Manitowoc County, Wisconsin

Founding: 1848 (declared in 1836)
Parent county: Brown
Namesake: The Manitowoc River
Seat: Manitowoc (1848–)
Land area: 589 square miles
Population (2020): 81,359
Population (historic): 3,702 (1850); 33,364 (1870); 37,831 (1890); 44,978 (1910); 58,674 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1840–1980; 1990s
Subdivisions: Three cities; nine villages; one CDP; 18 towns
National Register listings: 39
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 11,610 (31%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 70.4%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 10.3%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 3.9%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $2,563
Average outbuilding value (1930): $3,011

Housing in poor condition (1940): 16.3%
Average farmhouse size (1940): 7.4 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 3,904
Average farm size (1920): 64.3 acres
Sources of settlement: Germany, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, and Ireland
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Manitowoc

 
Namesake: The Manitowoc River
Founding: 1836 (platting); 1837 (post office); 1851 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 34,626
Population (historic): 3,059 (1860); 6,367 (1880); 11,786 (1900); 22,963 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1860–1970; 1990s; 2010s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 5,097 (31.7%)
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Outstanding Buildings

1. *John Lutze House-Barn (1850). 13634 South Union Road. Centerville.
2. *Mirabel Caves Hotel Ruins (1900). 15805 County Road R. Cooperstown. Romanesque.
3. *Trinity Lutheran Church (1910). 11303 Wehausen Road. Liberty. Gothic Revival.
4. *Charles Klingholz House (1868). 224 Mill Road. Manitowoc Rapids. Italianate.
5. *Bass Lake Farm / Albert Weyer Farm (c. 1885). 4906 Gass Lake Road. Newton. Second Empire.