Plymouth, Wisconsin

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Plymouth
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Plymouth city center
Location in Wisconsin
Plymouth, Wisconsin
Plymouth
Plymouth
Basic data
Foundation : 1845 (settled)
1877 (incorporated)
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Sheboygan County
Coordinates : 43 ° 45 ′  N , 87 ° 59 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 45 ′  N , 87 ° 59 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 8,445 (as of 2010)
Population density : 610.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 13.83 km 2  (approx. 5 mi 2 )
Height : 257 m
Postal code : 53073
Area code : +1 920
FIPS : 55-63700
GNIS ID : 1571709
Website : www.plymouthgov.com
Mayor : Don Pohlman
HotelLaackPlymouthWisconsin.jpg
The Hotel Laack in the center of Plymouth, listed in the NRHP since 1985

Plymouth is a city (with the status " City ") in Sheboygan County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Plymouth had 8,445 residents.

geography

Plymouth is located in southeastern Wisconsin on both sides of the Mullet River , which is part of the catchment area of ​​Lake Michigan about 25 km to the east via the Sheboygan River .

The geographical coordinates of Plymouth are 43 ° 44'55 "north latitude and 87 ° 58'37" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of ​​13.83 km² and is surrounded by the Town of Plymouth without belonging to it.

Neighboring towns to Plymouth are Howards Grove (13.4 miles northeast), Sheboygan Falls (9.2 miles east), Oostburg (28.5 miles southeast), Waldo (6.4 miles south-southeast), Cascade (11.7 km southwest) , Greenbush (6 miles west-northwest), Glenbeulah (9.4 km northwest), and Elkhart Lake (11.5 km northwest).

The closest major cities are Green Bay (59 miles north), Appleton (81.6 km northwest), Wisconsin's capital Madison (161 km southwest), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (84.1 km south) and Chicago , Illinois (230 km in the same direction).

traffic

Wisconsin State Highways 23 , 57 and 67 meet in Plymouth . All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

Two freight railroad lines of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad (WSOR) meet in Plymouth .

With the Sheboygan County Memorial Airport there is a small airfield 13 km east. The nearest commercial airports are Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay (99.5 km north) and Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee (94.2 km south).

population

According to the 2010 census , Plymouth had 8,445 people in 3,710 households. The population density was 610.6 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.26 people lived in each of the 3710 households.

The racial the population was composed of 96.2 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and 0.9 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.4 percent of the population.

24.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.3 percent were 65 years or older. 52.4 percent of the population were female.

The average annual income for a household was 44,679  USD . The per capita income was $ 26,507. 11.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. City of Plymouth - Mayor's Office ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 25, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ciplywi.com
  2. Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 85003095. Retrieved August 25, 2014
  3. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved August 25, 2014
  4. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed August 25, 2014
  5. ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB) Retrieved August 25, 2014
  6. AirNav.com - Sheboygan County Memorial Airport Accessed on August 25, 2014

Web links

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