Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Location in Waukesha County and the state of Wisconsin.
Location in Waukesha County and the state of Wisconsin.
State Wisconsin Oconomowoc /o k n m w k/ is a town/city in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States.
The town/city is partially contiguous to the Town of Oconomowoc and near the village of Oconomowoc Lake, Wisconsin.
Brewer constructed what some consider to be the first residence inside Oconomowoc's current legal limits, a site now positioned at 517 N.
Oconomowoc was incorporated as a town in 1844, although inhabitants had to go to Summit to get their mail until 1845. Travel and communication links between the new town and close-by cities were quickly established.
The Watertown Plank Road was extended to connect Oconomowoc to the close-by towns of Milwaukee, Waukesha, Pewaukee, and Watertown in 1850. Such transit framework encouraged further settlement, and by 1853 the town interval to a populace of 250, with ten stores, three hotels, one gristmill, and one sawmill (both positioned near the present Lake Road bridge), and a schoolhouse. The first traveler train from Milwaukee appeared in Oconomowoc on December 14, 1854, as part of the Milwaukee and Watertown Railroad Company's quickly expanding Milwaukee & Mississippi line. In the 1870s, Oconomowoc started to turn into a summer resort town for wealthy families from the Midwest.
Large homes were established around the town's lakes, especially Oconomowoc Lake and Lac La Belle.
The populace interval so much that Oconomowoc incorporated as a town/city in 1865, and by 1880 it had a populace of 3,000. In August 1899 a experienced golf tournament hosted by the Oconomowoc Country Club was won by Harry Turpie. In 2003, Oconomowoc acquired Pabst Farms from the Town of Summit.
Oconomowoc is positioned at 43 6 31 N 88 29 49 W (43.108814, 88.497019). It is positioned in the Lake Country region of Waukesha County.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.18 square miles (31.55 km2), of which, 11.54 square miles (29.89 km2) is territory and 0.64 square miles (1.66 km2) is water. There were 6,256 homeholds of which 34.8% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 56.7% were married couples residing together, 8.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.5% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 31.7% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 38.6 years.
26.3% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 5.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 28% were from 25 to 44; 25.5% were from 45 to 64; and 14.7% were 65 years of age or older.
Approximately 30.7% of homeholds had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 54.7% were married couples residing together, 8.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 33.7% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.7% under the age of 18, 7.2% from 18 to 24, 29.5% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 16.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 1.0% of families and 2.7% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 1.8% of those under age 18 and 4.9% of those age 65 or over.
Oconomowoc schools are served by the Oconomowoc Area School District (OASD).
Oconomowoc has two middle schools, Silver Lake and Nature Hill Intermediate school, which serve pupils in 5th through 8th grades.
These opened for the 2008 2009 year, replacing the older Oconomowoc Middle School.
As of the 2014 2015 school year, Oconomowoc High School had 1,547 pupils. The Wizard of Oz premiered at the Strand Theatre in Oconomowoc on August 12, 1939. La Belle Cemetery was the first cemetery in Oconomowoc.
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