Gays Mills
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 Center of Gays Mills |
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| Location in Wisconsin | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Wisconsin | ||
| County : | Crawford County | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 19 ′ N , 90 ° 51 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 491 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 38.7 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 12.69 km 2 (approx. 5 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 214 m | ||
| Postal code : | 54631 | ||
| Area code : | +1 608 | ||
| FIPS : | 55-28450 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1565448 | ||
| Website : | www.gaysmills.org | ||
| Mayor : | Patrick Brockway (President) | ||
 Kickapoo River Museum in Gays Mills |
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Gays Mills is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Crawford County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Gays Mills had 491 residents.
geography
Gays Mills is located in southwest Wisconsin on the Kickapoo River , a right tributary of the Wisconsin River that flows into the Mississippi . The Mississippi border with Iowa is 20.2 km to the west. The Illinois border runs 114 km south.
The geographical coordinates of Gays Mills are 43 ° 19'03 "north latitude and 90 ° 50'41" west longitude. The municipality extends over an area of 12.69 km².
Neighboring towns to Gays Mills are Soldiers Grove (11.9 km northeast), Bell Center (on the southeastern border), Steuben (19.8 km south), Seneca (15.8 km southwest) and Mount Sterling (8.3 km west) ).
The closest major cities are La Crosse (81.8 km northwest), Wisconsin's capital Madison (141 km east-southeast), Rockford , Illinois (236 km southeast), the Quad Cities in Iowa and Illinois (232 km south), and Cedar Rapids , Iowa (207 km south-southwest).
traffic
Wisconsin State Highways 131 and 171 intersect at Gays Mills . All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
The nearest airports are La Crosse Regional Airport (57 miles northwest), Dubuque Regional Airport in Dubuque , Iowa (131 miles south), and Dane County Regional Airport in Wisconsin's capital Madison (150 miles east-southeast).
population
According to the 2010 census , Gays Mills had 491 people in 226 households. The population density was 38.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.17 people lived in each of the 226 households.
The racial the population was composed of 97.1 percent white, 1.4 percent African American and 0.2 percent Native American; 1.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.2 percent of the population.
23.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.2 percent were 65 years or older. 54.2 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 38,750 USD . The per capita income was $ 19,550. 16.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved October 19, 2013
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on October 19, 2013
