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State law permits counties to appoint a registered land surveyor in place of electing a surveyor. Counties in Wisconsin are governed by county boards, headed by a chairperson. Counties with a population of 500,000 or more must also have a county executive. Smaller counties may have either a county executive or a county administrator. [5]
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]
Professor Lawrence Martin created a schema for dividing Wisconsin into geographical regions in his work "The Physical Geography of Wisconsin". [1] [2] Western Upland. Eastern Ridges and Lowlands. Central Plain. Northern Highland. Lake Superior Lowland. Three of these geographical provinces are uplands and two are lowlands.
As of the 2020 census, Wisconsin had a population of 5,893,718, and ranked 27th in the United States in population density. [8] [9] The center of population is located in Green Lake County, in the city of Markesan. [10] Wisconsin is divided into 72 counties, and has 190 cities, 407 villages, and 1250 towns. [11]
Appleton ( Menominee: Ahkōnemeh) is a city in and the county seat of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States. A small portion of the city also extends into Calumet and Winnebago counties. It is situated on the Fox River, 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Green Bay and 100 miles (160 km) north of Milwaukee.
Manitowoc County, Wisconsin (6 C, 15 P) Marathon County, Wisconsin (7 C, 19 P) Marinette County, Wisconsin (6 C, 13 P) Marquette County, Wisconsin (5 C, 9 P) Menominee County, Wisconsin (6 C, 7 P) Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (8 C, 51 P) Monroe County, Wisconsin (6 C, 11 P)
Grant County is the most southwestern county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,938. [ 2] Its county seat is Lancaster and its largest city is Platteville. [ 3] The county is named after the Grant River, in turn named after a fur trader who lived in the area when Wisconsin was a territory. [ 4]
Map of the United States with Wisconsin highlighted. Milwaukee is the most populous city in Wisconsin. Madison is the state's capital and second-most populous city. Green Bay is the state's third-most populous city. Wisconsin is a state located in the Midwestern United States. As of January 1, 2021, there were 190 cities in Wisconsin, and 1,883 ...