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Brown County's southern portion was used to form Milwaukee County in 1834. The state of Wisconsin was created from Wisconsin Territory on May 29, 1848, with 28 counties. The most populous county in the state is Milwaukee County at 916,205 people at the 2023 Census estimate. The county with the least population is Menominee County with 4,226 ...
County Wisconsin counties (clickable map) The county is the primary political subdivision of Wisconsin. Every county has a county seat, often a populous or centrally located city or village, where the government offices for the county are located. Within each county are cities, villages and towns. As of 2016, Wisconsin had 72 counties.
Location and size Location of Wisconsin in the United States. Wisconsin is located in the East North Central United States, and is considered to be a part of the Midwest. The state has a total area of 65,496 square miles (169,630 km 2), making it the 23rd largest U.S. State.
Professor Lawrence Martin created a schema for dividing Wisconsin into geographical regions in his work "The Physical Geography of Wisconsin". [1] [2] Western Upland. Eastern Ridges and Lowlands. Central Plain. Northern Highland. Lake Superior Lowland. Three of these geographical provinces are uplands and two are lowlands.
Wisconsin tartan. Wisconsin ( / wɪˈskɒnsɪn / ⓘ wisk-ON-sin) [13] is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north.
List of cities in Wisconsin. Cities of Wisconsin at night in 2012, as seen through the window of the International Space Station. The partial view of Minneapolis at top is part of neighboring Minnesota. Wisconsin is a state located in the Midwestern United States. As of January 1, 2021, there were 190 cities in Wisconsin, and 1,883 municipalities.
Prisons. Chippewa Valley Correctional Treatment Facility (formerly Highview; inmate operating capacity 450) Columbia Correctional Institution (capacity 541) Dodge Correctional Institution. Fox Lake Correctional Institution. Green Bay Correctional Institution. Jackson Correctional Institution (capacity 988) Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution.
Website. manitowoccountywi .gov. Manitowoc County ( / ˈmænɪtəwɒk / MAN-it-ə-wok) is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 81,359. [2] Its county seat is Manitowoc. [3] The county was created in 1836 prior to Wisconsin's statehood and organized in 1848. [4]