Clinton, Barron County, Wisconsin
Clinton is a town in Barron County, Wisconsin, Barron County, in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 879 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated area, unincorporated community of Poskin, Wisconsin, Poskin is located in Clinton, along U.S. Route 8. Geography Clinton is located west of the center of Barron County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.83%, is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 920 people, 314 households, and 258 families residing in the town. The population density was 26.2 people per square mile (10.1/km2). There were 374 housing units at an average density of 10.6 per square mile (4.1/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 98.59% White (U.S. Census), White, 0.11% African American (U.S. Census), African American, 0.54% Native American (U.S. Census), Native American, 0.43% Asian (U.S. Census), Asian, 0.22% from Race (United States Census), other races, and 0.11% ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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