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Sherwood, Wisconsin
Sherwood is a village in Calumet County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,713 at the 2010 census. The former historical unincorporated community of High Cliff is located within present-day Sherwood. The village began as a named unincorporated community within the Town of Harrison, and is named for a Civil War veteran stagecoach driver, who later operated a tavern in the area. Sherwood was incorporated as a village on June 28, 1968. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which, of it is land and is water. Demographics Sherwood is located at (44.173538, -88.275256). 2010 census At the 2010 census there were 2,713 people, 986 households, and 830 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 1,027 housing units at an average density of . The racial makup of the village was 96.8% White, 0.5% African American, 0.5% Native American, 0.8% Asian, 0.4% from other races, and 1.0% from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village (United States)
In the United States, the meaning of village varies by geographic area and legal jurisdiction. In formal usage, a "village" is a type of administrative division at the local government in the United States, local government level. Since the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government from legislating on local government, the U.S. state, states are free to have political subdivisions called "villages" or not to and to define the word in many ways. Typically, a village is a type of municipality, although it can also be a special-purpose district, special district or an unincorporated area. It may or may not be recognized for governmental purposes. In informal usage, a U.S. village may be simply a relatively small clustered human settlement without formal legal existence. In colonial New England, a village typically formed around the church building, meetinghouses that were located in the center of each New England town, town.Joseph S. Wood ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villages In Calumet County, Wisconsin
A village is a human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a Church (building), church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway 114 (Wisconsin)
State Trunk Highway 114 (often called Highway 114, STH-114 or WIS 114) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It runs east–west in east central Wisconsin from Neenah to Hilbert. The highway ran from Neenah to Brillion before about 1986, when the section from Hilbert to Brillion was turned back to Calumet County, which now maintains it as County Trunk Highway PP (CTH-PP). Route description Starting at Interstate 41/ US Highway 41 (I-41/US 41) in Neenah, WIS 114 starts to travel eastward along Winneconne Avenue. As it reaches downtown, WIS 114 transitions north onto Commercial Street. As it enters Menasha, WIS 114 transitions onto Washington Avenue and then onto Tayco Street. It then turns east along Third Street, intersects WIS 47, and then northeast along Plank Road. After the road bends east, WIS 114 then begins to run concurrently with US 10. After that, the road transitions from a five-lane undivided roa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway 55 (Wisconsin)
State Trunk Highway 55 (often called Highway 55, STH-55, or WIS 55) is a state highway (US), state highway in Wisconsin, United States. It travels south-to-north in the northeastern part of Wisconsin from an Intersection (road), intersection with U.S. Route 151, U.S. Highway 151 (US 151) approximately north of Brothertown, Wisconsin, Brothertown, near the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago in Calumet County, Wisconsin, Calumet County, to the Michigan state line at the Brule River approximately northeast of Nelma, Wisconsin, Nelma in Forest County, Wisconsin, Forest County, where it connects to M-73 (Michigan highway), M-73. Route description WIS 55 begins at an intersection with U.S. Route 151, US 151 directly across Lake Winnebago from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Proceeding north, it passes through Stockbridge, Wisconsin, Stockbridge. Just south of Sherwood, Wisconsin, Sherwood it merges with Wisconsin Highway 114, WIS 114 and the highway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poverty Line
The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country. The poverty line is usually calculated by estimating the total cost of one year's worth of necessities for the average adult.Poverty Lines – Martin Ravallion, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, London: Palgrave Macmillan The cost of housing, such as the renting, rent for an apartment, usually makes up the largest proportion of this estimate, so economists track the real estate market and other housing cost indicators as a major influence on the poverty line. Individual factors are often used to account for various circumstances, such as whether one is a parent, elderly, a child, married, etc. The poverty threshold may be adjusted annually. In practice, like the definition of poverty, the official or common understanding of the poverty line is significantly higher in developed country, developed countries than in developi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wisconsin
Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. With a population of about 6 million and an area of about 65,500 square miles, Wisconsin is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 20th-largest state by population and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 23rd-largest by area. It has List of counties in Wisconsin, 72 counties. Its List of municipalities in Wisconsin by population, most populous city is Milwaukee; its List of capitals in the United States, capital and second-most populous city is Madison, Wisconsin, Madison. Other urban areas include Green Bay, Wisconsin, Green Bay, Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kenosha, Racine, Wisconsin, Racine, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Eau Claire, and the Fox Cities. Geography of Wiscon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geographic Names Information System
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features, encompassing the United States and its territories; the Compact of Free Association, associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica. It is a type of gazetteer. It was developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) to promote the standardization of feature names. Data were collected in two phases. Although a third phase was considered, which would have handled name changes where local usages differed from maps, it was never begun. The database is part of a system that includes topographic map names and bibliographic references. The names of books and historic maps that confirm the feature or place name are cited. Variant names, alternatives to official federal names for a feature, are also recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, two United Nations General Assembly observers#Current non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and ten other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and one UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (15 states, of which there are six UN member states, one UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and eight de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (two states, both in associated state, free association with New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
