SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN

'Sheboygan' is the county seat of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was about 50,792 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of and is included in the Sheboygan, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is located on 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.

Contents

Geography

Demographics

Education

Colleges

High Schools

School District

Transportation

Airport

Roads

Space

Water

Hospitals

Notable businesses and points of interest

Notable people with ties to Sheboygan

Bratwurst

Sister cities

Trivia

References

See also

External links

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 36.4 km² (14.1 mi²). 36.0 km² (13.9 mi²) of it is land and 0.4 km² (0.2 mi²) of it (1.07%) is water. It is located at latitude 43°45' north, longitude 87°44' west.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 50,792 people, 20,779 households, and 12,799 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,409.8/km² (3,652.4/mi²). There were 21,762 housing units at an average density of 604.1/km² (1,564.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 87.63% White, 0.86% Black or African American, 0.48% Native American, 6.48% Asian (with many being of Hmong descent), 0.04% Pacific Islander, 2.85% from other races, and 1.68% from two or more races. 5.97% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. Many of the residents have German ancestry.
There were 20,779 households out of which 29.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.2% were married couples living together, 9.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.4% were non-families. 32.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 3.05.
In the city the population was spread out with 25.6% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 30.0% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 15.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 96.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.7 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $40,066, and the median income for a family was $47,718. Males had a median income of $35,242 versus $24,690 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,270. About 6.2% of families and 8.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.8% of those under age 18 and 7.0% of those age 65 or over.

Education

Colleges

★ University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan

★ Lakeland College

★ Lakeshore Technical College (Satellite Campus)

High Schools

★ Sheboygan Area Lutheran High School

★ Sheboygan County Christian High School

★ Sheboygan North High School

★ Sheboygan South High School

School District

★ Sheboygan Area School District

Transportation

Airport

Sheboygan is served by the Sheboygan County Memorial Airport, which is located several miles from the city.

Roads

Interstate 43 is the primary north-south transportation route into Sheboygan, and it forms the west boundary of the city. Four lane Highway 23 is the primary west route into the city. Other state highways in the city include Highway 42, Highway 28. U.S. Route 141 was the primary north-south route into Sheboygan before Interstate 43 was built, and its former route is a major north-south route through the center of the city that locals call "Business Drive." Secondary county highways include County LS to the north; Counties J, O, PP, and EE to the west; and County KK to the south.

Space

Main articles: Spaceport Sheboygan

Sheboygan has been the site of eight- and twenty-foot tall rocket launches for a local high school program called Rockets for Schools since 1995. Sheboygan is the site of a proposed new spaceport called Spaceport Sheboygan.^[1]

Water

Sheboygan is bounded on the east by Lake Michigan. There are no active ports in the city. In the past, the current site of Blue Harbor Resort sits on a peninsula between the lake and the Sheboygan River's last bend; this was formerly used by the C. Reiss Coal Company (now a Koch Industries division) as their headquarters and base of operations, where ships would load and unload coal from large heaps along the peninsula. The company's former headquarters building on North 8th Street is currently being converted into a condiminum developent.
The Sheboygan River also passes through the city, but waterfalls upstream in Sheboygan Falls prevent navigation, while tall-masted boats are confined to the river downstream of the Pennsylvania Avenue bridge. Commercial charter fishing boats dock near the mouth of the river.

Hospitals

★ Aurora Sheboygan Medical Center

★ St. Nicholas Hospital

Notable businesses and points of interest

★ Sheboygan A's Baseball

★ Above & Beyond Children's Museum

★ Ellwood H. May Environmental Park

★ John Michael Kohler Arts Center

★ Sheboygan County Historical Museum

★ Stefanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts

★ Blue Harbor Resort

★ Whistling Straits

★ Acuity Insurance

★ Sheboygan Redskins, a National Basketball Association franchise in the 1940s

★ Sheboygan Municipal Auditorium and Armory

★ The Sheboygan Press

★ WHBL-AM

Notable people with ties to Sheboygan

★ Ray Buivid, American football player

★ The Chordettes, female popular singing quartet

★ Jerry Donohue, chemist, major contributor toward DNA identification

★ Walter J. Kohler, Jr., Governor of Wisconsin

★ Walter J. Kohler, Sr., Governor of Wisconsin

★ Wesley Lau, actor

★ Brandon Magee, Major League Baseball prospect

★ Rick Majerus, basketball coach

★ Jackie Mason, comedian

★ Martha Nause, golfer

★ Juan Perez, current Sheboygan Mayor

★ E. E. Smith, science fiction author

★ Adolphus Frederic St. Sure, judge

Bratwurst

Sheboygan County is famous for its bratwurst, including the well-known Johnsonville and Old Wisconsin bratwurst. ^[2] The city of Sheboygan's Jaycees have an annual fundraising festival called Bratwurst Days, which includes the Johnsonville World Bratwurst Eating Championship.^[3][4] The 2005 contest was part of the International Federation of Competitive Eating. The event was won by professional eating champion Sonya Thomas, who set a world record by eating 34.5 bratwurst in 10 minutes. Footage of the event was aired on ESPN and CNN. The 2006 contest (airing on a same-day tape delay on ESPN2) featured Takeru Kobayashi, who easily broke the record by eating 58 bratwurst. ^[5]

Sister cities

Sheboygan has several sister cities, including Esslingen am Neckar, Germany and Tsubame, Niigata, Japan. Sheboygan does student exchanges with both cities. ^[6]

Trivia

★ Sheboygan hosts the annual Dairyland Surf Classic, the largest lake surfing competition in the world.^[7]

★ The tallest flagpole in the United States was raised on July 2 2005 at Acuity Insurance. The steel pole is 338 feet high (103 meters) , 6 feet (1.83 m) wide at the base, weighs 65 tons (without the flag), and is sunk into a 550-ton block of concrete that is 40 feet (12.19m) deep, 8 feet wide and reinforced by steel rods. The flag is 120 feet by 60 feet (36.58 x 18.29 meters), or 7,200 square feet (668.9 square meters). Each star is 4 feet (1.219m) high and each stripe is 4 1/2 feet (1.37m) wide. It weighs 300 pounds (136 kg).^[8] This flag and flagpole outdid an earlier Acuity record, a flag raised June 2, 2003, atop a 150 foot (45.72 meters) flagpole. The old pole toppled over due to stress during high winds, almost falling onto nearby Interstate 43. The new flagpole was redesigned, and placed much farther from the highway.^[9]

★ In April of 1896 the schooner ''Lottie Cooper'' was wrecked just off Sheboygan in a gale.^[10] The wreckage was found buried in the harbor during the construction of the Harbor Centre Marina. The wreckage was recovered and is now on display in DeLand Park, along Sheboygan's lakefront. The free display is the only one of its kind on the Great Lakes.^[11]

★ Sheboygan was recognized by Reader's Digest as "The Best Place to Raise a Family" in the United States in 1995.^[12]

★ In the film 'Some Like It Hot' Josephine and Daphne (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) claim to have studied at the Sheboygan Conservatory of Music.

★ In the film 'Home Alone' the polka band that gives Kevin's Mom a ride home say they are big "in Sheboygan."

★ A mysterious photo published by the newspaper the ''Sheboygan Press'' has been doing the rounds on the web in the beginnning of the 2007. Believed to be taken during the 1890s, it features an elegantly dressed man sitting down in the middle of a major intersection - on a dead horse. ^[13]

★ Chicken Joe, a character from the 2007 animated film ''Surf's Up'' voiced by Jon Heder, is a surfer from Sheboygan.

References

1.
Bill envisions liftoff for Sheboygan Patrick Marley

2. Sheboygan County Registrar of Deeds
3. History
4. City asked to abolish brat-eating contest Eric LaRose
5. Best of the wurst: Kobayashi eats 58 brats for win
6. Hungry still get their fill at Taste of Sheboygan
7. Dairyland Surf Classic
8. Acuity raises Old Glory Atop tallest flagpole in the nation Eric LaRose
9. Acuity Raises Largest Symbol of Freedom in Wisconsin
10. Significant Chronology for the Lottie Cooper
11. Detailed Information for Lottie Cooper
12. The Sheboygan Press
13. The Sheboygan Press


★ Sheboygan County Historical Documents: A digital collection of texts and images that documents the social, economic, and political history of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.

See also

★ Sheboygan County

★ Sheboygan Area School District

External links

★ City of Sheboygan

★ Sheboygan Shores (The City of Sheboygan Tourism Division)

★ Sheboygan History Website