Tomah
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 Downtown Tomah |
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| Location in Wisconsin | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1855 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Wisconsin | ||
| County : | Monroe County | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 59 ′ N , 90 ° 30 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 9,093 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 446.6 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 20.36 km 2 (approx. 8 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 297 m | ||
| Postal code : | 54660 | ||
| Area code : | +1 608 | ||
| FIPS : | 55-80075 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1575494 | ||
| Website : | www.tomahonline.com | ||
| Mayor : | Shannon Hough | ||
 The Tomah Public Library , listed on the NRHP since 1976 |
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Tomah is a small town (with the status " City ") in Monroe County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Tomah had 9,093 inhabitants.
geography
Tomah is located in west central Wisconsin on both sides of the Lemonweir River , which is part of the Mississippi River basin across the Wisconsin River .
The geographical coordinates of Tomah are 43 ° 59'6 "north latitude and 90 ° 30'14" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 20.36 km² and is surrounded by the towns of La Grange (in the north) and Tomah (in the south) without belonging to any of them.
Neighboring towns to Tomah are Warrens ( 11.3 miles north), Valley Junction (9 miles northeast), Wyeville (9 miles east-northeast ), Oakdale (7 miles east), Clifton (13 miles southeast), Wilton ( 20.9 km south), Norwalk (15.6 km south-southwest), Sparta (28.1 km west) and Tunnel City (on the north-western city limits).
A few kilometers west of Tomah is Fort McCoy, a garrison of the US Army .
The closest major cities are Wausau (159 km northeast), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (270 km west southwest), Wisconsin's capital Madison (159 km southeast), Rockford , Illinois (269 km in the same direction), the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa (315 km south), La Crosse on the Mississippi (71.4 km west southwest), Rochester in Minnesota (181 km west) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (277 km northwest).
traffic
Interstate Highways 90 and 94 meet on the eastern outskirts of Tomah and continue east on a common route. The US Highway 12 runs north into the city and branches in the center to the east. Wisconsin State Highway 21 runs through the north of the city in a west-east direction . In addition, Wisconsin State Highways 16 and 131 meet in Tomah. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
Two freight railroad lines, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the Union Pacific Railroad , meet in Tomah . A long-distance train from Chicago to Portland in Oregon and Seattle in Washington , which stops in Tomah , also runs over the CPR tracks for Amtrak's passenger service , the Empire Builder .
The Bloyer Field Airport is a small airfield in the southeast of the city. The nearest commercial airports are La Crosse Regional Airport (69 km west-southwest), Central Wisconsin Airport near Wausau (137 km northeast) and Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (156 km southeast).
population
According to the 2010 census , Tomah had 9,093 people in 3,900 households. The population density was 446.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.25 people lived in each of the 3,900 households.
The racial the population was composed of 90.9 percent white, 2.6 percent African American, 1.7 percent Native American, 1.2 percent Asian, 0.3 percent Polynesian and 1.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 4.0 percent of the population regardless of ethnicity.
24.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.2 percent were 65 years or older. 49.8 percent of the population were female.
The average annual income for a household was 38,510 USD . The per capita income was $ 22,225. 20.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Known residents
- Arthur C. Ruge (1905–2000), engineer, inventor and professor at MIT , born in Tomah
- Susan Szabo (* 1949), psychologist and writer, grew up in Tomah
Individual evidence
- ↑ City of Tomah - Mayor.Retrieved July 23, 2014
- ↑ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 76000068.Retrieved July 23, 2014
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder.Retrieved July 23, 2014
- ↑ Fort McCoy Garrison.Retrieved July 23, 2014
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on July 23, 2014
- ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB) Retrieved July 23, 2014
- ↑ AirNav.com - BLOYER Field Airport Retrieved on July 23, 2014
