Alto, Wisconsin | |
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Unincorporated community | |
Looking north in downtown Alto | |
Coordinates: 43°40′36″N88°47′42″W / 43.67667°N 88.79500°W Coordinates: 43°40′36″N88°47′42″W / 43.67667°N 88.79500°W | |
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State | |
County | Fond du Lac |
Elevation | 288 m (945 ft) |
Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
• Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
Area code(s) | 920 |
GNIS feature ID | 1560805 [1] |
Alto is an unincorporated community located in the town of Alto, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. [1]
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.
Alto is a town in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,103 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Alto is located in the town.
Fond du Lac County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 101,633. Its county seat is Fond du Lac. The county was created in the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and later organized in 1844. Fond du Lac is French for "bottom of the lake", so given because of the county's location at the southern shore of Lake Winnebago.
For two days every year in early August, the Alto 4-H club and Farm Bureau sponsor a county fair-style event. The Alto Fair starts on a Wednesday and ends the following day, allegedly because a weekend fair would discourage children from attending church services. The fair includes events such as 4-H judging, a tractor pull, and country breakfasts each morning of the fair. [2]
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