Stoddard, Wisconsin

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Stoddard, Wisconsin
Stoddard
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Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Vernon County
Coordinates : 43 ° 40 ′  N , 91 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 40 ′  N , 91 ° 13 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 774 (as of 2010)
Population density : 377.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 2.05 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 201 m
Postal code : 54658
Area code : +1 608
FIPS : 55-77550
GNIS ID : 1574912
Website : stoddardwi.tripod.com/id7.html
Mayor : Kevin Gobel

Stoddard is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Vernon County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Stoddard had 774 residents.

geography

Stoddard is located in southwest Wisconsin at the confluence of Coon Creek in the Mississippi , which forms the border with Minnesota here. The intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin is 11.4 miles downstream.

Stoddard is located in the Ice Age-shaped region called the Driftless Area , which stretches across southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa, and far northwestern Illinois. During the last ice age, the so-called Wisconsin Glaciation , the region remained ice-free, so that the river valleys could cut deeper into the plateau during this time.

The geographical coordinates of Stoddard are 43 ° 39'43 "north latitude and 91 ° 13'06" west longitude. The municipality extends over an area of ​​2.05 km². The place is completely enclosed by the Town of Bergen without belonging to it.

Neighboring towns of Stoddard are La Crosse (17.7 km north), Coon Valley (21.7 km east-northeast), Chaseburg (12.3 km east), Genoa (10.3 km south).

The closest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (338 km east-northeast), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (328 km east-southeast), Wisconsin's capital Madison (192 km southeast), Rockford in Illinois (313 km in the same direction), the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa (295 km south), Cedar Rapids , Iowa (236 km south-southwest), Rochester , Minnesota (138 km west-northwest), and the Twin Cities , Minnesota (252 km northwest).

traffic

The Wisconsin State Highway 35 , which runs along the Mississippi, forms the Wisconsin section of the Great River Road . The Wisconsin State Highway 162 coming from the east reaches its western end point at the confluence with WIS 35 in Stoddard. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

A railway line of the BNSF Railway , the second largest railway company in the country, runs along the Mississippi for freight traffic .

The nearest airports are La Crosse Regional Airport (17 miles north), Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota (137 km west-northwest), and Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (200 km east-southeast).

population

According to the 2010 census , Stoddard had 774 people in 335 households. The population density was 377.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.31 people lived in each of the 335 households.

The racial the population was composed of 98.7 percent white, 0.6 percent African American, 0.1 percent (one person) Native American, 0.1 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.8 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. 51.9 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 43,750  USD . The per capita income was $ 25,337. 11.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved January 1, 2014
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed January 1, 2014

Web links

Commons : Stoddard, Wisconsin  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files