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

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.

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