Fall Creek, Wisconsin

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Fall Creek
Fall Creek, Wisconsin
Fall Creek
Fall Creek
Location in Wisconsin
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Eau Claire County
Coordinates : 44 ° 46 ′  N , 91 ° 17 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 46 ′  N , 91 ° 17 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 1,315 (as of 2010)
Population density : 243.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 5.41 km 2  (about 2 mi 2 )
Height : 286 m
Postal code : 54742
Area code : +1 715,534
FIPS : 55-25125
GNIS ID : 1564839
Website : www.fallcreekwi.gov/wordpress
Mayor : Len Madsen (President)

Fall Creek is a municipality (with the status of Village ) in Eau Claire County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . At the 2010 census , Fall Creek had 1,315 residents.

geography

Fall Creek is located in northwestern Wisconsin, not far from the Eau Claire River , which is part of the Mississippi River basin over the Chippewa River .

The geographical coordinates of Fall Creek are 44 ° 45'49 "north latitude and 91 ° 16'38" west longitude. The parish extends over an area of ​​5.41 km² and is completely surrounded by the Town of Lincoln without belonging to it.

Neighboring towns to Fall Creek are Lake Wissota (17 miles north), Augusta (10 miles southeast), Osseo ( 16 miles south), and Eau Claire (12 miles west).

The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (300 km east), Wisconsin's capital Madison (276 km southeast), La Crosse (137 km south-southwest), Rochester , Minnesota (161 km southwest) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (169 km west ).

traffic

The US Highway 12 runs from west to east direction as the main road through Fall Creek. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

A Union Pacific Railroad runs parallel to US 12 through the Fall Creek parish.

The nearest airport is Chippewa Valley Regional Airport (15 miles west-northwest).

population

According to the 2010 census , Fall Creek had 1,315 people in 517 households. The population density was 243.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.44 people lived in each of the 517 households.

The racial the population was composed of 97.9 percent white, 0.1 percent (one person) African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.8 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 0.2 percent of the population.

26.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.2 percent were 65 years or older. 54.4 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 50,625  USD . The per capita income was $ 22,672. 9.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved January 31, 2014
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed January 31, 2014

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