Baraboo, Wisconsin
City of Baraboo City of Baraboo is positioned in Wisconsin City of Baraboo - City of Baraboo Location of Baraboo in Wisconsin State Wisconsin Baraboo is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. The biggest city in the county, Baraboo is the principal town/city of the Baraboo Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Baraboo is home to the Circus World Museum, the former command posts and winter home of the Ringling Brothers circus.
Baraboo is also near Devil's Lake State Park, the International Crane Foundation, and Aldo Leopold's Shack and Farm.
The region around Baraboo was first settled by Abe Wood in 1838, and was originally known as the village of Adams. In 1846 it became the governmental center of county of Sauk County after a fierce fight with the close-by village of Reedsburg. In 1852, the village was retitled "Baraboo", after the close-by river.
Baraboo was the site of a several sawmills early in its history because of its locale near the Baraboo and Wisconsin Rivers.
From 1884 to 1917 it was the command posts of their circus and a several others, dominant to the nickname "Circus City". Today Circus World Museum is positioned in Baraboo.
It also has the biggest library of circus knowledge in the United States. The exhibition previously hosted the Great Circus Parade, which carried circus wagons and performers through the streets of Baraboo, athwart the state by train, and then through downtown Milwaukee.
Ringling Theatre is a grand scale movie palace in downtown Baraboo, made possible through the financial assistance of the Ringling family.
Located near Baraboo is the Badger Army Ammunition Plant, which was the biggest munitions factory in the world amid WWII, when it was known as "Badger Ordnance Works". The plant is no longer in use.
The business was established in a non-urban Baraboo barn in 1984 by brothers Alan and Dale Klapmeier to produce the VK-30 kit airplane . After a several years of designing, they relocated to the Baraboo-Wisconsin Dells Airport and began flight testing, before ultimately moving the business in 1994 to its present-day home in Duluth, MN where they now employ over 1,000 citizens . According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.47 square miles (19.35 km2), of which, 7.39 square miles (19.14 km2) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.21 km2) is water. West Baraboo, a suburb of Baraboo, borders the town/city on its west side.
Baraboo gives its name to the Baraboo Syncline, a doubly plunging, asymmetric syncline in Proterozoic-aged Baraboo quartzite.
Devil's Lake State Park, Wisconsin's biggest state park, includes large areas of the Baraboo Hills.
Pewits Nest is positioned outside Baraboo.
Baraboo forms the core of the United States Enumeration Bureau's Baraboo Micropolitan Statistical Area, which contains all of Sauk County (2000 population: 55,225).
The Baraboo SA is just northwest of the Madison urbane area, with which it forms the Enumeration Bureau's Baraboo-Madison Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area.
There were 5,161 homeholds of which 30.2% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 41.1% were married couples residing together, 11.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.5% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 41.6% were non-families.
As of the census of 2000, there were 10,711 citizens , 4,467 homeholds, and 2,733 families living in the city.
There were 4,467 homeholds out of which 31.0% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 46.9% were married couples residing together, 10.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 38.8% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.9% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 15.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $38,375, and the median income for a family was $48,149.
The School District of Baraboo has four elementary schools serving pupils in grades 1 through 5, one kindergarten center, one middle school and one high school.
A ground of the University of Wisconsin Baraboo/Sauk County (known to small-town inhabitants as "Boo-U") is positioned in Baraboo.
Celebrated in his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), is near Baraboo.
Porter Duplex Residence is in Baraboo.
Frank Avery, Wisconsin State Senator Cady, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Carow, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Hofstatter, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Keller, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Cyrus Remington, Wisconsin State Assemblyman and jurist Bradbury Robinson, threw the first forward pass in football history, interval up in Baraboo Algie Martin Simons, Socialist journal editor, visited high school in Baraboo Viebahn, Wisconsin State Assemblyman David Vittum, Wisconsin State Senator Wood, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Woodman, Wisconsin State Senator United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Term: Baraboo [brief history]" in Dictionary of Wisconsin History.
Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame - Exciting News From the National Aviation Hall of Fame https://wisconsinaviationhalloffame.org/blog/ Community Christian School of Baraboo https://barabooccs.com/.
The History of Sauk County, Wisconsin, Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880, p.
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