Sheboygan, Wisconsin
City of Sheboygan Downtown Sheboygan, with U.S.
Downtown Sheboygan, with U.S.
Sheboygan is positioned in Wisconsin Sheboygan - Sheboygan State Wisconsin Counties Sheboygan Sheboygan is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States. The populace was 49,288 at the 2010 census.
It is the principal town/city of the Sheboygan, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The town/city is positioned on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Sheboygan River, about 50 mi (81 km) north of Milwaukee and 64 mi (103 km) south of Green Bay.
Prior to settlement by European Americans, the Sheboygan region was home to Native Americans, including members of the Potawatomi, Chippewa, Ottawa, Winnebago, and Menominee tribes. Migrants from New York, Michigan, and New England were among the pioneers to this region in the 1830s.
By 1849 the improve was known for its German population, as it became a destination of a wave of German middle-class liberal immigrants, who reached the United States after the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states.
In the spring of 1898 Sheboygan voted for Fred C.
In 1976, the first three Hmong families settled in Sheboygan with the help of small-town refugee agencies such as the Grace Lutheran Church and Trinity Lutheran Church.
By December 1999, there were around 5,000 Hmong and Hmong American inhabitants in Sheboygan, 65% of whom were under the age of 18. "Sheboygan, like many heavily Hmong small suburbs in Wisconsin, has several readily apparent signs that such a large Hmong populace is indeed there", as there were very several Hmong-owned businesses and "any Hmong inhabitants tend to keep to themselves." In 2006, a Sheboygan Hmong Memorial was installed in a town/city park to honor Hmong military and civilian contributions to the Secret War in Laos (particularly from 1961-1975).
Enumeration showed the number of Hmong people to be around 4,100 citizens , putting it fourth in Wisconsin for Hmong populations. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 14.11 square miles (36.54 km2), of which, 13.97 square miles (36.18 km2) is territory and 0.14 square miles (0.36 km2) is water. It is positioned at latitude 43 45' north, longitude 87 44' west.
Sheboygan has a warm-summer humid continental climate typical of Wisconsin.
Sheboygan City Hall Sheboygan has a Council - Manager form of government.
The Sheboygan Police Department is the law enforcement agency in the city.
Civil and criminal law cases are heard in the Sheboygan County Circuit Court.
The Sheboygan Fire Department provides fire suppression and emergency medical services, operating out of five fire stations.
Sheboygan is represented in the Wisconsin State Assembly as part of both the 26th and 27th districts, whose boundaries split the town/city along Geele Ave.
Sheboygan is in the 6th congressional precinct of Wisconsin, which is represented by Glenn Grothman-(R) Sheboygan enhance schools are administered by the Sheboygan Area School District.
Sheboygan North High School Sheboygan South High School Sheboygan Area Lutheran High School Sheboygan County Christian High School Sheboygan Central High School Since 1996, Sheboygan has had a high school program, Rockets for Schools, where pupils build and launch 8-and-20-foot-tall (2.4 and 6.1 m) rockets.
University of Wisconsin Sheboygan Alliant Energy's Edgewater Generation Station, a coal-fired power plant on the city's south side, with the city's wastewater treatment plant in the foreground Interstate 43 is the major north-south transit route into Sheboygan, and forms the west boundary of the city.
Route 141 was the major north-south route into Sheboygan before Interstate 43 was built, and its former route is a primary north-south route through the center of the town/city that is alluded to as Calumet Drive coming into the town/city from the north, and South Business Drive from the south; between Superior and Georgia Avenues, the highway is known as 14th Street.
Four-lane Highway 23 is the major west route into the city, and leads into the town/city up to North 25th Street as a motorway.
Other state highways in the town/city include Highway 42, Highway 28, which both run mostly along the former inner-city routing of U.S.
Secondary county highways include County LS to the north; Counties J, O, PP, and EE to the west; and County KK to the south.
Shoreline Metro provides enhance transit throughout the city, as well as in Kohler and Sheboygan Falls.
Jefferson Lines and Indian Trails serve Sheboygan at the Metro Center, providing transit to Milwaukee and Green Bay.
Sheboygan had a stop on the line that also served the Milwaukee Road.
Sheboygan is served by the Sheboygan County Memorial Airport (KSBM), which is positioned three miles northwest of the city.
Sheboygan is bounded on the east by Lake Michigan.
Blue Harbor Resort is positioned on a peninsula between the lake and the Sheboygan River's last bend.
The Sheboygan River passes through the city, but dams in Sheboygan Falls prevent navigation upriver.
The city's everyday journal is The Sheboygan Press, which has been presented since 1907.
The no-charge papers The Sheboygan Sun and The Beacon are mailed weekly to region residents and feature classified ads and other small-town content.
Nielsen's tv division places Sheboygan inside the Milwaukee market, although Green Bay stations also report news, affairs, and weather warnings pertaining to Sheboygan and target the town/city with advertising.
Nielsen Audio places Sheboygan and Sheboygan County inside one radio market, and a several stations serve the area.
Midwest Communications owns four stations inside the county, including talk station WHBL (1330, with a translator station at 101.5 FM serving Sheboygan, Kohler and Sheboygan Falls); nation station WBFM (93.7); CHR/Top 40 WXER (104.5 from Plymouth, with a translator at 96.1 FM in Sheboygan); and active modern Sheboygan Falls-licensed WHBZ (106.5).
Fox Sports Radio partner WCLB (950) also serves the city, along with the Sheboygan Area School District's WSHS (91.7), a member of the Wisconsin Public Radio Ideas Network, and Plymouth's WJUB (1420), a standards station.
Aurora Sheboygan Medical Center Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center This enhance beach on Lake Michigan is positioned north and east of downtown Sheboygan.
The town/city has one trail along the Highway 23 corridor dominant to the Old Plank Road Trail to the west of Sheboygan that uses dedicated paths and bike lanes.
Sheboygan County is well known for its bratwurst. The Sheboygan Jaycees sponsor Bratwurst Days, an annual fund-raising festival that contains the Johnsonville World Bratwurst Eating Championship. Sheboygan hosts the annual Dairyland Surf Classic, the biggest lake surfing competition in the world. Sheboygan is the site of a proposed new spaceport called Spaceport Sheboygan. Sheboygan County Historical Museum Sheboygan Hmong Memorial In April 1894, the schooner Lottie Cooper was wrecked just off Sheboygan in a gale. The wreckage was found buried in the harbor amid the assembly of the Harbor Centre Marina and is now on display in De - Land Park, on Sheboygan's lakefront.
Sheboygan's sister metros/cities are: Sheboygan was recognized by Reader's Digest as "The Best Place to Raise a Family" in the United States in 1997. Peter Bartzen, Wisconsin state assemblyman James Baumgart, Wisconsin state senator Theodore Benfey, Wisconsin state senator Boeckmann, Wisconsin State Assemblyman and sheriff Elijah Fox Cook, Wisconsin state senator Valentine Detling, Wisconsin State Assemblyman and businessman Dennett, Wisconsin state senator Detling, Wisconsin state assemblyman Eber, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly Simon Gillen, Wisconsin state assemblyman and jurist Herman Heinecke, Wisconsin state assembly Hillemann, Wisconsin state assemblyman and attorney Janke, Wisconsin state assemblyman Jones, Wisconsin state senator Jacob Jung, Wisconsin state assemblyman and businessman Kempf, Wisconsin state assemblyman Koepsell, Wisconsin state assemblyman and businessman John Michael Kohler, industrialist, founder of Kohler Company and mayor of Sheboygan Conrad Krez, Union Army general, Wisconsin state assemblyman Krez, Wisconsin state assemblyman Lingelbach, Wisconsin state assemblyman Neumeister, Wisconsin state assemblyman Nuernberg, Wisconsin state assemblyman Nuss, Wisconsin state assemblyman Phalen, Wisconsin state senator Calvin Potter, Wisconsin state senator Rath, Wisconsin state assemblyman Henry Otto Reinnoldt, Wisconsin state assemblyman Root, Wisconsin state assemblyman John Schneider, Jr., Wisconsin state assemblyman Smith, Wisconsin state senator Sonnemann, Wisconsin state assemblyman Theisen, Wisconsin state assemblyman William Te Winkle, Wisconsin state senator Joseph Wedig, Wisconsin state assemblyman Carl Zillier, Wisconsin state assemblyman 8th Street Sheboygan in the 1890s, featuring a man on a dead horse Sheboygan Post Office, a registered historic place (RHP) Sheboygan Theater, a RHP Sheboygan Red Skins, an early experienced basketball charter of the NBA Sheboygan County Chamber Tourism.
Historic Sheboygan County.
History of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, Past and Present.
One Hundred Years of Sheboygan, 1846 1946.
Wisconsin's Cultural Resource Study Units.
"Former Sheboygan Alderman is Laid to Rest", Sheboygan Press, August 4, 1944.
"History program spotlights Sheboygan's Hmong community".
"Sheboygan, Wisconsin climate summary".
"Sheboygan, Wisconsin Temperature Averages".
"Sheboygan County Registrar of Deeds".
Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce.
"The Sheboygan Press".
"`Breakfast Club' host Don Mc - Neill dies Radio legend, who interval up in Sheboygan, once was fired for seeking $3 raise at Milwaukee station".
Sheboygan, Wis.: Sheboygan Fire Department History Book Committee, 1998.
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