Kewaunee County, Wisconsin

Founding: 1859 (declared in 1852)
Parent county: Door

Namesake: Unclear—perhaps a Menominee, Potawatomi, or Ojibwe word
Seat: Kewaunee (1859–)

Land area: 343 square miles

Population (2020): 20,563

Population (historic): 5,530 (1860); 15,807 (1880); 17,212 (1900); 16,037 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1860–1900; 1930–1980; 1990–2010

Subdivisions: Two cities; two villages; one CDP; ten towns

National Register listings: 14

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 2,577 (27.4%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 62.8%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 2.8%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 3.7%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 4.4%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,756
Average outbuilding value (1930): $2,186
Average farmhouse size (1940): 7 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 2,065
Average farm size (1920): 71 acres
Sources of settlement: Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Belgium
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Kewaunee

Namesake: Unclear—perhaps a Menominee, Potawatomi, or Ojibwe word

Founding: 1852 (platting); 1852 (post office); 1873 (incorporation)

Population (2020): 2,837

Population (historic): 1,050 (1880); 1,773 (1900); 2,409 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1880–1970; 1990–2010
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 478 (28.6%)
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Outstanding Buildings

1. *Adolph Cerovsky Log House (1878). 2251 State Route 42. Carlton.
2. *George Paider Log House (c. 1875). Old Settler's Road, east of Road AB. Franklin. Razed.
3. *Jean-Baptiste Massart Farm (1872). Road C, south of Road X. Lincoln. Relocated to Brown County.
4. *John Denamur House (c. 1880). Spruce Road, south of Road X. Lincoln.
5. *John Kunes Log House (c. 1860). 1040 Cherneyville Road. Montpelier.
6. Henry Borchardt Farm (c. 1895). 3710 Road AB. Montpelier.
7. *George Halada Farm (1878). 1113 Road F. Montpelier.
8. *School Number Two (c. 1915). 7694 Road H. Red River. Craftsman.
9. *Adolph LaLuzerne Farm (1895). 2471 Road X. Red River.
10. *John Pehlgrim Farm (c. 1885). 2667 Church Road. West Kewaunee.
11. *Rudolph Oestreich Farm (c. 1890). 4259 Road FF. West Kewaunee.