{"id":8803,"date":"2023-10-07T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T08:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=8803"},"modified":"2026-08-20T23:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:24:36","slug":"calumet-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/calumet-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Calumet County, Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calumet County is a county in Wisconsin, United States, on the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago. It had a population of 52,442 at the 2020 census and covers 397 square miles (1,030 km2), of which 318 square miles (820 km2) is land and 79 square miles (200 km2) is water, centred near 44\u00b005\u2032N 88\u00b013\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Chilton is the county seat; its postal code is 53014. The county has seven cities (most shared with neighboring counties), five villages, nine towns, one census-designated place, and roughly twenty unincorporated communities. Calumet County runs on Central Time and lies partly within the Appleton metropolitan area.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Calumet County<\/h2>\n<p>Wisconsin&#8217;s &#8220;cities,&#8221; &#8220;villages,&#8221; and &#8220;towns&#8221; (civil townships) are all distinct legal designations. Several of the county&#8217;s cities straddle a neighboring county line and are counted here only for their Calumet County population share. CDPs are unincorporated but formally recognized by the Census Bureau; &#8220;Unincorp.&#8221; covers smaller places with no separate government.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Township<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Chilton<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>Chilton<\/td>\n<td>3,933<\/td>\n<td>53014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>New Holstein<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>New Holstein<\/td>\n<td>3,236<\/td>\n<td>53061<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brillion<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>Brillion<\/td>\n<td>3,148<\/td>\n<td>54110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Menasha (part)<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>Harrison<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>54952<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kaukauna (part)<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>Harrison<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>54130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Appleton (part)<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>Harrison<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>54915<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kiel (part)<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>53042<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hilbert<\/td>\n<td>Village<\/td>\n<td>Woodville<\/td>\n<td>1,102<\/td>\n<td>54129<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sherwood<\/td>\n<td>Village<\/td>\n<td>Harrison<\/td>\n<td>2,741<\/td>\n<td>54169<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Stockbridge<\/td>\n<td>Village<\/td>\n<td>Stockbridge<\/td>\n<td>580<\/td>\n<td>53088<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Potter<\/td>\n<td>Village<\/td>\n<td>Rantoul<\/td>\n<td>236<\/td>\n<td>53153<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Harrison<\/td>\n<td>Village<\/td>\n<td>Harrison<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>54952<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Forest Junction<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>Brillion \/ Rantoul<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>54123<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brothertown<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Brothertown<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>53061<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Charlesburg<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Charlestown<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brant<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Brothertown<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Darboy<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Harrison<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>54915<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dundas<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Chilton<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hayton<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Rantoul<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jericho<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>New Holstein<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kloten<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Woodville<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Saint Anna<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Charlestown<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Saint John<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>New Holstein<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Three of the county&#8217;s seven &#8220;cities&#8221; \u2014 Appleton, Kaukauna, and Menasha \u2014 are anchored in neighboring Outagamie and Winnebago counties and only reach into Calumet County&#8217;s Harrison township at their edges; Kiel is likewise centred in Manitowoc County. Their table rows above cover the Calumet County portion only, which is why no separate population figure is given for the fragment.<\/p>\n<h2>Townships<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Township<\/th>\n<th>Pop. (2020)<\/th>\n<th>Main settlements<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Harrison<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Sherwood, Darboy, parts of Appleton\/Kaukauna\/Menasha<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chilton<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Dundas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>New Holstein<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Brothertown, Saint John<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brillion<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Forest Junction (part)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rantoul<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Potter, Hayton, Forest Junction (part)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Woodville<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Hilbert, Kloten<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Stockbridge<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Stockbridge village<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Charlestown<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Charlesburg, Saint Anna<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brothertown<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Brant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Township-level 2020 census counts were not available from a verified source and are omitted rather than estimated; see notes.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>53014 &mdash; Chilton (county seat)<\/li>\n<li>53061 &mdash; New Holstein (also serves Brothertown and Saint John)<\/li>\n<li>54110 &mdash; Brillion<\/li>\n<li>54129 &mdash; Hilbert<\/li>\n<li>54169 &mdash; Sherwood<\/li>\n<li>53088 &mdash; Stockbridge<\/li>\n<li>53153 &mdash; Potter<\/li>\n<li>54123 &mdash; Forest Junction<\/li>\n<li>53042 &mdash; Kiel (Manitowoc County post office, also serves the Calumet County part of the city)<\/li>\n<li>54952 &mdash; Menasha (also serves Harrison village)<\/li>\n<li>54130 &mdash; Kaukauna<\/li>\n<li>54915 &mdash; Appleton (also serves Darboy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several small unincorporated places, including Dundas, Kloten, Charlesburg, Brant, Hayton, and Saint Anna, have no post office of their own and are served by the ZIP code of the nearest listed town.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Calumet County occupies a narrow, roughly triangular strip on the eastern side of Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin&#8217;s largest inland lake, which forms most of its western boundary. Land in the western half is flat lake-plain farmland; the eastern half rises onto the Niagara Escarpment, a limestone ridge that runs the length of the county and shows up in local quarries and low bluffs. The Manitowoc River and several smaller creeks drain the county&#8217;s eastern uplands toward Lake Michigan. The &#8220;Holyland,&#8221; a cluster of German Catholic farming communities named for towns like Saint Anna, Marytown, and Charlesburg, sits in the county&#8217;s southern towns of Charlestown and New Holstein.<\/p>\n<p>Calumet County borders <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/brown-county-wisconsin\/\">Brown County<\/a> to the northeast, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/manitowoc-county\/\">Manitowoc County<\/a> to the east, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/sheboygan-county\/\">Sheboygan County<\/a> to the southeast, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/fond-du-lac-county\/\">Fond du Lac County<\/a> to the southwest, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/winnebago-county-wisconsin\/\">Winnebago County<\/a> to the west, and <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/outagamie-county\/\">Outagamie County<\/a> to the northwest.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Calumet County had 52,442 residents at the 2020 census, spread across a land area of 318 square miles for a density of roughly 165 people per square mile. Chilton (3,933) and New Holstein (3,236) are the largest incorporated communities wholly inside the county; Sherwood village (2,741) and the Harrison-township fringe of the Appleton-Menasha-Kaukauna urban area account for much of the county&#8217;s fastest recent growth. Median household income in Calumet County runs above the Wisconsin median of $74,631, reflecting the county&#8217;s mix of manufacturing jobs and commuter households working in the Fox Cities.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Agriculture remains central to Calumet County&#8217;s economy \u2014 dairy farming in particular, with the county long counting more cattle than people. Manufacturing is concentrated in Brillion, home to Brillion Iron Works (agricultural and construction equipment) and several other metal-fabrication employers, and in Chilton and New Holstein, which host food-processing and machine-shop operations. The Harrison-township portion of the county, closest to Lake Winnebago and the Fox Cities, has grown as a bedroom community for workers commuting into Appleton, Neenah, and Menasha. County government, schools, and the Chilton and New Holstein hospitals are the largest public-sector employers.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>Calumet County was created from Brown County in 1836, while Wisconsin was still a territory, and organized as a functioning county government on February 5, 1850. Its name comes from the French word &#8220;calumet,&#8221; the ceremonial pipe used by Native American nations around Lake Winnebago; early 19th-century French traders applied the term to the region before it became a county name. German and Luxembourg Catholic immigrants settled the southern Holyland towns from the 1840s onward, giving the area its distinctive cluster of church-centered farm villages. In the 21st century the county drew national attention as the setting of the Netflix documentary series &#8220;Making a Murderer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>U.S. Route 10, State Highway 55, and State Highway 57 are the county&#8217;s main roads, linking Chilton and New Holstein to the Fox Cities and to Manitowoc on Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Appleton \u2014 15 miles northwest<\/li>\n<li>Green Bay \u2014 30 miles north<\/li>\n<li>Manitowoc \u2014 20 miles east<\/li>\n<li>Fond du Lac \u2014 25 miles south<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The nearest commercial airport is Appleton International Airport (ATW), just across the county line in Outagamie County.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Calumet County, Wisconsin?<\/strong><br \/>It sits on the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago in northeastern Wisconsin, between the Fox Cities and Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Calumet County?<\/strong><br \/>52,442 people at the 2020 census.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Calumet County?<\/strong><br \/>397 square miles (1,030 km2) total, of which 318 square miles is land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Calumet County?<\/strong><br \/>Chilton is the county seat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and villages are in Calumet County?<\/strong><br \/>Seven cities (several shared with neighboring counties), five villages, nine towns, and about twenty unincorporated communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes are in Calumet County?<\/strong><br \/>Chilton uses 53014, New Holstein 53061, Brillion 54110, Hilbert 54129, Sherwood 54169, Stockbridge 53088, and Potter 53153, among others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the Holyland?<\/strong><br \/>A group of German and Luxembourg Catholic farming communities in southern Calumet County, including Saint Anna, Marytown, and Charlesburg, named for their concentration of Catholic parishes.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/wisconsin\/\">Towns and villages in Wisconsin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calumet County is a county in Wisconsin, United States, on the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago. It had a population of 52,442 at the 2020 census and covers 397 square miles (1,030 km2), of which 318 square miles (820 km2) is land and 79 square miles (200 km2) is water, centred near 44\u00b005\u2032N 88\u00b013\u2032W. 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