• Admitted to Union: May 29, 1848 as the 30th State
• Capital: Madison
• Highest Elevation: Timms Hill (Price County) 1,951.5 feet
• Population (2000): 5,363,675
• Largest City (1990): Milwaukee: 628,088
• Land Area: 34.8 million acres
• Water Area: 1.13 million acres
• State Parks: 60,570 acres
• State Forests: 471,329 acres
• Length: 320 miles
• Width: 295 miles
• Largest Inland Lake: Lake Winnebago - 30 miles long, 10 miles wide at widest point.
• Deepest Inland Lake: Green Lake - 236 feet at deepest point.

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Map of Wisconsin

Other Fun Facts

• Nearly 21 million gallons of ice cream are consumed by Wisconsinites each year.
• Wisconsin is a leading producer of Ginseng in the United States.
• Green Bay is known as the "Toilet Paper Capital" of the world.
• The first ice cream sundae was concocted in Two Rivers in 1881.
• The Fox River is one of the few rivers in the nation that flows north.
• Practically all the natural lakes in Wisconsin have resulted from glaciers.
• According to Wisconsin stories, Wisconsin contains more ghosts per square mile than any other state in the nation.
• American Birkebeiner, the largest cross country ski race in the US, brings upwards of 5,000 competitors to Cable.
• The largest experimental aviation event in the world is the EAA Fly-In at Oshkosh.
• Sun Prairie's sweet corn festival is one of the largest of its kind in the nation.
• It takes an average of 100 hours of fishing to catch a 33.4 inch muskie.
• The first circus in the US was in Delavan, Wisconsin.
• Sheboygan is the "Bratwurst Capital" of the world.
• More than 800,000 deer roam Wisconsin woods.
• Almost 1/3 of all Americans live within a 500 mile radius of Wisconsin/
• Door County has more shoreline than any other county in the US - over 250 miles.
• If all of the hunter's on opening day of deer season in Wisconsin were grouped together, they would comprise the sixth largest army in the world.