Wrightstown, Wisconsin

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Wrightstown
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Location in Wisconsin
Wrightstown, Wisconsin
Wrightstown
Wrightstown
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
Counties : Brown County
Outagamie County
Coordinates : 44 ° 20 ′  N , 88 ° 10 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 20 ′  N , 88 ° 10 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 2,827 (as of 2010)
Population density : 253.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 11.14 km 2  (approx. 4 mi 2 )
Height : 186 m
Postal code : 54180
Area code : +1 920
FIPS : 55-89150
GNIS ID : 1577056
Website : www.vil.wrightstown.wi.us
Mayor : Dean Erickson (President)
WrightstownWisconsinSignWIS96.jpg
The southeast entrance to Wrightstown

Wrightstown is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Brown County and to a lesser extent in Outagamie County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Wrightstown had 2827 residents.

geography

The Fox River in Wrightstown

Wrightstown is in eastern Wisconsin, on both sides of the Fox River, which flows into Lake Michigan .

The geographical coordinates of Wrightstown are 44 ° 19'33 "north latitude and 88 ° 09'46" west longitude. The municipality extends over an area of ​​11.14 km².

Neighboring towns to Wrightstown are Little Rapids (7.4 km northeast), De Pere (18.5 km in the same direction), Greenleaf (6 km east), Forest Junction (15.7 km south), Kaukauna (11.2 km southwest) and Freedom (16.6 km northwest).

The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (29.1 km northeast), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (165 km south), Chicago , Illinois (311 km in the same direction), Rockford , Illinois (284 km southwest), Wisconsin's capital Madison (196 km southwest), Appleton (25.3 km west-southwest), La Crosse on the Mississippi (300 km in the same direction), Eau Claire (332 km west), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (455 km in the same direction) and Wausau (165 km northwest).

traffic

The Wisconsin State Highway 96 runs in a west-east direction as the main road through Wrightstown and crosses the Fox River in the center over a bridge. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

Wrightstown is a line of freight lines running along the Fox River for the Canadian National Railway (CN).

The nearest airports are Outagamie County Regional Airport at Appleton (20 miles west-southwest) and Austin Straubel International Airport at Green Bay (17 miles northeast).

population

According to the 2010 census , Wrightstown had 2,827 people in 1,027 households. The population density was 253.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 1027 households there were statistically 2.75 people each.

The racial the population was composed of 94.8 percent white, 0.8 percent African American, 0.8 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and 1.7 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 4.4 percent of the population.

31.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 8.1 percent were 65 years or older. 48.6 percent of the population were female.

The average annual income for a household was 71,522  USD . The per capita income was $ 27,446. 5.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. Village Board Members ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 2, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vil.wrightstown.wi.us
  2. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved April 2, 2014
  3. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed April 2, 2014
  4. ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB) Retrieved April 2, 2014

Web links

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