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    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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Rothschild Population: 5269 Rothschild is a village in Marathon County. Trivia: One of the larger employers in Rothschild is the Domtar Paper Mill. The mill was originally built between 1909 and 1910 by a group of local lumber barons. Schofield Population: 2169 Schofield is a city in Marathon County. Trivia: The city was named for William Scholfield, who came to the area in the 1851 to open a sawmill. The city has since dropped the "L" from its name. Spencer Population: 1925 Spencer...
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Wilton Population: 504 Wilton is a village in Monroe County. Wisconsin Dells Population: 2841 Wisconsin Dells is a city in Wisconsin, straddling four counties: Adams, Columbia, Juneau, and Sauk. Trivia: The city of Wisconsin Dells was founded in 1856 by the Wisconsin Hydraulic Company, a dam-building and real estate investment business. The town was originally named Kilbourn City for Byron Kilbourn, the president of the...
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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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Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians Population: ? Holy Hill Basilica and National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians is a Roman Catholic shrine in the north central United States, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Trivia: Tradition says that the hill was first discovered by Europeans 350 years ago in 1673 by Father Jacques Marquette with Louis Jolliet. However, modern historians view this tradition as untrue, though Jesuits were likely the...
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Ogema Population: 882 Ogema is a town in Price County. Trivia: Notable people: Pep Simek, businessman, co-founder of Tombstone pizza. Owen Population: 940 Owen is a city in Clark County. Trivia: In 1893 the John S. Owen Company of Eau Claire managed to buy from J.D. Spaulding 400 square miles of virgin timber that ran from the current site of Owen north through Taylor County and into Rusk County. Near where the railroad crossed Brick Creek and that creek flowed into the Popple River, the...
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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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Eagle River Population: 1398 Eagle River is a city in Vilas County. Trivia: Eagle River is known as the "Snowmobile Capital of the World" because of the World Championship Snowmobile Derby held for over 50 years at an ice oval on the north side of the city. There are over 500 miles of groomed snowmobile trails in the county. The World Snowmobile Headquarters and International Snowmobile Hall of Fame are located in Eagle River. Florence Population: 457 Florence is a town in Florence County. Trivia: Most...
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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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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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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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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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Polar Population: 984 Polar is a town in Langlade County. Prentice Population: 660 Prentice is a village in Price County. Trivia: Prentice began as a lumber town, when Alexander Prentice of Portage formed the Jump River Lumber Company in 1882. The mill there sawed as much as 100,000 board feet of lumber a day until timber in the surrounding country dwindled in the 1890s. Redgranite Population: 2149 Redgranite is a village in Waushara County. Trivia: The village was named after...
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Bruce Population: 779 Bruce is a village in Rusk County. Trivia: It was named for Alanson C. Bruce who operated a logging camp in the area. Cadott Population: 1437 Cadott is a village in Chippewa County. Trivia: Cadott has the distinction of being geographically equidistant from the Equator and North Pole. Billboards on Hwy. 27 between Cadott and Cornell offer tourists the opportunity to be photographed by the unusual signs. Cameron Population: 1783 Cameron is a village in Barron County. Trivia: The...
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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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Knapp Population: 556 Knapp is a village in Dunn County. Trivia: The village was named for John Holly Knapp, an executive in the lumber industry. Ladysmith Population: 3414 Ladysmith is a city and the county seat of Rusk County. Trivia: The Flambeau Copper Mine was operated by Kennecott from 1993 to 1997. This was a very rich volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposit, so rich that the ore was shipped directly to the smelter. Flambeau has since been closed and the site reclaimed. Maiden Rock Population:...
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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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River Falls Population: 15000 River Falls is a city in Pierce and St. Croix counties. Trivia: On June 23, 1893, a lightning bolt hit the center circus pole at a Ringling Brothers circus performance in River Falls, injuring more than a dozen audience members and performers and killing seven. Somerset Population: 2635 Somerset is a village in St. Croix County. Trivia: Before the turn of the century Somerset was bordered on the south by cranberry bogs. The terrain naturally lent itself to the production of...
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Central Wisconsin

Central Wisconsin Population: 249323 Abbotsford Population: 1616 Abbotsford is a city in Clark and Marathon counties. Trivia: In 1872, the Wisconsin Central Railroad cleared its right of way through the forest which would become Abbotsford, heading north for Ashland. Rails were built through the town site in 1874. In 1879 the directors of the Wisconsin Central decided to build west from Colby to Chippewa Falls, to connect there with the Chippewa Falls & Western and ultimately St. Paul. However, they...
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Barron Population: 3423 Barron is a city in Barron County. Trivia: On October 15, 2018, Jake Thomas Patterson abducted American 13-year-old Jayme Lynn Closs from her family's home in Barron, Wisconsin. The attack took place at 12:53 a.m after he forced his way inside and fatally shot her parents. Patterson took Closs to a house 70 miles away in rural Gordon, Wisconsin, and held her in captivity for 88 days until she escaped on January 10, 2019. Bay City Population: 500 Bay City is a village on the...
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Shullsburg Population: 1226 Shullsburg is a city in Lafayette County. Trivia: Shullsburg was founded during the 1820s in parts by Jason Shull and Henry Gratiot and due to their ventures into lead mining. Following the Black Hawk War conflict Gratiot and other small settlements consolidated into Shullsburg. In 1841 Missionary Priest Samuel Mazzuchelli platted the Northeast section of town and named the streets after the virtues of life. Spring Green ...
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Park Falls Population: 2462 Park Falls is a city in Price County. Trivia: The city began in the late 19th century as a small river village called Muskellunge Falls. It was later renamed Park Falls for the scenic beauty surrounding the former falls on the south side of town. With a pulp and paper mill, the town grew rapidly and was incorporated as a city in 1912. Pembine Population: 1036 Pembine is a town in Marinette County. Trivia: Several fatal rail disasters occurred in Pembine. In 1899, two railroad...
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Mellen Population: 731 Mellen is a city in Ashland County. Trivia: Copper Falls State Park is located just north of Mellen. Mercer Population: 1782 Mercer is a town in southern Iron County. Trivia: Mercer identifies itself as the "Loon Capital of the World" to promote tourism. A wildlife study found Mercer had the highest concentration of common loons in the world. In front of the Mercer Chamber of Commerce's information center, there is a 16-foot, 2,000-pound statue named "Claire de Loon". Montreal ...
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The Lumber Industry: The Industry That Changed the State By the late 19th century, Wisconsin was one of the premier lumber producing states in the U.S. Logging was not very popular among the state's first white settlers, however. Throughout most of the 1830s, logging was carried out on a small scale around Prairie du Chien, Portage and Green Bay. The lumber industry began to develop after the Menominee Nation was forced to cede much of central and eastern Wisconsin to the U.S. in 1836. But the industry...
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Mondovi Population: 2777 Mondovi is a city along the Buffalo River in Buffalo County. Trivia: The city was named in commemoration of the Battle of Mondovì. Nelson Population: 374 Nelson is a village in Buffalo County. Trivia: The village's primary destination for tourists is the 100-year-old Nelson Cheese Factory. New Auburn Population: 558 New Auburn is a village in Barron and Chippewa counties. New Richmond Population: 8375 New Richmond is a city in St. Croix County. Trivia: On the early evening of...
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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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