Lac du Flambeau (CDP, Wisconsin)
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Location in Wisconsin
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Wisconsin | ||
| County : | Vilas County | ||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 58 ′ N , 89 ° 54 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 1,969 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 151.5 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 20 km 2 (approx. 8 mi 2 ) of which 13 km 2 (approx. 5 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 487 m | ||
| Postal code : | 54538 | ||
| Area code : | +1 534, 715 | ||
| FIPS : | 55-40675 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1579611 | ||
Lac du Flambeau is a settlement on community-free area in Vilas County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . For statistical purposes, the place has been combined to form a census-designated place (CDP) . In 2010 Lac du Flambeau had 1969 inhabitants.
Lac du Flambeau is the capital of the Lac du Flambeau reservation of the Anishinabe .
geography
Lac du Flambeau is located in a forest and lake-rich landscape in northern Wisconsin on Flambeau Lake . This is from the Bear River flowing through it, one of the sources of the over the Wisconsin River to the basin of the Mississippi belonging Flambeau River .
The geographical coordinates of Lac du Flambeau are 45 ° 58'11 "north latitude and 89 ° 53'32" west longitude. The place extends over an area of 20 km², which is spread over 13 km² of land and 7 km² of water. Lac du Flambeau is the main town of the Town of Lac du Flambeau .
Neighboring towns to Lac du Flambeau are Manitowish Waters (30 km north), Arbor Vitae (25 km east-southeast), Woodruff (19.5 km southeast) and Minocqua (in the same direction).
The closest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (283 km southeast), Appleton (271 km south-southeast), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (420 km in the same direction), Wisconsin's capital Madison (358 km south), Wausau (133 km in the same direction), Eau Claire (250 km southwest), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (343 km west southwest), Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (239 km west northwest) and Sault Ste. Marie in the Canadian province of Ontario (527 km east-northeast, across from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan ).
traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 47 leads as the main road through Lac du Flambeau. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
With the Manitowish Waters Airport there is a small airfield 28 km north. The nearest commercial airport is Rhinelander – Oneida County Airport (61.3 km to the southeast).
population
According to the 2010 census , there were 1969 people in 594 households in Lac du Flambeau. The population density was 151.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 3.31 people lived in each of the 594 households.
The racial the population was composed of 87.6 percent Native American, 10.2 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.1 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.7 percent of the population.
36.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 55.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 8.6 percent were 65 years or older. 49.7 percent of the population were female.
The average annual income for a household was 26,810 USD . The per capita income was $ 15,761. 35.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved September 4, 2014
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on September 4, 2014
- ↑ AirNav.com - Manitowish Waters Airport Retrieved on September 4, 2014
