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Belgium is a village in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. Located along Interstate 43 , the village is one of the northernmost communities in the Milwaukee metropolitan area . The population was 2,245 at the 2020 census .
Belgium is a town in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States.The population was 1,513 at the 2000 census.The Village of Belgium is surrounded on all sides by the town, and the unincorporated communities of Decker, Holy Cross, Lake Church, and Sauk Trail Beach are located in the town, as is the ghost town of Stonehaven.
Wisconsin Municipalities map of counties, cities, villages, and towns. Towns in Wisconsin are similar to civil townships in other states. For a more detailed discussion, see Administrative divisions of Wisconsin#Town. Frequently a village or city may have the same name as a town. As of 2006, Wisconsin had 1,260 towns, some with the same name.
Harrington Beach State Park is a 715-acre (289 ha) Wisconsin state park [1] on the shore of Lake Michigan in the Town of Belgium. In addition to a mile-long beach, the park contains a white cedar swamp surrounding a 26-acre (11 ha) lake that used to be a stone quarry. The park provides campgrounds, hiking trails, picnic, and bird watch areas.
Holy Cross is an unincorporated community located in the town of Belgium in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. [2] [3] Holy Cross is located just east of Fredonia and southwest of Belgium. Holy Cross, like nearby Dacada, was settled by immigrants from Luxembourg in the 1840s and 1850s. The name for the community comes from the former ...
The Town of Port Washington was formed in January 1846 and until 1847 included the surrounding areas of Fredonia, Saukville, and Belgium. [9] At the time, the land was part of Washington County , and in the late 1840s, Port Washington was a candidate for the county seat.
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 ...
Houses were typically built out of either red brick or limestone, with frame outbuildings. In the 1860 and 1870 censuses Wisconsin had a higher percentage of Belgian-origin residents than any other state. The area around the village of Namur was judged in a wide-ranging survey of Belgian-settled areas to best represent this influx. [4]