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Vesper (Wisconsin)
Résumé
Vesper is a village in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 584 at the 2010 census.
The village of Vesper began to form in the early 1870s when Girard and Drake built a sawmill on Hemlock Creek to process lumber from the surrounding forests. Their firm also started a store and blacksmith shop. A post office called Vesper opened in 1878. The village was named after vesper sparrows native to the area. In 1894 a wildfire swept in from the woods and burned the mill, along with 23 houses on the west side of the creek.
After the fire, the surrounding stump-land was sold to farmers. The village of Vesper was platted in 1897 or 98. Carsten Otto started a creamery in 1898. In 1902 John Murgatroyd & Sons started the Vesper Brick & Tile Factory, which operated until the start of WWI. A two-room brick school was built in 1906. In 1907 The Vesper Wood Manufacturing Company began making stave silos and watering tanks out of wood. The State Bank of Vesper opened in 1911. The village incorporated in 1948.
Vesper is located at (44.481016, -89.967423).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land.
As of the census of 2010, there were 584 people, 246 households, and 160 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 264 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 96.7% White, 0.7% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.2% from other races, and 2.1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.0% of the population.
There were 246 households, of which 28.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.8% were married couples living together, 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.7% had a male householder with no wife present, and 35.0% were non-families. 26.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.84.
The median age in the village was 36.
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