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Wisconsin is located in the north central United States, bordered by Lake Superior on the north, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on the northeast, Lake Michigan on the east, Illinois on the south, and Iowa and Minnesota on the west. Wisconsin received its name from the Wisconsin River, the name of which is derived from the French version of an Ojibwa term that may mean "gathering of the waters" or "place of the beaver." It is customarily known as the Badger State because the miners who were among the first settlers in the region lived in mine shafts or dug their homes out of the hillside and lived underground, as badgers do.

Wisconsin is a leading state in milk and cheese production. Other important farm products are peas, beans, beets, corn, potatoes, oats, hay, and cranberries. The chief industrial products of the state are automobiles, machinery, furniture, paper, beer, and processed foods. The state's mines produce copper, iron ore, lead, and zinc. The state has over 14,000 lakes, of which Winnebago is the largest. Water sports, ice-boating, and fishing are popular, as are skiing and hunting. A 2007 real estate survey has estimated the population of Wisconsin at 5,601,640.

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Brookfield

    Kirk & Jake Spano
    Century 21 Affiliated
    Phone: (414)617-6669
    E-mail: C21spano@aol.com
    Two heads are better than one. We get the best for our clients. Serving all of Southeastern Wisconsin.

Hayward

    Trevor Eytcheson
    Wilderness Waters Realty, Inc.
    Phone: (715) 634-1400
    E-mail: rachel95@win.bright.net
    Hayward, Stone Lake, Springbrook, Birchwood, Seeley, Cable, Barnes, Drummond, Lac Courte Oreilles, Chippewa Flowage.

Janesville click here

 Janesville is located in Rock County (of which it is the county seat) in southern Wisconsin along Interstate 90 on the banks of the Rock River near Beloit. A 2000 real estate survey has estimated the population of Janesville, Wisconsin at 59,498.

Madison click here

 Madison is located in south central Wisconsin and it lies on the shores of four scenic lakes. Madison is a commercial, educational, and manufacturing center and the distribution point for a productive farming region. The city is home to several large insurance companies and the headquarters of a national processor of meat products. It also has a growing core of high-technology companies.

Milwaukee click here

 Milwaukee is located in the southeastern corner of Wisconsin, on the shore of Lake Michigan. Although one of the nation’s leading industrial cities and the commercial hub of the state, it was beer that made Milwaukee famous. For decades some of the nation’s leading brewers called Milwaukee home. The smell of brewing beer was a familiar aroma in the city, and institutions from the city’s most historic theater to its baseball team have names connected with the brewing industry. But by the mid-1990s the city’s association with beer was receding as all but one of the major breweries closed.

Stoughton

    Paul Lawrence
     Coldwell Banker Sveum Realtors
    Phone: 608-873-4000 ext.28
    E-mail: Plawre2035@aol.com
    Rural Dane County, primarily Stoughton, a beautiful community within an easy commute to Madison.

Waukesha

    Debra Duessler
     RE/MAX Suburban
    Phone: 414-549-2249
    E-mail: dduessler@aol.com
    Serving the Greater Milwaukee area including Waukesha, Pewaukee, Mukwonago and surrounding communities

West Bend

    Sally Fellenz
     American Real Estate
    Phone: 414-334-3774
    E-mail: Silkyone@webtv.net
    I handle mainly residential properties in West Bend and surrounding communities in Washington County.
Some 30,000 farms specialize in dairying, and dairy and livestock products account for 74 percent of total farm income. Wisconsin is first among the states in its number of milk cows and is second, behind California, in fluid milk production. Beef, hogs, and eggs are also important livestock products.

Wisconsin is a Corn Belt state, and corn is its major crop, grown chiefly for livestock feed. Other leading crops are soybeans, hay, sweet corn, potatoes, green peas, snap beans, cranberries, and oats. Wisconsin leads the nation in the value of its oats, cranberries, snap beans, beets, and cabbage; is second in the nation in production of dark red kidney beans; and is third in sweet corn, green peas, fall potatoes, and spearmint.

Most of Wisconsin’s small commercial fishing industry makes use of Lake Michigan. Although fish in the lake were depleted by the sea lamprey, which invaded the Great Lakes in the 20th century, a restoration program has been partially successful. Important species are whitefish, lake trout, perch, chub, alewife, and carp. Commercial river fishing yields mainly catfish, bullhead, and buffalo fish.

Although forestry is neither a major labor-using industry nor a leading income producer for Wisconsin, the industries based on wood are important to the state. Much of the hardwood cut goes into the manufacture of plywood and veneer, and the pulp and paper industry consumes much of the softwood harvest. The concentration of pulp and paper products industries around Green Bay and Appleton is one of the nation’s largest.

Wisconsin’s mineral output is limited, and it ranks low among the states in value of production. The state produces stone, sand and gravel, copper, and lime. The once-important high-grade iron ore reserves are no longer available. The lead and zinc ores of southwestern Wisconsin were the first of the state’s mineral resources to be exploited and are still quite abundant, but their production depends on market prices. Wisconsin has ample supplies of sandstone, limestone, quartzite, and silica sand. The state is the country’s second largest producer of dimension stone used for buildings.

By far the largest share of Wisconsin’s income from the production of goods is derived from industry. The leading industry groups ranked by employment were industrial machinery and equipment, food and food products, paper products, electronic equipment, and fabricated metal products. The machinery produced in Wisconsin is diverse, including internal combustion engines, construction machinery, farm equipment, machinery for the paper industry, refrigeration and heating equipment, and computers.

Food processing is one of the state’s mainstays. Wisconsin ranks first in the nation in output of cheese and condensed and evaporated milk, and it produces a great majority of the country’s malted milk. It also ranks high in vegetable and fruit canning. The brewing of beer is one of Wisconsin’s oldest industries.

Other chief industries in Wisconsin are paper mills and associated industries, creating goods such as paper packaging, boxes, and household sanitary products; the makers of electrical industrial equipment and household appliances; manufacturers producing fabricated metal products, such as general hardware, metal plates, formed sheet metal, cans for food products, and stamped parts for the automotive industry; transportation equipment manufacturers, particularly those producing automobiles and motorcycles; and the primary metal industries, which include iron and steel foundries and firms casting aluminum.

Manufacturing is widely distributed, but the Milwaukee metropolitan area accounts for more than one-third of the state’s industrial income. Although it is known as the Beer Capital of the Nation, Milwaukee is also a major meat-packing center. Iron and steel mills, automobile and machinery plants, and chemical plants are some of the city’s many industries. Other parts of the southeast are also heavily industrialized, particularly the cities of Racine, Kenosha, Sheboygan, Beloit, and Janesville. Farther north, along the Fox River, the Chippewa River, and the Wisconsin River, are large centers for paper and wood products, including Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Eau Claire, and Wausau. Food-processing plants are more widely distributed. Wisconsin’s well-known cheddar cheese is produced in the east central and central sections of the state, processed cheese in the Green Bay area, Swiss cheese in the southwest, and butter in the west.

Thermal plants, primarily fueled by coal, produce 74 percent of Wisconsin’s electricity. The state has many small hydroelectric power plants, although they generate only 3 percent of the state’s electricity. Nuclear power plants at Kewaunee and Point Beach combine to produce 19 percent of Wisconsin’s electric power.

Milwaukee, a major Great Lakes port and industrial center, is Wisconsin’s largest city, a leading producer of both beer and machinery, and the historic home of large German and Polish populations, which give it a European flavor. The Milwaukee metropolitan area had 1.7 million inhabitants in 2000. Madison, the state capital, as well as a university city, had 426,500 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2000. Other major cities include Racine, a Lake Michigan port and industrial city; West Allis, an industrial satellite of Milwaukee; and Kenosha, a port and industrial city on Lake Michigan. Green Bay, on an arm of Lake Michigan, is Wisconsin’s oldest city. Superior shares the great port facilities at the western terminus of Lake Superior with Duluth, Minnesota. A single metropolitan area centers on the two cities.

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