Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
City of Sun Prairie Downtown Sun Prairie Downtown Sun Prairie Official logo of City of Sun Prairie City of Sun Prairie Logo Sun Prairie is a town/city in Dane County in the U.S.
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On June 9, the group emerged at the edge of the prairie and with the sun shining for the first time in days, carved the words "Sun Prairie" into a tree.
The Town of Sun Prairie was created on February 2, 1846. The village of Sun Prairie, which interval from that town, was incorporated in an act of the Wisconsin council on March 6, 1868. Sun Prairie was incorporated as a town/city in 1958. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.25 square miles (31.73 km2), of which, 12.23 square miles (31.68 km2) is territory and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km2) is water./> The Yahara River Valley encompasses part of the town/city of Sun Prairie.
The easterly part of Dane County, known as the drumlin and marsh physiographic area, contains most of Sun Prairie.
The general soils associations in the Sun Prairie region include the Dodge-St.
Charles-Mc - Henry soils are found in the eastern, southern, and central portions of Sun Prairie.
Sun Prairie's Main Street, about 1875.
Sun Prairie has advanced a number of traditional neighborhood developments (TND). Often alluded to as "new urbanism", these neighborhoods focus on the pedestrian and the appearance of town/city streets.
Sun Prairie In the Koppen climate classification, Sun Prairie is in the warm summer humid continental climate zone (Dfa).
The annual average rain at Sun Prairie is 32.95 inches (837 mm).
The town/city of Sun Prairie encounters occasional flooding because of the existence of hydric soils, spring melting and its adjacency to the Koshkonong Creek.
A flood on April 11, 2008, caused by heavy overnight rains that outpaced the city's storm drain fitness and leaked into the sewage system, resulted in flooding in residentiary basements. The town/city suffered considerably from the June 2008 Midwest floods.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 28.5% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 33.7% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 9.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
Sun Prairie has a mayor-council form of government.
The council manages the city's budget and financial operations and determines the salaries of all officers and employees of the city.
Sun Prairie has a full-time town/city administrator, who is responsible for the administration of the town/city government in conformity with the policies established by the Common Council.
Other town/city officers consist of assistant administrator, City Clerk, treasurer, assessor, municipal judge, police chief and fire chief.
Miller represent the town/city of Sun Prairie in the Wisconsin State Legislature.
Sun Prairie has had two small-town Public-access tv cable TV stations, KSUN-12 and KIDS-4, for over 30 years. KIDS-4's programming content, camera, sound, lighting, editing, writing, and direction are produced by 30 to 40 kids selected each year. Historically, these kids have ranged in age from nine to fourteen, but in 2000, the first high school-aged crew was introduced. In July 2015, a new low-power airways broadcast came to Sun Prairie.
The town/city is served by two small-town newspapers: the Sun Prairie Star (formerly the Star Countryman), and the Hometown Advertiser.
Sun Prairie has a volunteer fire department that serves both the town/city and town of Sun Prairie, as well as the suburbs of Burke and Bristol. The department, which began in 1891, comprises of 45 members who all maintain external jobs.
Sun Prairie is served by a police department made up of 53 sworn police officers.
Sun Prairie maintains its own emergency medical service, which is a charter member of Dane County's Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS).
Responding to over 2,000 calls in 2007, the department addresses medical and rescue calls in the town/city of Sun Prairie and the Town of Bristol in a precinct covering 50 square miles (130 km2) with a populace of almost 30,000.
Sun Prairie EMS transports to all Madison hospitals and to Columbus Community Hospital in Columbus.
Sun Prairie's water is supplied from six wells pumped into the fitness or stored in the three water towers, which maintain a storage capacity of 2.85 million US gallons (10,800 m3).
The bulk of the city's electricity is purchased or generated by Sun Prairie Water & Light, a Wisconsin Public Power, Inc (WPPI) member utility. Natural gas is supplied to the town/city by WE-Energies with command posts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Sun Prairie Public Library The Sun Prairie Public Library's service region contains the town/city of Sun Prairie, the Town of Sun Prairie, the Town of Bristol, and other region communities.
Sun Prairie Family Aquatic Center The Sun Prairie Family Aquatic Center (FAC) is a municipal swimming pool that serves the Sun Prairie area.
The Sun Prairie Piranhas, the city's youth swim team, practice at the Family Aquatic Center.
QBE Insurance has American operations in Sun Prairie.
Other momentous employers include the Sun Prairie School District, American Family Insurance and Frontier Communications.
The Sun Prairie Area School District administers small-town enhance education.
There are two parochial schools in Sun Prairie.
Sun Prairie Water Tower Sun Prairie, Wisconsin is positioned in Wisconsin Sun Prairie, Wisconsin Location Sun Prairie, Wisconsin Four properties in Sun Prairie are listed in the National Register of Historic Places: the Dr.
Crosse House, the Fuhremann Canning Company Factory, the Adam and Mary Smith House, and the Sun Prairie Water Tower.
The Sun Prairie Water Tower, positioned at the junction of Columbus, Church and Cliff Streets, was designed by Frank Stegerwald and constructed in 1912 of stone, metal, and wood. The Youth Baseball Complex, home to baseball and softball programs, including Sun Prairie's Little League program Sun Prairie Historical Library and Museum The Sun Prairie Firemans Park in the Prairie, a community-built park instead of in 2007 Sun Prairie Golf Course Sun Prairie Family Aquatic Center "1990 Enumeration data indicates that most Sun Prairie inhabitants drive their own vehicles to work (79.4%).
This overlap occurs in the region immediately between the urbane town/city of Madison and Sun Prairie.
I-90 runs east west through the western, central and southern portions of the state, and is positioned to the west of Sun Prairie.
A total of 187 miles (301 km) of Interstate 90 lie in Wisconsin; the Madison exit (designated 135 - B) leads to US 151 North and Sun Prairie.
The junction of I-90 and i-94 occurs approximately six miles to the southwest of Sun Prairie heading eastward toward Milwaukee at what is generally known as the "Badger Interchange" where the three interstates (I-39, I-90 and I-94) meet at the easterly end of WIS 30. Highway 151, 151 or US-151) is a motorway in Sun Prairie that runs northeast southwest athwart the easterly to southwest portions of the state.
Sun Prairie is split lengthwise by US-151, southwest to northeast, having four different access points: Windsor Street, Reiner Road, Main Street and Bristol Street.
WIS 19.svg Wisconsin Highway 19 (often called Highway 19, STH 19 or WIS 19) is a state highway which passes around the north side of Madison and crosses US-151 as it passes through Sun Prairie.
It serves as a small-town connector route that links via various interchanges the communities of Sun Prairie, Watertown and Waunakee.
The route then passed through downtown Madison and followed then WIS 31 (part of the current US-151) to Sun Prairie.
East of Sun Prairie the route followed its present-day alignment to Watertown.
The portion between Madison and Sun Prairie remained despite the debut of US-151 as did the easterly portion that became concurrent with US-16.
In 1947, the easterly end was moved to Watertown, the section along US-151 was removed, and the portion between Mazomanie and Sun Prairie was implemented. Sun Prairie is bordered by the following county roads: Grand Avenue) runs north south and borders Sun Prairie to the west and is crossed by interchange by US-151.
Sun Prairie has no municipal bus, but instead has provided a Shared Ride Taxi service for the past decade, whereby inhabitants can travel throughout the town/city for a small charge, sometimes sharing the ride with other travelers.
Although the taxi service is exclusively for the city, Shared Taxi also provides for thrice-daily shuttle service (8:30 am, 12:30pm, 4:30pm) to close-by East Towne Mall, on the northeastern edge of Madison, where commuters can connect to the Madison Metro bus system.
Dane County Regional Airport (IATA: MSN, ICAO: KMSN, FAA LID: MSN), also known as MSN Truax Field, is a commercial airport positioned 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Sun Prairie. Dane County Regional Airport has three runways and in 2006 served over 1.6 million travelers. Airlines serving the airport include American - Connection, American Eagle, Delta, Delta Connection, Frontier Airlines, United, and United Express.
Although Sun Prairie has tracks for freight trains to the south of the city, the only traveler train to serve the region is Amtrak's Empire Builder, which operates in the Midwestern and Northwestern United States.
The ridership on the train has increased slowly, averaging 16,850 per year traveling to and from Columbus, despite the populace growth in Sun Prairie.
Sun Prairie's Jimmy the Groundhog is the small-town favorite on Groundhog Day in February. The United States Congressional Record described the town/city as the "Groundhog Capital of the World" in 1955. During the city's Groundhog Day celebration on February 2, 2015, Jimmy bit Mayor Jonathan Freund's ear. The next day, Freund issued a proclamation that pardoned and absolved Jimmy "of any perceived wrongdoing and charges" under the city's ordinances. Two weeks later, Freund came in last of three candidates in the city's mayoral major election. Following the biting incident, the United States Department of Agriculture and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources declared that capturing wild animals for exhibit was against the law. Sun Prairie's next Groundhog Day celebration on February 2, 2016, featured a caged groundhog purchased for $1,200. In mid-August of each year, Sun Prairie hosts a Sweet Corn Festival, which is visited by over 100,000 citizens from all over the Midwest. Over 70 short tons (63 t)of sweet corn are served or sold amid the weekend event, which contains a carnival, a parade down Main Street and performances by small-town and county-wide musical groups. Sun Prairie on Wisconsin Highway 19 at U.S.
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