USA - Wisconsin - Badger State

WISCONSIN

Badger State

Date of Statehood : May 29, 1848

Capital : Madison

Population : 5,757,564

Name for Residents : Wisconsinites

State Bird : American Robin

State Flower : Wood Violet

State Tree : Sugar Maple

Highest Point : Timms Hill, 1,951 ft.

Total Area : 65,496 sq mi. (ranked 23rd).

Sent by Joni from Milwaukee in Wisconsin, USA.

Wisconsin (/wɪˈskɒnsɪn/ wih-SKON-sin) is a state in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. With a population of about 6 million and an area of about 65,500 square miles, Wisconsin is the 20th-largest state by population and the 23rd-largest by area. It has 72 counties. The state's most populous city is Milwaukee. Its capital and second-most populous city is Madison; other urban areas include Green Bay and the Fox Cities.

Wisconsin's geography is diverse, with dense forests in the north (including Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest), rugged unglaciated hills in the western Driftless Area, and wooded plains, lowlands, and farms stretching from the interior east to Lake Michigan. Wisconsin has the third-longest Great Lakes coastline, after Ontario and Michigan. At the time of European contact, the area was inhabited by Algonquian and Siouan nations, and today it is home to eleven federally recognized tribes. Originally part of the Northwest Territory, it was admitted as a state in 1848. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, many European settlers entered the state, mostly from Germany and Scandinavia. Wisconsin remains a center of German American and Scandinavian American culture, particularly in its cuisine, with foods such as bratwurst and kringle (read more).

USA - Wisconsin - Horicon Marsh Education & Visitor Center

HORICON MARSH EDUCATION & VISITOR CENTER

HORICON, WISCONSIN

WOOLY MAMMOTH & NATIVE AMERICAN HUNTER

Sent by Alex from Milwaukee in Wisconsin, USA.

The Ramsar Convention of the United Nations has formally recognized Horicon Marsh as a wetland of international importance. This renowned marsh is now home to the Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center.

The Wildlife Education Program has been conducted at the marsh since the mid-1980s. This program focuses on the marsh's abundant wildlife resources, their ecology and applied management. It relies on diverse wildlife to develop a wide range of educational programs aimed at introducing and sharing our native wildlife with a broad audience.

The Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center, completed in 2009, has a new, modern design and enhanced visitor services (read more).

U.S.A. - Wisconsin - Madison

MADISON, WISCONSIN
This aerial view of Madison, Wisconsin shows Camp Randall stadium & fieldhouse in the foreground, followed by the U.W. Madison campus which blends into downtown Madison on the isthmus. Two of the four Madison area lakes are partially visible.

Sent by Denis from Madison, Wisconsin,USA.

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. As of July 1, 2012, Madison had an estimated population of 240,323, making it the second largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 81st largest in the United States. The city forms the core of the United States Census Bureau's Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Dane County and neighboring Iowa and Columbia counties. The Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area had a 2010 population of 568,593.

Madison's origins begin in 1829, when former federal judge James Duane Doty purchased over a thousand acres (4 km²) of swamp and forest land on the isthmus between Lakes Mendota and Monona, with the intention of building a city in the Four Lakes region. When the Wisconsin Territory was created in 1836 the territorial legislature convened in Belmont, Wisconsin. One of the legislature's tasks was to select a permanent location for the territory's capital. Doty lobbied aggressively for Madison as the new capital, offering buffalo robes to the freezing legislators and promising choice Madison lots at discount prices to undecided voters. He had James Slaughter plat two cities in the area, Madison and "The City of Four Lakes", near present-day Middleton. Doty named the city Madison for James Madison, the fourth President of the U.S. who had died on June 28, 1836 and he named the streets for the other 39 signers of the U.S. Constitution. Although the city existed only on paper, the territorial legislature voted on November 28 in favor of Madison as its capital, largely because of its location halfway between the new and growing cities around Milwaukee in the east and the long established strategic post of Prairie du Chien in the west, and between the highly populated lead mining regions in the southwest and Wisconsin's oldest city, Green Bay in the northeast. Being named for the much-admired founding father James Madison, who had just died, and having streets named for each of the 39 signers of the Constitution, may have also helped attract votes. (read further)

USA - Wisconsin Mapcard

Greetings From Wisconsin.
Nickname : The Badger State
1999 Population : 5,274, 827
State Capital : Madison
Entered the Union : May 29th, 1848

Sent by Joan, a postcrosser from Florida, USA.

USA - Wisconsin Wildlife

WISCONSIN WILDLIFE

Sent by Casey, a postcrosser from Wisconsin, USA.

USA - Wisconsin - State Capitol Building

Wisconsin's State Capitol Building designed after the Capitol Washington, D.C., surrounded by a taste of the four seasons.

Sent by Barb, a Swap-Bot partner from Wisconsin.