Loyal (Wisconsin)

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Loyal
Loyal (Wisconsin)
Loyal
Loyal
Location in Wisconsin
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Clark County
Coordinates : 44 ° 44 ′  N , 90 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 44 ′  N , 90 ° 30 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 1,261 (as of 2010)
Population density : 350.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 3.6 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 378 m
Postal code : 54446
Area code : +1 715
FIPS : 55-46075
GNIS ID : 1568773
Website : loyalwi.com
Mayor : Dave Williams
Loyal Wisconsin Downtown looking north WIS98.jpg

Loyal is a small town (with the status " City ") in Clark County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Loyal had 1261 residents.

geography

Loyal is located in northwest central Wisconsin, about 10 km east of the Black River , a left tributary of the Mississippi . The geographical coordinates of Loyal are 44 ° 44'15 "north latitude and 90 ° 29'48" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of ​​3.6 km².

Neighboring locations to Loyal are Curtiss (28.4 km northeast), Unity (16.6 km northeast), Spencer (17.6 km east), Granton (20.2 km south), Neillsville (25.9 km southwest), and Greenwood (7.3 miles west-northwest).

The closest major cities are Green Bay (232 km east), Wisconsin's capital Madison (257 km south-southeast), La Crosse (145 km southwest), Eau Claire (93.5 km west), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (254 km in the same direction) and Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (335 km north-northwest).

traffic

The Wisconsin State Highway 98 leads as the main road through the center of Loyal and meets here on the County Highway K. All other roads are subordinate highways, partly unpaved roads or inner-city connecting roads.

With the Neillsville Municipal Airport there is a small airfield 22.3 km south. The nearest commercial airports are the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire (93.2 km to the west), the Central Wisconsin Airport in Wausau (73.9 km to the east-northeast) and the La Crosse Regional Airport (142 km to the southwest).

population

According to the 2010 census , Loyal had 1,261 people in 538 households. The population density was 350.3 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.34 people lived in each of the 538 households.

The racial the population was composed of 98.3 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and 0.6 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.0 percent of the population.

24.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 52.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 22.8 percent were 65 years or older. 50.9 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 39,554  USD . The per capita income was $ 21,479. 12.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved September 27, 2013
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on September 27, 2013

Web links

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