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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.
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]
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The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal is a ship canal connecting Sturgeon Bay with Lake Michigan across the Door Peninsula in Door County, Wisconsin. [1] [2] A dredged channel continues through Sturgeon Bay to Green Bay. This combined waterway allows ships to sail between Lake Michigan and Green Bay without traversing the dangerous Porte des Morts strait.
The proposed Sturgeon Bay area for the Green Bay NERR includes shoreline and some inland areas on the west side of the Sturgeon Bay canal along with areas on the other side of the canal east of 42 ...
Door County's name came from Porte des Morts ("Death's Door"), the passage between the tip of Door Peninsula and Washington Island. [5] The name "Death's Door" came from Native American tales, heard by early French explorers and published in greatly embellished form by Hjalmar Holand, which described a failed raid by the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) tribe to capture Washington Island from the rival ...
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.