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Iowa County was formed in 1829 from the Crawford County land south of the Wisconsin River. [1] Brown County's southern portion was used to form Milwaukee County in 1834. [1] The state of Wisconsin was created from Wisconsin Territory on May 29, 1848, with 28 counties.
Professor Lawrence Martin created a schema for dividing Wisconsin into geographical regions in his work "The Physical Geography of Wisconsin". [1] [2] Western Upland; Eastern Ridges and Lowlands; Central Plain; Northern Highland; Lake Superior Lowland; Three of these geographical provinces are uplands and two are lowlands.
Wisconsin Municipalities map of counties, cities, villages, and towns. The administrative divisions of Wisconsin include counties, cities, villages and towns. In Wisconsin, all of these are units of general-purpose local government. There are also a number of special-purpose districts formed to handle regional concerns, such as school districts ...
Green Lake County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,018. [1] Its county seat is Green Lake. [2] In 2020, the center of population of Wisconsin was located in Green Lake County, near the city of Markesan. [3]
There are over 15,000 lakes in Wisconsin. Of these, about 40 percent have been named. Excluding Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, Lake Winnebago is the largest lake by area, largest by volume and the lake with the longest shoreline. The deepest lake is Wazee Lake, at 350 feet (107 meters). The deepest natural lake is Green Lake, at
Wisconsin is bordered by Lake Superior in the north and Lake Michigan in the east. [37] The state has over 15,000 named lakes, totaling about 1 million acres (4,000 km 2). Within Wisconsin, Lakes Superior and Michigan total 6.4 million acres (26,000 km 2). [38] Along the two great lakes, Wisconsin has over 500 miles (800 km) of shoreline. [39]
The Eagle River is a tributary of the Wisconsin River in northeastern Wisconsin in the United States.Via the Wisconsin River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 181.7 square miles (470.6 km 2) in the state's Northern Highland region.
The following is a list of named islands of the state of Wisconsin. According to the USGS, there are 431 named islands, [1] and many more unnamed ones among Wisconsin's 15,074 lakes. [2] Wisconsin borders both Lake Michigan and Lake Superior producing many of the state's islands.