Johnson Creek

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Johnson Creek
Johnson Creek water tower
Johnson Creek water tower
Location in Wisconsin
Johnson Creek, Wisconsin
Johnson Creek
Johnson Creek
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Jefferson County
Coordinates : 43 ° 5 ′  N , 88 ° 46 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 5 ′  N , 88 ° 46 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 2,738 (as of 2010)
Population density : 348.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 7.85 km 2  (approx. 3 mi 2 )
Height : 253 m
Postal code : 53038
Area code : +1 920
FIPS : 55-38350
GNIS ID : 1567212
Website : www.johnsoncreek-wi.us
Mayor : Greg Schopp (President)

Johnson Creek is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in the Jefferson County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Johnson Creek had 2,738 residents.

geography

Johnson Creek is located in southeastern Wisconsin on the east bank of the Rock River , a left tributary of the Mississippi .

The geographic coordinates of Johnson Creek are 43 ° 04'34 "north latitude and 88 ° 46'27" west longitude. The municipality extends over an area of ​​7.85 km².

Neighboring towns to Johnson Creek are Watertown (15.1 km northeast), Ixonia ( 14.6 miles northeast), Farmington (8.6 km east), Helenville (13 km southeast), Jefferson (9.5 km southwest), Aztalan ( 7.3 km west) and Lake Mills (11.5 km in the same direction).

The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (198 km northeast), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (73.8 km east), Chicago , Illinois (201 km southeast), Rockford , Illinois (106 km southwest) and Wisconsin's capital Madison (55 , 6 km west-southwest).

traffic

The Interstate 94 runs from west to east direction on their way from Madison to Milwaukee through the north of Johnson Creek. The Wisconsin State Highway 26 runs through the center of the village in a north-south direction and meets the County Highways B and Y here. All other roads are subordinate highways, some unpaved roads and inter-urban connecting roads.

A route of the Union Pacific Railroad runs through the municipality for freight traffic .

With the Fort Atkinson Municipal Airport is located 14.5 kilometers south-southwest of Johnson Creek, a small airfield. The nearest commercial airports are Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (33.4 miles west-northwest) and Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee (83.6 km east).

population

According to the 2010 census , Johnson Creek had 2,738 people in 1,049 households. The population density was 348.8 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.6 people lived in the 1049 households.

The racial the population was composed of 93.2 percent white, 0.9 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 1.2 percent Asian and 2.8 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 7.5 percent of the population.

27.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 8.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.2 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 65,489  USD . The per capita income was $ 28,928. 13.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on February 26, 2014
  3. ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB) Retrieved February 26, 2014

Web links

Commons : Johnson Creek, Wisconsin  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files