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Menominee is Townships 28 (part) and 29 (part) North, Ranges 1 (part) and 2 (part) West of the Fourth Principal Meridian. According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 30.54 square miles (79.1 km 2), of which 28 square miles (73 km 2) (or 91.68%) is land and 2.54 square miles (6.6 km 2) (or 8.32%) is water.
Menominee is a village in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States. The population was 248 at the 2010 census, up from 237 in 2000. The population was 248 at the 2010 census, up from 237 in 2000. The village is located on the Little Menominee River near East Dubuque and Galena.
Freeport is a small industrial city of 24,000 in northwest Illinois. For a price tag of $13 million, it's building a new public water system to tap deep into new, uncontaminated water sources.
The state of Illinois would not allow the canal to be constructed out of its funds; therefore, during the remainder of the 1860s, several legislatures, most notably those from Iowa, Illinois, and New York, endeavored to establish the canal with government backing. Ulysses S. Grant, a resident of Illinois, was elected president in 1868. Because ...
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency Thursday for Menominee County in response to a large-scale paper mill fire.
The Little Menominee River is a 13.9-mile-long (22.4 km) [1] tributary of the Upper Mississippi River, which it joins in Jo Daviess County, Illinois. [2] The Little Menominee rises in Grant County, Wisconsin. It flows south, to the east of the Menominee River, into Illinois.
The name "Menominee" refers to the Menominee, a Native American people. The name means "good seed" or "wild rice". The Menominee rises in Grant County, Wisconsin at the confluence of Louisburg and Kieler creeks one mile south of Kieler just east of U.S. Route 151 and flows south past Sandy Hook and enters Illinois just south of Wisconsin ...
The Riverside site is located on a sandy tract of land near Menominee's Riverside Cemetery. [3] The area is covered with low hills and ridges, and is primarily sandy with a thin cover of sod. [3] The archaeological site is located on a high sand dune overlooking the Menominee River. [3]