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About this City Journal

    My name is Yon Yonson,
    I come from Wisconsin
    I work in a lumber mill there
    All the people I meet
    As I walk down the street
    Ask me how in the hell I got there
    So I tell them: My name is Yon Yonson...

      - Unknown

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What do you get when you put a whole lotta cheese, vats of beer, BBQ'ed bratwurst, Harry Houdini, loads of lumber, ornery badgers, real Nazis, and neo-Nazis, butter-fried everything, Orson Welles, buckets of sauerkraut, polka bands, 2 notorious cannibals, herds of cows, suicidal fish, Liberace, German, French, Scandinavian and Belgian nationalities, 4 Superbowl wins, a so-so baseball team, amazing landscapes, an anti-Communist Senator, riots and protests, a decent basketball team, Heather Graham, 4 sit-coms, Oktoberfest, lederhosen, Harley-Davidson, vineyards, heavy machinery and tools, native Americans, toilet paper, casinos, Slendermen, cranberries, farms, Willem Dafoe, mountaintop cathedrals and....snow

lots and lots of snow...

all in one state? You get Wisconsin. Presenting a SimCity4 travel tour of 360 of it's biggest(sorta) cities in 9 seperate regions. Enjoy.

 


Capital: Madison
Population (2020) 5,893,718
Admitted to the Union    May 29, 1848 (30th)


  Wisconsin is a state in the upper Midwestern United States, bordered by 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. Wisconsin is the 23rd-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous.

Milwaukee, its largest city, sits on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The state capital, Madison, is currently the second most populated and fastest growing city in the state. Green Bay and Kenosha, the third and fourth most populated Wisconsin cities respectively, also sit on  the western shores of Lake Michigan. The state is divided into 72 counties.

Wisconsin's geography is diverse, having been greatly impacted by glaciers during the Ice Age with the exception of the Driftless Area. The Northern Highland and Western Upland along with a part of the Central Plain occupies the western part of the state, with lowlands stretching to the shore of Lake Michigan. Wisconsin is third to Ontario and Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline.

At the time of European contact, the area that is now Wisconsin was inhabited by Algonquian and Siouan nations. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, many European settlers entered the state, many of whom emigrated from Germany and Scandinavia. Like neighboring Minnesota, the state remains a center of German American and Scandinavian American culture. The state is one of the nation's leading dairy producers and is known as "America's Dairyland" It is particularly famous for its cheese. The state is also famous for its beer, particularly and historically in Milwaukee. Manufacturing (especially paper products), information technology, cranberries, ginseng, and tourism are also major contributors to the state's economy.

 

 

 

 

 

Entries in this City Journal

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Mineral Point Population: 2625 Mineral Point is a city in Iowa County. Trivia: Large quantities of galena, or lead ore, were discovered around the settlement in shallow deposits. Lead had many uses at the time, and settlers began to flock to the region hoping to make a living by extracting the easily accessible mineral. Monroe Population: 10827 Monroe is a city in and the county seat of Green County. Trivia: Known as "the Swiss Cheese...
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Marquette Population: 150 Marquette is a village in Green Lake County. Trivia: According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.39 square miles. Mauston Population: 4411 Mauston is a city in and the county seat of Juneau County. Trivia: Mauston was founded by Milton M. Maughs. The town was originally named Maughs Town, after him. The town's beginning was based on the lumber industry of early Wisconsin. ...
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La Valle Population: 367 La Valle is a village in Sauk County. Trivia: A post office called La Valle has been in operation since 1856. Lake Mills Population: 5708 Lake Mills is a city in Jefferson County. Trivia: In 1866 the village changed its name to "Tyranena", but changed it back again to "Lake Mills" the next year. Lancaster Population: 3868 Lancaster is a city in and the county seat of Grant County....
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Hazel Green Population: 1256 Hazel Green is a village in Grant and Lafayette counties. Trivia: In 1825, the village was named from dense growth of American Hazelnut near the town site. Highland Population: 842 Highland is a village in Iowa County. Hillsboro Population: 1417 Friendship is a village in Adams County. Janesville Population: 64245 Janesville is a city in Rock...
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Fitchburg Population: 25260 Fitchburg is a city in Dane County. Trivia: Fitchburg was a town until its incorporation as a city on April 26, 1983. Dutch immigrant brothers Vroman are claimed to be the first permanent settlers of Greenfield, then changed to Fitchburg to avoid confusion with Greenfield, Milwaukee county. Fox Lake Population: 1519 Fox Lake is a city in Dodge County. Trivia: Fox Lake Correctional Institution is located in Fox Lake...
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Dodgeville Population: 4693 Dodgeville is a city in and the county seat of Iowa County. Trivia: In 1827, Henry Dodge, his family, and about 40 miners began what would become the city of Dodgeville. Dodge made a pact with the local Winnebago Indian leaders so he could build a cabin and smelter. The original community had three settlements: "Dodgeville", "Dirty Hollow" and "Minersville". Edgerton Population: 5364 Edgerton is a city in Rock County...
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Columbus Population: 4991 Columbus is a city in Columbia (mostly) and Dodge Counties. Trivia: The Redbud Festival occurs in May around Mother's Day. Each year the community crowns a prince and princess during the budding of the "Columbus Wisconsin Strain" of the redbud tree. Cuba City Population: 2086 Cuba City is a city partly in Grant County and partly in Lafayette County. Trivia: The name "Yuba City" was finally picked after a dispute about the...
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Brodhead Population: 3203 Brodhead is a city in Green and Rock counties. Trivia: A nearby raceway was dredged off of a branch of the Sugar River that diverted a long canal to a hydroelectric generator that supplied electricity to the town. This gave Brodhead the distinction of having electrical service before other larger cities such as Chicago, and perhaps the first electrical service in Wisconsin. Cambridge Population: 1457 Cambridge is a village...
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South Central Wisconsin Part 2 Beloit Population: 36836 Beloit is a city in Rock County. Trivia: Robin Wayne Zander of Cheap Trick Berlin Population: 5524 Berlin is a city in Green Lake and Waushara counties, Trivia: In 1845, Nathan H. Strong (1813–1852) became the first resident of what is today Berlin. He was joined by Hugh G. Martin, Hiram Barnes, and William Dickey. Their settlement was known as Strong's Landing. In 1848 a post office was...
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South Central Wisconsin Population: 676919 Adams Population: 1967 Adams is a city in Adams County. Trivia: Adams was originally called South Friendship, but after a petition from residents who did not like the name, the Chicago and North Western Railway changed it to Adams due to its short nature. Argyle Population: 857 Argyle is a village in Lafayette County. Trivia: The first settler named it after the Duke of Argyll who had sponsored his coming to...
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Stoddard Population: 774 Stoddard is a village in Vernon County. Trivia: Stoddard was founded as a farming community. It is notable as one of the few communities along the Mississippi River that was never a trading post or a riverboat stop. The river was originally one mile west of Stoddard, but when Lock and Dam No. 8 was built in 1937, the ensuing lake flooded the lowlands, literally bringing the river to the town. Viroqua Population: 4362 Viroqua is...
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Genoa Population: 253 Genoa is a village in Vernon County. Trivia: Originally named Bad Axe for the river, the present-day Genoa name came in 1868. Kickapoo River The Kickapoo River is a 126-mile-long tributary of the Wisconsin River La Crosse Population: 51666 La Crosse is a city and the county seat of La Crosse County. Trivia: La Crosse's tap drinking water, which is raised from a deep underground Artesian aquifer, won the...
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South West Wisconsin Population: 84100 Beetown Population: 734 Beetown is a town in Grant County. Trivia: Local settler Cyrus Alexander discovered a 425 pounds (193 kg) block of lead under a bee tree, naming it bee lead, which eventually spawned the name of the town. Bridgeport Population: 946 Bridgeport is a town in Crawford County. Trivia: The Bridgeport Bridge was an unusually long bridge in Bridgeport that was documented by the Historic American...
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Green Bay Population: 107,395 Green Bay is a city and the county seat of Brown County. Trivia: Samuel de Champlain, the founder of New France, commissioned Jean Nicolet to form a peaceful alliance with Native Americans in the western areas, whose unrest interfered with French fur trade, and to search for a shorter trade route to China through Canada. Nicolet and others had learned from other First Nations of the Ho-Chunk people, who identified as "People of the Sea", and believed they must...
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Washington Island Population: 708 Washington Island is a city in Door County. Trivia: Washington Island hosts the Midwest region's largest lavender farm. Wausaukee Population: 521 Wausaukee is a village in Marinette County. Trivia: Wausaukee is a Menominee word that means “river in the hills.” The town was started in 1863 by John S. Monroe, who bought 160 acres of land from business tycoon Lars Kovala and built a mill to supply the railroads with lumber for bridges...
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Sturgeon Bay Population: 8885 Sturgeon Bay is a city in and the county seat of Door County. Trivia: The community was first recorded as Graham in 1855 but, in 1857, the state legislature organized it as the town of Ottumba. Subsequently, the name was reverted to Graham and, in 1860, a petition was submitted to the county board to change the community's name to that of the adjacent bay. In 1874, Sturgeon Bay was incorporated as a village. It became a city in 1883. Townsend ...
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Pulaski Population: 3539 Pulaski is a village in Brown, Oconto, and Shawano counties. Trivia: Pulaski is host to the annual "Pulaski Polka Days", one of the largest festivals dedicated to the Polish in the United States. The festival draws polka bands from around the country. It closes with a Polka Day parade and traditional Polish Catholic Mass. Reedsville Population: 1129 Reedsville is a village in Manitowoc County. Trivia: The village was named after Judge George...
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Oconto Population: 4513 Oconto is a city in Oconto County. Trivia: The first Christian Science church in the world was erected in 1886 in Oconto and still stands at the corner of Main Street and Chicago Street. In the summer of 1952, during a two-day period, an estimated 175,000,000 Leopard frogs emerged from nearby marshes and enveloped the town. The water level of Lake Michigan rose in the spring, flooding the wetlands. The Leopard frogs laid their eggs, and when the lake level receded with...
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Menasha Population: 18498 Menasha is a city in Calumet and Winnebago counties. Trivia: Menasha is home to the Barlow Planetarium and Weis Earth Science Museum, both housed at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley. Mishicot Population: 1457 Mishicot is a village in Manitowoc County. Trivia: The early settlers of the village and the surrounding rural farmlands came from a number of countries, but most prominently from Germany, Bohemia, Switzerland and Canada. In 1852, the...
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Langlade Population: 19977 Langlade is a town in Langlade County. Trivia: Langlade is mentioned in the song "Champagne in Sweatpants", on the album Separation Sunday by The Hold Steady, in reference to "gettin' langlazed." Little Chute Population: 10449 Little Chute is a village in Outagamie County. Trivia: While some homes are decorated with windmills and other symbols of Dutch culture, the use of the Dutch language and day-to-day culture has all but discontinued. A tradition...
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Jacksonport Population: 714 Jacksonport is a town in Door County. Trivia: At what is now Jacksonport was once a Potawatomi village called Medemoya-Seebe, or "old woman's creek". Kaukauna Population: 15462 Kaukauna is a city in Outagamie and Calumet counties. Trivia: Kaukauna cheese, once made in the city, is now manufactured by the Bel/Kaukauna corporation in the neighboring village of Little Chute. Keshena Population: 1262 Keshena is a census-designated place...
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Ephraim Population: 268 Ephraim is a village in Door County. Trivia: The village was founded in 1853 by the Reverend Andreas Iverson as a Moravian religious community. Fish Creek Population: 997 Fish Creek is an unincorporated community. Trivia: Fish Creek sits on the site of a Menominee and Ojibwa village known as Ma-go-she-kah-ning, or "trout fishing" Fremont Population: 679 Fremont is a village in Waupaca County. Trivia: This area is of the traditional home...
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De Pere Population: 24903 De Pere is a city located in Brown County. Trivia: Stephen King Denmark Population: 2200 Denmark is a village in Brown County. Trivia: In 1854, the residents of Brown County, Wisconsin voted on whether Green Bay or De Pere would be the county seat. This was also the year that the residents of Denmark wanted to build a church, but they did not have any money. A man from De Pere came to the town, and offered to pay two dollars for every vote the people of...
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Brillion Population: 3126 Brillion is a city in Calumet County. Trivia: Brillion is named after the town of Brilon, in Germany. Brussels Population: 1105 Brussels is a town in Door County. Trivia: The largest Belgian-American settlement in the United States is located in portions of Brown, Kewaunee, and Door counties in Wisconsin, adjacent to the waters of Green Bay. Walloons settled the region in the 1850s and their descendants still constitute a high proportion of the population....
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East Central Wisconsin Population: 441268 Algoma Population: 3059 Algoma is a city in Kewaunee County. Trivia: The settlement Ahnapee which eventually became known as Algoma was founded in 1834 by Joseph McCormick of Manitowoc. In 1851, Irish and English pioneers moved to the area and called the place Wolf River. This was a loose translation from the Indian word An-Ne-Pe, meaning "land of the great gray wolf." The wolf was a legendary animal in stories told by the local Potawatomi Indians. In the...
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