Oconto Falls
| Oconto Falls | |||
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 Downtown Oconto Falls |
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| Location in Wisconsin | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Wisconsin | ||
| County : | Oconto County | ||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 53 ′ N , 88 ° 9 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
2,891 (as of 2010) 306,241 (as of 2010) |
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| Population density : | 378.4 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 7.64 km 2 (about 3 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 226 m | ||
| Postal code : | 54154 | ||
| Area code : | +1 920 | ||
| FIPS : | 55-59400 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1570743 | ||
| Website : | www.ci.ocontofalls.wi.us | ||
| Mayor : | Brad Rice | ||
 north entrance of Oconto Falls |
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Oconto Falls is a small town (with the status " City ") in Oconto County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 , Oconto Falls had 2,891 residents.
Oconto Falls is part of the metropolitan area around the city of Green Bay .
geography
Oconto Falls is located in eastern Wisconsin on both sides of the Oconto River , which flows 26.5 km east into the Green Bay of Lake Michigan .
The geographical coordinates of Oconto Falls are 44 ° 52'30 "north latitude and 88 ° 8'34" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 7.64 km² and is surrounded by the Town of Oconto Falls and the Town of Stiles , without belonging to one of them.
Neighboring places to Oconto Falls are Spruce (9.5 km north), Lena (15.8 km northeast), Oconto (23.6 km east), Stiles (8.3 km east-southeast), Abrams (18.5 km southeast) , Chase ( 14.7 miles south), Green Valley (11 miles southwest), and Gillett (9 miles west).
Green Bay city center is 30 miles southeast of Oconto Falls. The other closest major cities are Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (230 km south), Chicago , Illinois (376 km in the same direction), Appleton (87.5 km south-southwest), Wisconsin's capital Madison (261 km in the same direction), Wausau (147 km west), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (421 km in the same direction), Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (468 km northwest) and Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan and the neighboring city of the same name in the Canadian province of Ontario (425 km northeast).
traffic
The four-lane US Highway 141 runs nine kilometers east of Oconto Falls in a north-south direction . Wisconsin State Highway 22 runs through the city in an east-west direction . All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
In Oconto Falls is the western terminus of a railway line for the freight traffic of the Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad .
With the J. Douglas Bake Memorial Airport in Oconto there is a small airfield 25.4 km east. The nearest commercial airport is Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay (33 miles south).
population
According to the 2010 census , Oconto Falls had 2,891 people in 1,251 households. The population density was 378.4 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.24 people lived in each of the 1251 households.
The racial the population was composed of 95.9 percent white, 0.1 percent African American, 1.5 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.2 percent of the population.
24.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.2 percent were 65 years or older. 52.3 percent of the population were female.
The average annual income for a household was 39,144 USD . The per capita income was $ 26,571. 17.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Individual evidence
- ↑ City of Oconto Falls - City Council.Retrieved July 26, 2014
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved July 26, 2014
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on July 26, 2014
- ^ Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad. Retrieved July 26, 2014
- ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation - Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB) Accessed July 26, 2014
