Friendship (Wisconsin)

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Friendship (Wisconsin)
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Basic data
Foundation : 1907
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Adams County
Coordinates : 43 ° 58 ′  N , 89 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 58 ′  N , 89 ° 49 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 725 (as of 2010)
Population density : 304.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 2.38 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 290 m
Postcodes : 53934
Area code : +1 608
FIPS : 55-27950
GNIS ID : 1583248
Mayor : Tony Sleeman (President)
Adams County Wisconsin Courthouse.jpg
The Adams County Courthouse in Friendship, built in 1914 in neoclassical style, listed in the NRHP since 1982

Friendship is a municipality (with the status " Village ") and the administrative seat of Adams County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Friendship had 725 residents.

geography

Friendship is located in central Wisconsin on the southwestern shore of Friendship Lake at latitude 43 ° 58 'north and longitude 89 ° 49' west. The place extends over an area of ​​2.38 km².

Neighboring places to Friendship are Adams (on the southern city limits), Dellwood (11.3 km west), Arkdale (11.7 km northwest) and Coloma (29.7 km east-northeast).

The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (195 km east-northeast), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (235 km southeast), Wisconsin's capital Madison (128 km south-southeast), Chicago in Illinois (349 km in the same direction), Rockford in Illinois ( 230 km south), Rochester , Minnesota (150 km west), Eau Claire (190 km west-northwest), and the Twin Cities , Minnesota (337 km in the same direction).

traffic

The State Trunk Highway 13 runs in a north-south direction as the main road through Friendship. All other roads are subordinate country roads, partly unpaved roads or inner-city connecting roads.

The Adams County Legion Field Airport is located 2.2 km east-southeast, a small airfield. The nearest regional airports are Central Wisconsin Airport in Wausau (103 km north) and Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (121 km south-southeast).

population

According to the 2010 census , there were 725 people in 256 households in Friendship. The population density was 304.6 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.29 people lived in each of the 256 households.

The racial the population was composed of 95.0 percent white, 1.9 percent African American, 0.1 percent (one person) Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and 1.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 4.0 percent of the population regardless of ethnicity.

18.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 27.0 percent were 65 years or older. 49.8 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 46,389  USD . The per capita income was $ 17,805. 23.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. US Postal Service - ZIP Codes
  2. Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 12, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.areacodedownload.com
  3. ^ Website of the county, list of the employees of the village administration ( Memento of the original from November 21, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.co.adams.wi.gov
  4. Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 82000627.Retrieved August 5, 2013
  5. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved August 5, 2013
  6. Distance information according to Google Maps. Retrieved on August 5, 2013
  7. AirNav.com - Adams County Legion Field Airport Retrieved on August 5, 2013

Web links

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