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 Belg...