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St. Croix County of 1840 and today. St. Croix County was created on August 3, 1840, [5] by the legislature of the Wisconsin Territory. It was named after the river on its western border. [6] Sources vary on the name's origin. The St. Croix River may have been named after an explorer named St. Croix who drowned at the river's mouth in the late ...
Sturgeon Bay is a city in and the county seat of Door County, Wisconsin, United States. [3] The population was 9,646 at the 2020 census . Located at the bay of Sturgeon Bay for which it is named, it is the most-populous city on the Door Peninsula , a popular Upper Midwest vacation destination.
Potawatomi State Park is a 1,225-acre (496 ha) Wisconsin state park northwest of the city of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin in the Town of Nasewaupee. It is located in Door County along Sturgeon Bay, a bay within the bay of Green Bay. Potawatomi State Park was established in 1928. [1]
Hudson is a city in and the county seat of St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2020 census , its population was 14,755. [ 2 ] It is part of the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area.
Sturgeon Bay is an arm of Green Bay extending southeastward approximately 10 miles into the Door Peninsula at the city of Sturgeon Bay, located approximately halfway up the Door Peninsula. [1] The bay is connected to Lake Michigan by the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal. The Potawatomi name for Sturgeon Bay is "Na-ma-we-qui-tong". [2]
A Potawatomi village on the eastern shore (now the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal) was known as Onegahning, which means "to carry a canoe back and forth". [4]According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 35.2 square miles (91.1 km 2), of which, 19.3 square miles (50.0 km 2) of it is land and 15.9 square miles (41.1 km 2) of it (45.08%) is water.
Alongside farming changes in St. Croix County, water contamination worsened in recent decades.The county's share of private wells with unsafe nitrate concentrations rose from 10% to 13% between ...
Moffat was a judge, originally from New York. The building is now the museum of the St. Croix County Historical Society. [35] 22: New Richmond Commercial Historic District: December 22, 2022 : Bounded by rear properties facing South Knowles Ave., Willow R., and 3rd St.