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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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Clear Lake Population: 1070 Clear Lake is a village in Polk County. Trivia: Clear Lake has 18 Christian churches, representing eight denominations. Cornell Population: 1467 Cornell is a city in Chippewa County. Trivia: Cornell has the world's only surviving pulpwood stacker. The stacker helped to launch the huge timber industry in the Northwoods of Wisconsin in the late 19th century. It was used to move large quantities of pulpwood logs, making the process of stacking wood faster, safer, and easier. The...
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Eleva Population: 670 Eleva is a village in Trempealeau County. Trivia: The village was originally named "New Chicago". The grain elevator had the letters "ELEVA" painted on it before winter struck. Newcomers assumed the letters were the name of the village. The village was founded in 1880. A post office called Eleva has been in operation since 1885. Ellsworth Population: 3284 Ellsworth is a village in and the county seat of Pierce County. Trivia: Ellsworth is known as the cheese curd capital of Wisconsin,...
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Osceola Population: 2568 Osceola is a village in Polk County. Trivia: The village was named after Osceola, chief of the Seminoles. Osseo Population: 1701 Osseo is a city located in Trempealeau County. Pepin Population: 837 Pepin is a village in Pepin County. Trivia: The author Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in the Pepin area, near Lund, Wisconsin, where her family lived. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum is in the village. Prescott Population: 4258 Prescott is a city in Pierce County. Trivia: Prescott was...
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Thorp Population: 1621 Thorp is a city in Clark County. Trivia: Filet of Soul, 60's rock band started here. Tomahawk Population: 3346 Tomahawk is a city in Lincoln County. Trivia: Tomahawk traditionally traces its founding to the establishment of the construction camps for a dam and the railroad in 1886. The company leading the effort was the Tomahawk Land and Boom Company, headed by William H. Bradley, who is thus considered to be the principal founder of Tomahawk. The Tomahawk Land and...
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Gordon Population: 645 Gordon is a town in Douglas County, Wisconsin Trivia: Jake Patterson, perpetrator of the kidnapping of Jayme Closs who is currently serving two life sentences without parole plus 40 years, was born in Gordon. Grantsburg Population: 1341 Grantsburg is a village in Burnett County, Wisconsin, United States. The village is located within the Town of Grantsburg. It was established by Canute Anderson. Trivia: Grantsburg held an early snowmobile skipping event in 1977, also known as...
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Stockholm Population: 66 Stockholm is a village in Pepin County. Trempealeau Population: 1529 Trempealeau is a village located along the Mississippi River in Trempealeau County. Trivia: An ancient Native American site with earthwork mounds, also known as Trempealeau, has been studied near the village through archeological excavations in the 21st century. It is theorized as a possible mission site or colony of Cahokia, the major center of Mississippian culture from 1000CE to 1450CE located 500 miles to...
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Solon Springs Population: 600 Solon Springs is a village in Douglas County. Trivia: Solon Springs was first called White Birch, from a grove of white birch trees near the original town site. The present name of Solon Springs honors Thomas F. Solon, who discovered mineral springs here. A post office was established as White Birch in 1885, and the name of the post office was changed to Solon Springs in 1896. Spooner Population: 2682 Spooner is a city in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States. The city...
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Trego Population: 885 Trego is a town in Washburn County. Washburn Population: 2117 Washburn is a city in Bayfield County. Trivia: Initially, the city's economy was based on lumbering, with sawmills lining the busy waterfront. It was also a popular summer resort, being especially well known for its boating and fishing. In 1905, the DuPont company opened an explosives plant just outside town, providing an important source of employment as timber resources were growing scarce. The closing of the DuPont...
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Galesville Population: 1481 Galesville is a city in Trempealeau County. Trivia: Galesville is named for its founder, Judge George Gale. Hixton Population: 433 Hixton is a village in Jackson County. Trivia: The Green Bay and Minnesota Railroad came through the area and opened a station at Hixton in 1873. The community was incorporated in 1920. Holcombe Population: 228 Holcombe is located on the Chippewa River north-northeast of Cornell, in the town of Lake Holcombe. Trivia: Holcombe was founded in...
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Iron River Population: 1123 Iron River is a town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The census-designated place of Iron River is located in the town. The unincorporated community of Topside is also located in the town. Trivia: The Bayfield County Fair takes place annually in August and includes grandstand shows, exhibitions and carnival rides. Luck Population: 1119 Luck is a village in Polk County. Trivia: Luck was originally two settlements, Luck on Big Butternut Lake, and West Denmark...
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Poplar Population: 603 Poplar is a village in Douglas County. Port Wing Population: 164 Port Wing is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Port Wing, Bayfield County. Radisson Population: 241 Radisson is a village in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Couderay River. The village is located within the Town of Radisson and was named in honor of the early French explorer, Pierre-Esprit Radisson (c.1636–1710). Shell Lake Population: 1347 Shell Lake is a city in Washburn...
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