Douglas County, Wisconsin

Founding: 1854
Parent county: La Pointe
Namesake: Stephen Douglas, Illinois senator
Seat: Superior (1854–)
Land area: 1,304 square miles
Population (2020): 44,295
Population (historic): 812 (1860); 655 (1880); 36,335 (1900); 46,583 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1860–1870; 1880–1920; 1930s; 1990–2020
Subdivisions: One city; five villages; two CDPs; 16 towns
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 5,967 (26.1%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 50.9%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 16.6%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 9.2%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,039
Average outbuilding value (1930): $856

Average farmhouse size (1940): 4.2 rooms

Number of farms (1920): 1,557
Average farm size (1920): 26 acres
Sources of settlement: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Sweden, Michigan, Canada, Norway, France, and Germany
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Superior

 
Namesake: Lake Superior
Founding: 1854 (platting); 1854 (post office); 1854 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 26,751
Population (historic): 11,983 (1890); 40,384 (1910); 36,133 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1890–1910; 1940s; 1990s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 4,601 (37%)
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