Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Sheboygan County
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Sheboygan is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Sheboygan County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Sheboygan had 49 288 inhabitants.
Geography
Sheboygan is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Sheboygan River. The town is located about 80 km north of Milwaukee. The city covers an area of 36.4 km ², of which is about 1% of water.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Sheboygan 49 288 people in 20,308 households. The population density was 1369.1 people per square kilometer. In the 20,308 households lived statistically 2.38 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 82.5 percent white, 1.8 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 9.0 percent Asian and 3.6 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 9.9 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.9 percent were 65 years or older. 50.5 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 42,549. The per capita income was $ 21,924. 12.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Blue Harbor
The Blue Harbor Resort is a conference center, amusement park and recreation center, which opened in summer 2004. It includes a water park called " Breaker Bay ". The port is located on the peninsula at the mouth of the Sheboygan River into Lake Michigan.
Rocket launch site
Since 1995 Sheboygan various smaller missiles with peak heights of up to 3000 meters in the framework of the project " missiles for students " started. In addition, already sounding rockets of the type Super Loki with peak heights of 80 kilometers were started by the Florida Space Institute in Sheboygan. Sheboygan has also been proposed as a launch site for space rockets, because a large area is locked close to civilian air traffic.
Twin Cities
Sheboygan has several sister cities, including Esslingen am Neckar, and Tsubame, Niigata, Japan. Sheboygan maintains two cities with a student exchange.
Bratwurst
Many residents have Sheboygans German ancestors. Sheboygan County is known for its sausage, for which the German word " sausage " is used. There is an annual festival held the Bratwurst Days, which also includes the Johnsonville World Bratwurst Eating Championship, a Bratwurst - heard eating contest.
Conservatory of Music
Sheboygan is the seat of Sheboygan conservatory of music ( Sheboygan Conservatory of Music ). It finds mention in Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot " as the notes played by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon pretending musicians dressed as Daphne and Josephine, to have studied there in order to be included in the Ladies Chapel of "Sweet Sue ".
A real ladies' quartet, which was founded in 1946 in Sheboygan, were The Chordettes with their # 1 hit Mr. Sandman.
Memorable people
- Thomas Doyle, priest and canon lawyer
- Brett Engelhardt, hockey players in the German Ice Hockey League
- Patrick Matzdorf, Athlete
- George Sauer Jr., American football player
- Edward E. Smith, science fiction writer and chemist