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A general map of Wisconsin. Wisconsin, a state in the Midwestern United States, has a vast and diverse geography famous for its landforms created by glaciers during the Wisconsin glaciation 17,000 years ago. The state can be generally divided into five geographic regions—Lake Superior Lowland, Northern Highland, Central Plain, Eastern Ridges ...
The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is a U.S. national lakeshore consisting of 21 islands ( Apostle Islands) and shoreline encompassing 69,540 acres (28,140 ha) [1] on the northern tip of Wisconsin on the shore of Lake Superior . It is known for its collection of historic lighthouses, sandstone sea caves, a few old-growth remnant forests ...
Geography. Location. Lake Superior. Coordinates. 46°57′55″N 90°39′51″W. / 46.96528°N 90.66417°W / 46.96528; -90.66417. The Apostle Islands are a group of 22 islands in Lake Superior, off the Bayfield Peninsula in northern Wisconsin. [1] The majority of the islands are located in Ashland County —only Sand, York, Eagle, and ...
Devils Island is one of the twenty-two Apostle Islands of northern Wisconsin (USA), and has also been known as Louisiana Island ( Henry R. Schoolcraft 's 1820 map), Barney and Lamborn's Island ( Asaph Whittlesey 's 1871 map), Brownstone Island, and Rabbit Island. The island is located in western Lake Superior off the Bayfield Peninsula, is ...
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 is the 20th-largest state by population and 23rd-largest state by area. It is divided into 72 counties and as of the 2020 census had a population of nearly 5.9 million. [ 14] Its most populous city is Milwaukee, while its capital and second-most populous city is Madison.
The history of Wisconsin encompasses the story not only of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin when it was a territory.
The Chippewa River in Wisconsin flows approximately 183 miles (294 km) through west-central and northwestern Wisconsin. It was once navigable for approximately 50 miles (80 km) of its length, from the Mississippi River, by Durand, northeast to Eau Claire. Its catchment defines a portion of the northern boundary of the Driftless Area.