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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.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a government-owned corporation created by U.S. Code Title 16, Chapter 12A, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.It was initially founded as an agency to provide general economic development to the region through power generation, flood control, navigation assistance, fertilizer manufacturing, and agricultural development.
The regions of Wisconsin, as described by the Wisconsin DNR. The Wisconsin DNR uses the following regions [3]. Northern (NO) Counties: Ashland, Barron, Bayfield ...
Wisconsin counties (clickable map) The county is the primary political subdivision of Wisconsin. Every county has a county seat, often a populous or centrally located city or village, where the government offices for the county are located. Within each county are cities, villages and towns. As of 2016, Wisconsin had 72 counties. [1]
Dane County has 561,504 residents, making it the second-most populous. [14] Marathon County is the largest in area, having 1,544.91 square miles (4,001.3 km 2). [15] This county contains the 45°N, 90°W point, one of four points that are halfway between both the poles and equator, and between both the Prime and 180th meridian. The location is ...
The OMB defines a core-based statistical area (commonly referred to as a CBSA) as the county or counties (or county-equivalents) surrounding at least one densely-settled core of at least 10,000 population, [2] "plus adjacent counties having a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured through commuting ties with ...
Cities in the BOW counties include Green Bay, De Pere, Appleton (part), Kaukauna (part), New London (part), Seymour, Neenah, Menasha (part), Omro, and Oshkosh. Also included is the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. The region overlaps with the Fox Cities but includes the more populous Brown County, [3] and not Calumet County. [4]
The population was 169,151 as of the 2020 census, making it the eighth-most populous county in Wisconsin. [1] [2] The county shares the same name as its county seat, the city of Kenosha, [3] the fourth-largest city in Wisconsin. [1] Kenosha County is situated on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.