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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]
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.
Door County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,066. [2] Its county seat is Sturgeon Bay. [3]It is named after the strait between the Door Peninsula and Washington Island.
The local club announced Friday, Feb. 9, it will no longer hold the guided walking tours that for more than 30 years gave thousands of guests an inside look at Sturgeon Bay shipyards on the first ...
The position of Long Tail Point marks the east-west division between the two masses of water. [71] Walleye found in the Sturgeon Bay and Little Sturgeon area had 87% more PCBs [g] than walleye from the western side of Green Bay at the mouth of the Oconto River. This fits what is known about the distribution of PCBs which spread from industries ...
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.
Progress, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker barge built by Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, is the largest such ship even built in the U.S. to comply with the Jones Act.
Following Sister Bay was the village of Forestville at $49,500 and ranking 444th lowest in a tie with New London in Waupaca County, the city of Sturgeon Bay at $52,917 and ranking 610th lowest, and Washington Island at $55,341 and ranking 737th lowest.