Tainter Lake

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Tainter Lake
Tainter Lake, Wisconsin
Tainter Lake
Tainter Lake
Location in Wisconsin
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Dunn County
Coordinates : 44 ° 59 ′  N , 91 ° 51 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 59 ′  N , 91 ° 51 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 2,242 (as of 2010)
Population density : 46.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 55.49 km 2  (approx. 21 mi 2 ) of
which 47.98 km 2  (approx. 19 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 266 m
Postal code : 54730
Area code : +1 715,534
FIPS : 55-78980
GNIS ID : 1867667

Tainter Lake is a settlement on community-free area in Dunn County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . For statistical purposes, the place has been combined to form a census-designated place (CDP) . In 2010 , Tainter Lake had 2,242 residents.

geography

The Tainter Lake , a reservoir of the Red Cedar River

Tainter Lake is located in northwestern Wisconsin around Tainter Lake , a reservoir of the Red Cedar River . This belongs to the Mississippi river basin over the Chippewa River .

The geographic coordinates of Tainter Lake are 44 ° 59'21 "north latitude and 91 ° 50'52" west longitude. The municipality extends over an area of ​​55.49 km², which is spread over 47.98 km² of land and 7.51 km² of water. Tainter Lake is where most of the Town of Tainter's population lives .

Neighboring towns to Tainter Lake are Colfax (14 km east), Elk Mound (29 km southeast), Menomonie (18.8 km southwest), and Wheeler (10.9 km northwest).

The closest major cities are Minnesota's capital St. Paul (108 km west), Eau Claire (47.2 km southeast), La Crosse (180 km southeast), and Rochester , Minnesota (149 km southwest).

traffic

Tainter Lake is bounded on the north by Wisconsin State Highway 170 and west by Wisconsin State Highway 25 . All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

Parallel to WIS 170 runs in west-east direction, a railway line of the Canadian National Railway belonging Wisconsin Central by Tainter Lake.

The Menomonie Municipal Airport is 17 km south of a small airfield. The nearest major airport is Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (127 km to the west).

population

According to the 2010 census , Tainter Lake had 2,242 people in 952 households. The population density was 46.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.35 people lived in each of the 952 households.

The racial the population was composed of 97.6 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.9 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.0 percent of the population.

20 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16 percent were 65 years or older. 47.9 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 60,703  USD . The per capita income was $ 28,298. 8.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved January 27, 2014
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed January 27, 2014
  3. AirNav.com - Menomonie Municipal Airport Accessed on January 27, 2014

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