Columbia Encyclopedia entry: Peshtigo
Peshtigopĕsh'tĭgō′, city (1990 pop. 3,154), Marinette co., NE Wis., on the Peshtigo River 6 mi (9.7 km) inland from its mouth on Green Bay; inc. 1903. Located in a dairying and lumbering region, the city is a resort town that also produces paper, transportation equipment, laminated lumber, and tools. A nearby memorial and museum recall the Peshtigo Fire, Oct. 8, 1871, in which 1,182 people were killed by a wildfire that ultimately consumed more that 1 million acres (400,000 hectares) of forest. Peshtigo—at the time an important lumbering center—and several villages were destroyed. Because the disaster occurred in a remote area and on the same night as the Great Chicago Fire, it is little remembered.
See study by R. W. Wells (1968).
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Peshtigo (redirected from Peshtigo) is a city in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,357 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Marinette, WI–MI Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Peshtigo is most famous as the site of the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, in which more than 1,200 people perished. The city is located within the Town of Peshtigo.
Peshtigo is located at .
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.2 square miles, of which, 3.0 square miles of it is land and 0.2 square miles of it is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,357 people, 1,315 households, and 879 families residing in the...more »
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Wisconsin, upper midwestern state of the United States. It is bounded by Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, from which it is divided by the Menominee R. (N); Lake Michigan (E);...
