Walworth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 102,228. Its county seat is Elkhorn. The county was created in 1836 from Wisconsin Territory and organized in 1839. It is named for Reuben H. Walworth. Walworth County comprises the Whitewater-Elkhorn, WI Micropolitan Statistical Area and is included in the Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI Combined Statistical Area. Lake Geneva, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and Alpine Valley Resort, and Music Theatre are located in Walworth County.
Outagamie is a county in the northeast region of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 176,695. Its county seat is Appleton.
Kenosha County is located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 169,151 as of the 2020 census, making it the eighth most populous county in Wisconsin. The county is named after the county seat, Kenosha, the fourth largest city in Wisconsin. Kenosha County is part of the Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is on the west shore of Lake Michigan.
Kenosha is a city in and the county seat of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. Kenosha is on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. As of the 2020 census the population was 99,986, which made it the fourth-largest city in Wisconsin and the fourth-largest city on Lake Michigan. Although closer to Milwaukee than Chicago, Kenosha is part of the United States Census Bureau's Chicago combined statistical area (CSA) and metropolitan statistical area.
Pleasant Prairie is a village in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan, south of the city of Kenosha and directly north of the Illinois border. Although located just 37 miles south of Milwaukee, it is part of the United States Census Bureau's Chicago combined statistical area (CSA) and metropolitan statistical area despite being 57 miles north of that city. At the 2020 census the population was 21,250. Among its notable features are the RecPlex and Chiwaukee Prairie.
Somers is a village in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population in 2018 was an estimated 8,359. Somers has a post office with ZIP code 53171.
Wheatland is a town in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,373 at the 2010 census. The census-designated place of Powers Lake is located partially in the town. The unincorporated communities of Lily Lake, New Munster, and Slades Corners are also located in the town.
Charles H. Durkee was an American pioneer, Congressman, and United States Senator from Wisconsin. He was one of the founders of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and was a Governor of the Utah Territory in the last five years of his life.
Kenosha Light is a lighthouse and keeper's house on Simmons Island north of the channel into Kenosha's harbor in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, USA.
Klondike is an unincorporated community residential and agricultural community in the town of Brighton, in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.
Chapin is a small residential and agricultural unincorporated community in the town of Paris, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. It is centered at Highway 142 near what is currently Kenosha County Highway MB. The community was settled in the 19th century and has also been known as Star Corners, Heidersdorf's Corner, Jugville, and Parisville.
Paris is a small unincorporated community in north-central Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States, located at U.S. Route 45 and Wisconsin Highway 142 in the town of Paris. The name was chosen by 19th century settler Seth Butler Myrick in honor of the town of his birth in Oneida County, New York. Paris is the site of the Paris Corners town cemetery. The area once had the nickname "Tar Corners", after an incident where a dispute between neighbors led to a tarring and feathering.
Slades Corners is a small unincorporated residential and agricultural community located on Old Highway 50 and 400th Avenue in the southwestern Kenosha County, Wisconsin town of Wheatland. Slades Corners is named for Tom Slade, an early resident who settled 640 acres (2.6 km2) there in approximately 1840, eight years before Wisconsin statehood.
Central Park is an unincorporated residential and business community within the southeast corner of the village of Somers in eastern Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. It is centered on the intersection of Sheridan Road and Twelfth Street. The area once was the location of the namesake Central Park, a sprawling private recreational park, baseball field and picnic grounds that was served by a stop of the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company (TMER&L) interurban line which had installed layover sidings for its rail cars waiting to reload and return picnickers to their homes. Central Park often hosted many annual company picnics including those of the Nash Motors Company of Kenosha. The Central Park picnic grounds were later sold and renamed "Minkowski's Grove", which since has been subdivided and no longer exists for public usage.
State Trunk Highway 50 is a 44.43-mile (71.50 km) state highway in Walworth and Kenosha counties in Wisconsin, United States, that runs from Wisconsin Highway 11 (WIS 11) in Delavan east to Wisconsin Highway 32 (WIS 32) in Kenosha. The highway is maintained by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
Kellogg's Corners is a residential and agricultural community in the village of Somers in northeastern Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. It lies at the junction of Interstate 94/U.S. Route 41 and Kenosha County Highway KR at the border with Racine County. Kellogg's Corners was first settled in 1837 by the Brothers Kellogg - Seth, Chauncey, and Thaddeus.
Richard I. Bong Air Force Base is an unfinished Air Force base. It was named after World War II aviator Major Richard Ira Bong. The base was intended to be an air defense fighter base for the Chicago and Milwaukee areas. It was conceived in the early 1950s and construction began in the mid-1950s. Construction had barely begun when the base was transferred to the Strategic Air Command. Eventually, the base was considered obsolete as it had become apparent to Air Force officials that the base would be redundant with installations nearby that would soon have space for more units. The base was abandoned in 1959 and disposed of the following year.
Strengthen the Arm of Liberty is the theme of the Boy Scouts of America's fortieth anniversary celebration in 1950. The campaign was inaugurated in February with a dramatic ceremony held at the base of the Statue of Liberty. Approximately 200 BSA Statue of Liberty replicas were installed across the United States.
Bristol is a village in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. It was incorporated in 2009 from portions of the Town of Bristol. The population was 2,584 at the 2010 census. The former unincorporated communities of Bissell, Cypress, Pikeville, and Woodworth are located in the village. With an estimated 5,142 people calling the village home in 2019, Bristol has nearly doubled its population in the last decade.
Salem is a community in the village of Salem Lakes, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. The community is located on Wisconsin Highway 83 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Paddock Lake. Salem has a post office with ZIP code 53168.
