller administrative unit after the county .

The area of ​​the Town of Clyde is part of the metropolitan area of ​​Madison .

geography

The Town of Clyde is located in southwest Wisconsin on the south bank of the Wisconsin River , a left tributary of the Mississippi . The intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, located on the Mississippi, is around 120 km to the northwest; to Illinois it is around 80 km south.

The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Clyde are 43 ° 07'53 "north latitude and 90 ° 13'12" west longitude. It extends over an area of ​​89.7 km², which is spread over 88.4 km² of land and 1.3 km² of water.

The Town of Clyde is located in northern Iowa County and is bordered by the following neighboring towns:

Town of Buena Vista
( Richland County )
Town of Spring Green
( Sauk County )
Town of Pulaski Neighboring communities Town of Wyoming
Town of Highland Town of Dodgeville

traffic

The Wisconsin State Highway 133 , which runs along the Wisconsin River, runs through the town in a west-east direction. From this the Wisconsin State Highway 130 branches off to the south. In addition, the County Highways C, I and N run through the area of ​​the Town of Clyde. All other roads are subordinate country roads and partly unpaved roads.

A railroad line of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad runs along the Wisconsin River for freight traffic , which runs from the Mississippi to Madison and from there to Milwaukee .

The nearest airports are Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa (around 110 km south-southwest), Dane County Regional Airport in Wisconsin's capital Madison (around 90 km east) and Chicago Rockford International Airport (around 170 km south-east).

population

According to the 2010 census , the Town of Clyde had 306 people in 124 households. The population density was 3.5 people per square kilometer. Statistically, there were 2.47 people each in the 124 households.

Ethnically, the population consisted only of whites with six exceptions. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.9 percent of the population.

23.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.0 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 54,141  USD . The per capita income was $ 26,937. 22.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Towns in the Town of Clyde

In addition to scattered settlement, there is also a community-free settlement in the Town of Clyde with Clyde .

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved November 13, 2013
  2. Map from Google Maps on Histopolis.com.Retrieved November 13, 2013

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