Huilsburg, Wisconsin
Herman is a town in Dodge County, Wisconsin, Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,207 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Herman Center, Wisconsin, Herman Center and Huilsburg, Wisconsin, Huilsburg are located in the town. The unincorporated communities of Hochheim, Wisconsin, Hochheim and Woodland, Dodge County, Wisconsin, Woodland are also located partially in the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.4 square miles (94.3 km2), all of it land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,207 people, 394 households, and 327 families living in the town. The population density was 33.2 people per square mile (12.8/km2). There were 401 housing units at an average density of 11.0 per square mile (4.3/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 99.59% White (U.S. Census), White, 0.08% Asian (U.S. Census), Asian, 0.25% from Race (United States Census), other races, and 0.08% fr ...
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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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