Sauk City
| Sauk City | |||
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 Sauk City on the Wisconsin River |
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| Location in Wisconsin | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1840 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Wisconsin | ||
| County : | Sauk County | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 16 ′ N , 89 ° 44 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 3,410 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 874.4 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 4.2 km 2 (about 2 mi 2 ) of which 3.9 km 2 (about 2 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 226 m | ||
| Postal code : | 53583 | ||
| Area code : | +1 608 | ||
| FIPS : | 55-71650 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1573732 | ||
| Website : | www.saukcity.net | ||
| Mayor : | James Anderson (President) | ||
 Center of Sauk City |
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Sauk City is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Sauk County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Sauk City had 3410 inhabitants.
Sauk City, together with the directly neighboring Prairie du Sac, forms the unofficial twin city of Sauk Prairie .
geography
Sauk City is located in southwest Wisconsin on the Wisconsin River , a left tributary of the Mississippi . The intersection of the three states of Minnesota , Iowa and Wisconsin is located on the Mississippi and is 155 km to the west-northwest.
The geographical coordinates of Sauk City are 43 ° 16'27 "north latitude and 89 ° 43'42" west longitude. The municipality extends over an area of 4.2 km².
Neighboring towns of Sauk City are Prairie du Sac (on the northern boundary), Lodi (20 km east-northeast), Dane (21 km east), Cross Plains (23 km south-southeast), Black Earth (18.1 km south), Mazomanie (14th district) , 6 km southwest) and Plain (28.7 km west).
The closest major cities are La Crosse (173 km northwest), Wisconsin's capital Madison (38.6 km southeast), Rockford , Illinois (144 km southeast), the Quad Cities in Iowa and Illinois (253 km southwest), and Cedar Rapids , Iowa (254 km southwest).
traffic
The US Highway 12 runs in a west-east direction through the municipality of Sauk City and leaves the place in an easterly direction over a bridge over the Wisconsin River. In the center, US 12 meets Wisconsin State Highways 60 and 78 . All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
Another bridge over the Wisconsin River is a railroad line of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad (WSOR), a regional ( Class II ) freight transport company, in the community area and continues north.
With the Sauk-Prairie Airport there is a small airfield 5.6 km northwest. The nearest commercial airports are Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (41 km southeast), Dubuque Regional Airport in Dubuque , Iowa (152 km southwest) and La Crosse Regional Airport (181 km northwest).
population
According to the 2010 census , Sauk City had 3,410 people in 1,431 households. The population density was 874.4 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.3 people lived in the 1431 households.
The racial the population was composed of 94.6 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.9 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and 2.8 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.0 percent of the population.
23.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.2 percent were 65 years or older. 52.8 percent of the population were female.
The average annual income for a household was 46,607 USD . The per capita income was $ 26,092. 4.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Known residents
- Friedrich Lüders (1813–1904) - gardener and naturalist - lived in Sauk City for a long time until his death
- Tracy Sachtjen (* 1969) - curler - born and raised in Sauk City
- Eduard Georg Schröter (1811–1888) - Protestant theologian and humanist - lived in Sauk City at the end of his life
- Mitch Breuning, breeder of the bull Toystory
Web links
- Official website
- Chamber of Commerce of Sauk City and Prairie du Sac
- city-data.com - Sauk City, Wisconsin
Individual evidence
- ^ Village of Sauk City - Village President to Trustees.Retrieved September 15, 2014.
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
- ↑ Sauk Prairie ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps .
- ↑ AirNav.com - Sauk-Prairie Airport Accessed on September 15, 2014.
