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Outagamie County, Wisconsin

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Some Quick Facts about Outagamie County:

• Outagamie became a county on February 17th, 1851 when a bill proposed by State Senator Theodore Conkey of Grand Chute became law.   (History of Outagamie County Wisconsin, Thomas H. Ryan, Editory in Chief, Goodspeed Publishers, Chicago, IL)

• Outagamie was once part of Brown County, Wisconsin.  Brown County was formed in 1818 and was a part of the old Northwest Territory of the United States before Wisconsin became first a territory in 1836 and then a state in 1848.  Brown County is named after Major General Jacob Brown, who was then Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army.  (History of Brown County, Past and Present, Volume I, by Deborah B. Martin, page 91.)

• In the original bill proposing to create the county, the name was spelled Utaghamie rather than Outagamie.  Both names were anglicized versions of an Algonquin word that referred to a band of Native Americans who had once  lived in the Fox River Valley.  The French called this same band, Les Reynards (The Fox) and fought a series of wars with them during the early 18th century for control of the trade route along the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers.      (History of Outagamie County Wisconsin, Thomas H. Ryan, Editory in Chief, Goodspeed Publishers, Chicago, IL)

• The Population of Wisconsin from 1836 to 2000:

Source:  Wisconsin Blue Book 2001-2002, page 789