Menominee County, Wisconsin

PO Box 279
Keshena, WI 54135
Phone: (715) 799-3311
Fax: (715) 799-1322
www.wisconline.com/counties/menominee/

In east-central WI, northwest of Lake Winnebago; organized May 1, 1961 from Shawano and Oconto counties. Name Origin: For the Menominee Indians, a tribe of Algonquian linguistic stock, who lived in the lake region where wild rice grows. The name probably means 'wild rice people.'

Area (sq mi):: 364.99 (land 357.96; water 7.03) Population per square mile: 12.80
Population 2005: 4,580 State rank: 72 Population change: 2000-20005 0.40%; 1990-2000 17.30% Population 2000: 4,562 (White 11.50%; Black or African American 0.10%; Hispanic or Latino 2.70%; Asian 0.00%; Other 88.30%). Foreign born: 2.70%. Median age: 27.70
Income 2000: per capita $10,625; median household $29,440; Population below poverty level: 28.80% Personal per capita income (2000-2003): $15,966-$18,449
Unemployment (2004): 10.70% Unemployment change (from 2000): -0.90% Median travel time to work: 18.40 minutes Working outside county of residence: 20.10%

Cities with population over 10,000: None

See other counties in Wisconsin.

Menominee County, Michigan

839 10th Ave
Menominee, MI 49858
Phone: (906) 863-9968
Fax: (906) 863-8839
www.menomineecounty.com

On the south-central coast of the Upper Peninsula of MI on Green Bay; established as Bleecker County Mar 19, 1863 from Marquette County; name changed Mar 19, 1863. Name Origin: For the Menominee Indians, a tribe of Algonquian linguistic stock; name means 'wild rice people.'

Area (sq mi):: 1337.99 (land 1043.52; water 294.47) Population per square mile: 24.00
Population 2005: 24,996 State rank: 59 Population change: 2000-20005 -1.30%; 1990-2000 1.60% Population 2000: 25,326 (White 95.80%; Black or African American 0.10%; Hispanic or Latino 0.80%; Asian 0.20%; Other 3.50%). Foreign born: 0.90%. Median age: 40.40
Income 2000: per capita $16,909; median household $32,888; Population below poverty level: 11.50% Personal per capita income (2000-2003): $21,945-$22,558
Unemployment (2004): 5.80% Unemployment change (from 2000): -0.80% Median travel time to work: 19.70 minutes Working outside county of residence: 40.00%

Cities with population over 10,000: None

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Perhaps the great evidence of termination's failure is this; in the first year of termination, Menominee County paid all but $59,000 of its expenses to the federal government, in 1973 Menominee County received more than $20,000,000 in federal and state aid (Herzberg 1978).

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This "forced change" ultimately left the Menominees helpless and Menominee County a "pocket of poverty." As stated in a report on the termination to the Senate, "All of these effects are the result of termination, and they combine to threaten the very identity of our people as an Indian community--an identity which we shall never want to relinquish." (3) With the lumber mill as their only industry and a tax base too small to support Menominee County, by 1967 80 percent of families earned an annual income below the poverty level.

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