Grand Chute

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Grand Chute
The Town Hall of the Town of Grand Chute
The Town Hall of the Town of Grand Chute
Location in Wisconsin
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Basic data
Foundation : April 3, 1849
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Outagamie County
Coordinates : 44 ° 17 ′  N , 88 ° 26 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 17 ′  N , 88 ° 26 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
-  Metropolitan Area :		 20,919 (as of 2010)
367,516 (as of 2010)
Population density : 324.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 64.6 km 2  (approx. 25 mi 2 ) of
which 64.5 km 2  (approx. 25 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 241 m
Postcodes : 54913, 54914
Area code : +1 920
FIPS : 55-30075
GNIS ID : 1583295
Website : www.grandchute.net
Mayor : David A. Schowalter (Chairman)
GrandChuteWisconsinWaterTower.jpg
Town of Grand Chute water tower

The Town of Grand Chute is one of 20 Towns in Outagamie County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 the Town of Grand Chute had 20,919 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 Town of Grand Chute is located in the Fox Cities -called metropolitan area .

In the Town of in is Midwest League playing baseball -Club Wisconsin Timber Rattlers resident, the stadium of the team, the Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium is located in the area of Town of Grand Chute.

geography

The WIS 47 in the Town of Grand Chute

The Town of Grand Chute is located in eastern Wisconsin, in the western and northwestern suburbs of the city of Appleton . In the south, the town reaches the Fox River , which flows into the Green Bay of Lake Michigan around 50 km northeast .

The geographical coordinates of the center of the Town of Grand Chute are 44 ° 16'54 "north latitude and 88 ° 26'17" west longitude. It extends over an area of ​​64.6 km².

The Town of Grand Chute is located in the south of Outagamie County and is bordered by the following neighboring towns and communities:

Town of Ellington Town of Center Town of Freedom
Town of Greenville Neighboring communities Town of Vandenbroek

City of Appleton
Town of Clayton
( Winnebago County ) 		Town of Menasha
(Winnebago County)

traffic

The four-lane US Highway 41 , which forms the northwest bypass of Appleton; runs through the center of the town. The Wisconsin State Highways 15 , 96 and 125 to the West-East lead through the area of the Town of Grand Chute, while the Wisconsin State Highway 47 in the north-south direction through the Northeast. In addition, the County Highways A, E, JJ run through the town, while the County Highway BB forms the southern border. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

A Canadian National Railway (CN) line runs through the area of ​​the Town of Grand Chute in a north-west-south-east direction for freight traffic .

The nearest commercial airports are the Outagamie County Regional Airport (just beyond the western border of the town) and the Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay (around 40 km northeast).

Towns in the Town of Grand Chute

There are no localities within the town; rather, in the course of the development of the city of Appleton, the once rural character of the entire town has changed to a suburban residential area.

population

According to the 2010 census , the Town of Grand Chute had 20,919 people in 9,378 households. The population density was 324.3 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.21 people lived in each of the 9,378 households.

The racial the population was composed of 89.3 percent white, 1.4 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 4.5 percent Asian, 0.1 percent Polynesian and 2.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 4.9 percent of the population.

20.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 65.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.4 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 52,813  USD . The per capita income was $ 32,557. 8.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Known residents

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Government >> Boards & Commissions.Retrieved January 6, 2016
  2. ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved March 26, 2014
  3. ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps on Histopolis.com.Retrieved on March 26, 2014
  4. ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB). Accessed March 26, 2014

Web links

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