Lancaster, Wisconsin Grant County Courthouse in Lancaster Location of Lancaster, Wisconsin Location of Lancaster, Wisconsin State Wisconsin Lancaster is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. The populace was 3,868 at the 2010 census.
He was persuaded to name it Lancaster by a relative who migrated from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Lancaster was the home of the first governor of Wisconsin, Nelson Dewey.
Lancaster is positioned at 42 50 55 N 90 42 38 W (42.848505, -90.710430). Lancaster is positioned in the unglaciated "Driftless Area" of southwest Wisconsin whose topography is strikingly different from that of the rest of the state.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.04 square miles (7.87 km2), all of it land. There were 1,659 homeholds of which 28.3% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 49.1% were married couples residing together, 9.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.0% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 37.5% were non-families.
23.6% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 7.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23.1% were from 25 to 44; 26.1% were from 45 to 64; and 19.8% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 1,706 homeholds out of which 28.3% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 52.8% were married couples residing together, 8.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 36.7% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.5% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 20.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $32,723, and the median income for a family was $47,500.
About 6.4% of families and 8.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 8.9% of those under age 18 and 9.7% of those age 65 or over.
Lancaster Municipal Airport (73 - C) serves the town/city and encircling communities.
Lancaster calls itself "The City of the Dome" after the octagonal glass and copper-clad dome of its courthouse, which was designed by Armand Koch and assembled in 1905.
The contemporary and wood Patrick Kinney home (1951) in Lancaster was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, one of 45 Wright structures in Wisconsin.
Lancaster High's football team, the "Flying Arrows," has earned seven state titles since 1993, five of them since 2000.
The "Flying Arrows" have also gone to state 2 times back to back amid the 2012 and 2013 seasons. In 2001 the Associated Press titled Coach John Hoch "state coach of the year", and the Green Bay Packers/Wisconsin Football Coaches Association titled him "prep football coach of the year". In 2003, he was inducted into the UW-River Falls Athletic Hall of Fame. Baxter - Wisconsin State Senator William Carter - Wisconsin State Assemblyman Harper - Wisconsin State Assemblyman John Chandler Holloway - President Pro Tem of the Wisconsin State Senate William John Mc - Coy - Wisconsin State Assemblyman Joseph Trotter Mills - Wisconsin State Assemblyman Murphy - Wisconsin State Senator and jurist David Schreiner - Wisconsin State Assemblyman Showalter - Wisconsin State Assemblyman United States Enumeration Bureau.
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Municipalities and communities of Grant County, Wisconsin, United States Beetown Bloomington Boscobel Cassville Castle Rock Clifton Ellenboro Fennimore Glen Haven Harrison Hazel Green Hickory Grove Jamestown Liberty Lima Little Grant Marion Millville Mount Hope Mount Ida Muscoda North Lancaster Paris Patch Grove Platteville Potosi Smelser South Lancaster Waterloo Watterstown Wingville Woodman Wyalusing
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