Sun Prairie
| Sun Prairie | |||
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 Center of Sun Prairie |
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| Location in Wisconsin | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1839 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Wisconsin | ||
| County : | Dane County | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 11 ′ N , 89 ° 13 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
29,364 (as of 2010) 568,593 (as of 2010) |
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| Population density : | 925.4 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 31.73 km 2 (approx. 12 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 291 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 53590, 53591, 53596 | ||
| Area code : | +1 608 | ||
| FIPS : | 55-55025 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1575070 | ||
| Website : | www.cityofsunprairie.com | ||
| Mayor : | Paul Esser | ||
 The Sun Prairie Water Tower , built in 1899 , has been listed in the NRHP since 2000 |
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Sun Prairie is a city (with the status " City ") in Dane County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 , Sun Prairie had 29,364 residents.
Sun Prairie is part of the Madison metropolitan area .
geography
Sun Prairie is located in south-central Wisconsin, in the northeastern suburb of its capital, Madison . The intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois is located on the Mississippi and is 164 km to the southwest.
The geographical coordinates of Sun Prairie are 43 ° 11'01 "north latitude and 89 ° 12'49" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 31.73 km².
The center of Madison, southwest of Sun Prairie metropolitan area, is 13 miles away. Other neighboring towns include Columbus (15 miles northeast), Marshall ( 8 miles east), Cottage Grove (8 miles south), Windsor (10 miles west northwest), and DeForest (16.8 miles in the same direction ).
The closest major cities to Madison are Green Bay (198 km northeast), Milwaukee (117 km east), Chicago (234 km southeast) and Rockford (116 km south).
traffic
The four-lane US Highway 151 runs in a northeast-southwest direction through Sun Prairie. The Wisconsin State Highway 19 runs from west to east through the city of Sun Prairie. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
A railway line of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad , a regional ( Class II ) freight transport company, runs through Sun Prairie from northeast to southwest . The only passenger in the region is from Chicago circulating to the West Coast Empire Builder from Amtrak , which stops in Madison.
The nearest airport is Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (11 miles southwest).
population
According to the 2010 census , Sun Prairie had 29,364 people in 11,636 households. The population density was 925.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.51 people lived in each of the 11,636 households.
The racial the population was composed of 85.4 percent white, 6.1 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 3.7 percent Asian and 1.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 3.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 4.3 percent of the population.
27.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 63.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 8.9 percent were 65 years or older. 51.5 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 66,395 USD . The per capita income was $ 32,091. 7.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Personalities
- Will Butcher (* 1995), ice hockey player - born in Sun Prairie
- Gary Hebl (* 1951), attorney and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly - grew up on Sun Prairie
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), painter - born and raised in Sun Prairie
- Robert Rompre (1929-2010), ice hockey player - died in Sun Prairie
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mayor's website on cityofsunprairie.com (English)
- ↑ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 00000360. Retrieved November 18, 2013
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved November 18, 2013
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on November 18, 2013
