Little Grant
Little Grant is a town in Grant County, Wisconsin, Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 257 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.0 square miles (93.3 km), all of it land. Demographics At the 2000 United States Census, 2000 census there were 257 people, 93 households, and 70 families living in the town. The population density was 7.1 people per square mile (2.8/km). There were 99 housing units at an average density of 2.7 per square mile (1.1/km). The Race and ethnicity in the United States Census#2000 census, racial makeup of the town was 99.22% White, 0.39% Native American, and 0.39% from two or more races. Of the 93 households 39.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.9% were married couples living together, 3.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.7% were non-families. 16.1% of households were one person and 5.4% were one person aged 65 ...
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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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