Shawano

Shawano
	; Shawano Main Street
Location in Wisconsin
	Shawano
	Shawano
Basic data
State :	United States
State :	Wisconsin
County :	Shawano County
Coordinates :	44 ° 47 ′ N , 88 ° 37 ′ W Coordinates: 44 ° 47 ′ N , 88 ° 37 ′ W
Time zone :	Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents :	9,305 (as of 2010)
Population density :	538.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	17.28 km 2 (about 7 mi 2 )
Height :	249 m
Postal code :	54166
Area code :	+1 534, 715
FIPS :	55-72925
GNIS ID :	1573978
	; Shawano City Hall

Shawano is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Shawano County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Shawano had 9,305 residents.

The Wisconsin Towns Association has its headquarters in Shawano. It is an advocacy group for the 1259 towns of Wisconsin with a total of around 1.7 million inhabitants.

Surname

The name comes from the language of Anishinabe (Ojibwe) and means "south".

geography

Shawano is located in northeastern Wisconsin, at the confluence of the Shawano Lake drain into the Wolf River . This is part of the Green Bay catchment area of Lake Michigan via the Fox River .

The geographical coordinates of Shawano are 44 ° 46'56 "north latitude and 88 ° 36'32" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 17.28 km ² .

Neighboring towns to Shawano are Keshena in the Menominee Indian Reservation of the Menominee (12 km north), Cecil (13 km east-northeast), Bonduel (14.6 km east-southeast), Belle Plaine (11 km southwest) and Thornton (7.8 km west-northwest) .

The closest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (61 km southeast), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (150 miles southeast), Appleton (70.7 km south), Wisconsin's capital Madison (238 km southwest), Wausau (93.4 km west ), Eau Claire (250 km in the same direction), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (373 km also in the same direction), Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (454 km northwest) and Sault Ste. Marie in the Canadian province of Ontario (468 km northeast, across from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan ).

traffic

The following highways meet in Shawano:

	WIS 29 east to Green Bay , west to Wausau .
	WIS 22 north to Gillett and south to Clintonville .
	WIS 47 simultaneously with WIS 55 north to Keshena and south east on WIS 29 from Bonduel to Appleton .
	WIS 55 simultaneously to the south with WIS 29 until it splits to the east in Seymour .

All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

In Shawano, a railway line coming from the southeast for the Canadian National Railway (CN) ends .

With the Shawano Municipal Airport there is a small airfield on the northeastern city limits. The nearest commercial airports are Central Wisconsin Airport at Wausau (94.5 km west), Outagamie County Regional Airport at Appleton (75.1 km south) and Austin Straubel International Airport at Green Bay (60.5 km southeast).

population

According to the 2010 census , Shawano had 9,305 people in 3,960 households. The population density was 538.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.24 people lived in each of the 3,960 households.

The racial the population was composed of 82.4 percent white, 0.7 percent African American, 12.3 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian, 0.1 percent Polynesian and 1.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 3.1 percent of the population.

23.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.8 percent were 65 years or older. 52.8 percent of the population were female.

The average annual income for a household was 37.919 USD . The per capita income was $ 21,799. 13.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Known residents

Evelyn Frechette (1907–1969) - lover and accomplice of John Dillinger - lived and died in Shawano
Daniel P. Leaf (* 1952) - US Air Force Lieutenant General, former Commander of the United States Pacific Command - born in Shawano
Roger H. Stuewer (* 1934) - physicist and science historian - born in Shawano