The Fox Cities of Northeastern Wisconsin are the cities, towns and villages along the
Fox River as it flows from
Lake Winnebago northward into
Green Bay.
The Fox Cities communities, as defined by its Chamber of Commerce and Convention and Visitors Bureau, include:
*
Calumet County
*
Outagamie County
*
Winnebago County
* The cities of
Appleton
Appleton may refer to:
People
*Appleton (surname)
Places Australia
* Appleton Dock
Canada
* Appleton, Newfoundland and Labrador
* Appleton, Ontario
United Kingdom
* Appleton, a deserted medieval village site in the parish of Flitcham w ...
(pop. 74,526),
Kaukauna (16,246),
Menasha
Menasha () is a city in Calumet and Winnebago counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 18,268 at the 2020 census. Of this, 15,144 were in Winnebago County, and 2,209 were in Calumet County. The city is located mostly in Winne ...
(18,268),
Neenah (26,062), and
Oshkosh (67,004).
* The villages of
Combined Locks
Combined Locks is a village in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,328 at the 2010 census.
History
A post office called Combined Locks has been in operation since 1892. The village was named from the canal locks near ...
(pop. 3,588),
Fox Crossing (19,029),
Harrison (11,532),
Hortonville (2,767),
Kimberly
Kimberly or Kimberley may refer to:
Places and historical events
Australia
* Kimberley (Western Australia)
** Roman Catholic Diocese of Kimberley
* Kimberley Warm Springs, Tasmania
* Kimberley, Tasmania a small town
* County of Kimberley, a c ...
(6,803),
Little Chute (11,564),
Sherwood (2,985), and
Greenville (10,309)
* The
towns of
Buchanan Buchanan may refer to:
People
* Buchanan (surname)
Places Africa
* Buchanan, Liberia, a large coastal town
Antarctica
* Buchanan Point, Laurie Island
Australia
* Buchanan, New South Wales
* Buchanan, Northern Territory, a locality
* Buchanan ...
(pop. 6,755),
Clayton (3,951),
Freedom
Freedom is understood as either having the ability to act or change without constraint or to possess the power and resources to fulfill one's purposes unhindered. Freedom is often associated with liberty and autonomy in the sense of "giving on ...
(5,842),
Grand Chute (20,919),
Greenville,
Kaukauna (1,238),
Neenah (3,237),
Vandenbroek (1,474).
Major points of interest include the
Fox Cities Exhibition Center,
Community First Champion Center
The Community First Champion Center is a indoor sports center in Grand Chute, in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The facility is primarily intended to be used for youth sports/community sporting activities and as of early 2019 is not planned to ...
,
Fox Cities Performing Arts Center,
High Cliff State Park, and
Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium
Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium is a baseball park in Grand Chute, Wisconsin (although it has an Appleton mailing address). It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, the Midwest Lea ...
. The
Fox River Mall
Fox River Mall is an enclosed super-regional shopping center located in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, United States, which serves the Appleton, Wisconsin metropolitan area. It is a major driver of the local economy and its construction helped spur th ...
is the largest shopping mall in the state at 1.2 million square feet.
Area post-secondary schools include
Fox Valley Technical College,
Lawrence University, and the
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Fox Cities Campus
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ro ...
.
Bus transit for the area is provided by
Valley Transit and
commercial airline service is provided by
Appleton International Airport.
Major highway routes in the area include:
Interstate 41/
U.S. Route 41, which connects the Fox Cities with
Green Bay and
Milwaukee;
Wisconsin Highway 441, known locally as the Tri-County Expressway, which is an auxiliary highway of Interstate 41 that serves as a beltway around Appleton; and
U.S. Route 10
U.S. Route 10 or U.S. Highway 10 (US 10) is an east–west United States highway located in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions of the United States. Unlike most U.S. routes with "0" as the last digit of its route number, US 10 ...
which travels east-west, connecting the Fox Cities with
Stevens Point,
Waupaca and
Manitowoc, along with
Interstate 39 and
Wausau.
Television and radio stations in the area, usually originating out of
Green Bay, utilize the term "Green Bay/Fox Cities" in their
station identifications to encompass both major population centers in the region.
Combined Statistical Area
The Fox Cities constitute a portion of the Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, WI
Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which also includes the City of
Oshkosh and rural portions of
Calumet,
Outagamie and
Winnebago Winnebago can refer to:
* The exonym of the Ho-Chunk tribe of Native North Americans with reservations in Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin
** Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, a federally recognized tribe group in the state
** The Winnebago language of the ...
Counties. As of the 2010 Census, the CSA had a population of 392,660 (2017 estimate: 406,540),
making it the
third largest CSA in Wisconsin, behind
Milwaukee and
Madison.
At night
References
External links
Fox Cities Chamber of CommerceFox Cities Convention and Visitors BureauFox Cities Regional Partnership
{{Great Lakes Megalopolis
Metropolitan areas of Wisconsin