Armenia, Wisconsin
Armenia is a town in Juneau County, Wisconsin, Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 707 at the United States Census 2000, 2000 census. The unincorporated community of New Miner is located in the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 77.7 square miles (201.2 km), of which, 66.0 square miles (170.9 km) of it is land and 11.7 square miles (30.3 km) of it (15.05%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 707 people, 267 households, and 190 families residing in the town. The population density was 10.7 people per square mile (4.1/km). There were 448 housing units at an average density of 6.8 per square mile (2.6/km). The racial makeup of the town was 90.10% White (U.S. Census), White, 0.14% African American (U.S. Census), African American, 0.71% Native American (U.S. Census), Native American, 0.14% Pacific Islander (U.S. Census), Pacific Islander, 7.92% from Ra ...
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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, ...
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