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skluth:
--- Quote from: SEWIGuy on June 06, 2023, 10:39:36 AM ---
--- Quote from: hobsini2 on June 06, 2023, 10:34:30 AM ---I could see Waukesha potentially be the next city over 100k.
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Kenosha is less than 100 people away, so I think that's obviously going to be the next one.
The problem with Waukesha is that it's been hemmed in with incorporated municipalities so there isn't much room to grow. It only grew by about 400 people between 2010 and 2020 - and sits at 71,000.
I actually think it will be quite awhile for another Wisconsin city to hit that mark after Kenosha. The largest of the remaining are all 20,000+ away and have the same issues that Waukesha has.
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Kenosha last three censuses:
2000 90,352
2010 99,218
2020 99,986
Kenosha's growth has been slowing. It may have even peaked like Racine. It wouldn't surprise me if the 2030 census showed a population decline even if it ekes over 100k in the next year or two.
triplemultiplex:
Kenosha was able to annex its way across I-94 to keep it's population growth up for a while there, but now like it's neighbor just up the coast, they're hemmed in by other villages/cities. Kind of interesting that Racine and Kenosha have basically switched population sizes in the last 50 years. If not for Kenosha's aggressive annexations, that wouldn't have happened.
dvferyance:
--- Quote from: triplemultiplex on June 05, 2023, 11:25:42 AM ---
--- Quote from: mgk920 on June 05, 2023, 11:15:36 AM ---
Has the time come to drop that threshold to 20K or 25K?
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Given the scale they're working at for the state map, I don't think so. The point of showing the incorporations of 10k+ is so one can omit some cartographic details like county roads, unincorporated place names and even interchange squares, in the case of Milwaukee.
However, I do feel like getting that yellow on the state-level map is cause for potentially having an inset map for that city. Been a long time since the official map did anything different with insets. Gotta be like 20 years since they added that Lake Country map for Waukesha County and the central Madison inset. That was the last big change.
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I believe West Bend is the largest city without an inset on the state map.
JREwing78:
WisDOT posted this to their Facebook page recently:
DYK? In April, we released an online archive of Wisconsin’s Official State Highway Map over the past 100 years. The archive is a fun time capsule of Wisconsin highway history – learn about road safety changes, highway improvements, tourism campaigns, and more. Spanning back to 1918, each year’s map is available for free viewing and downloading. Start your history lesson here:
https://wisconsindot.gov/Pages/travel/road/hwy-maps/default.aspx
hobsini2:
--- Quote from: JREwing78 on June 12, 2023, 10:49:27 PM ---WisDOT posted this to their Facebook page recently:
DYK? In April, we released an online archive of Wisconsin’s Official State Highway Map over the past 100 years. The archive is a fun time capsule of Wisconsin highway history – learn about road safety changes, highway improvements, tourism campaigns, and more. Spanning back to 1918, each year’s map is available for free viewing and downloading. Start your history lesson here:
https://wisconsindot.gov/Pages/travel/road/hwy-maps/default.aspx
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Very Cool.
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