Editing Hansen, Wisconsin

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The '''Town of Hansen''' is located in [[Wood County, Wisconsin|Wood County]], [[Wisconsin]], United States. The population was 707 at the 2000 census.

==History==
In the summer of 1851 crews working for the U.S. government [[Surveying|surveyed]] the outline of the six mile square that would become Hansen. That November another crew marked all the [[Section (United States land surveying)|section corners]], walking through the woods and wading the swamps, measuring with [[Gunter's chain|chain]] and [[Solar compass|compass]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Land Survey Information|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SurveyNotes/SurveyInfo.html|publisher=Board of Commissioners of Public Lands|accessdate=March 26, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Field Notes for T23N R4E|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/SurveyNotes/SurveyNotes-idx?type=PLSS&twp=T023NR004E|work=Original Field Notes and Plat Maps, 1833-1866|publisher=Board of Commissioners of Public Lands|accessdate=May 17, 2013}}</ref> When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description:
<blockquote>''The general character of this Township is swampy although there is some good land in it  the soil is poor & being somewhat stony renders it almost valueless for farming purposes the timber is large & generally of (?) growth except the [[Eastern white pine|Pine]] which is mostly 2d growth & very poor. the streams are fed by the swamps and are subject to very sudden rise & fall the timber is of various kinds such as [[Acer saccharinum|soft-maple]] [[Acer saccharum|sugar]] Pine ([[Larix laricina|TamaracK]] & [[alder]] in the swamps) [[Tilia americana|Linn]] [[Oak]] [[Fraxinus|Ash]] [[Ostrya virginiana|Ironwood]] +c, the stone are a Blue Flint.''<ref>{{cite web|last=Ellis|first=Albert G.|title=Interior Field Notes (Nov. 1851)|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/SurveyNotes/SurveyNotes-idx?type=article&byte=2426530&twp=T023NR004E|publisher=Board of Commissioners of Public Lands|accessdate=2013-05-17|author2=Ellis, Frederick S.}}</ref></blockquote>

The Town of Hansen was established in 1901 and named after the now-extinct railroad hamlet of Hansen.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.mcmillanlibrary.org/files/docs/placenames.pdf | title=Wood County Place Names | publisher=The University of Wisconsin Press | author=Rudolph, Robert S. | year=1970 | page=34}}</ref>

==Geography==
The town is roughly a six-mile square. According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|33.9|sqmi|km2}}, all of it land.

==Demographics==
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2" /> of 2000, there were 707 people, 255 households, and 197 families residing in the town. The [[population density]] was 20.9 people per square mile (8.1/km<sup>2</sup>). There were 272 housing units at an average density of 8.0 per square mile (3.1/km<sup>2</sup>). The racial makeup of the town was 99.43% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.14% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], and 0.42% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 0.57% of the population.

There were 255 households, out of which 34.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.8% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 3.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.4% were non-families. 20.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.77 and the average family size was 3.20.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 27.0% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 23.6% from 45 to 64, and 12.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 109.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 111.5 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $41,932, and the median income for a family was $44,773. Males had a median income of $31,719 versus $24,861 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the town was $16,159. About 3.9% of families and 5.3% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 6.8% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.townofhansen.com Town of Hansen, Wisconsin]
* {{GNIS|1583348|Town of Hansen}}. Retrieved 2008-04-29.
* {{cite web
 |url        = https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=hansen&state=WI&zip=
 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20121212050219/http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=hansen&state=WI&zip=
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-date = December 12, 2012
 |title      = U.S. Gazetteer
 |publisher  = [[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau Home Page]]
 |access-date = April 29, 2008
}}
* [http://images.library.wisc.edu/awareImageServer/SurveyNotesImageNav.jsp?collection=SurveyNotes&resource=PlatMaps/TN23/reference/002304EA.jp2 1852 plat map covering town of Hansen]
* [http://content.mpl.org/u?/mcml,432 1896 plat map]
* [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=article&did=WI.AtlasWood09.i0023&id=WI.AtlasWood09&isize=XL 1909 plat map]
* [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=article&did=WI.AtlasWood28.i0024&id=WI.AtlasWood28&isize=XL 1928 plat map]
* [http://content.mpl.org/u?/mcml,8167 1956 plat map]

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[[Category:Towns in Wood County, Wisconsin]]
[[Category:Towns in Wisconsin]]