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Waukesha
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city in and county seat of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States
Waukesha is a city in Wisconsin that serves as the county seat of Waukesha County, meaning it is the center of local government for the county. As a significant urban area in the state, it plays an important role in the region's administration and community life.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Prairie Village
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Waukesha County
- Population
- 71158
- Area
- 64.913634
- Elevation
- 271
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Waukesha County
- Shares border with
- Pewaukee
- Official website
- www.ci.waukesha.wi.us
- Image
- Old Waukesha County Courthouse front view 2012.jpg
- Households
- 29704
- Dialing code
- 262
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- start time
- 1895-01-01
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Milwaukee metropolitan area
- twinned administrative body
- Granada
- Commons category
- Waukesha, Wisconsin
- topic's main category
- Category:Waukesha, Wisconsin
- postal code
- 53189
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Waukesha, Wisconsin
- inception
- 1839-03-08
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Waukesha, Wisconsin
- P8168
- KPF
- water as percent of area
- 1.0188
- per capita income
- 34785
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- Wakasa Province
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Encyclopedic overview
Waukesha (/ˈwɔːkɪʃɔː/ WAW-ki-shaw) is a city in and the county seat of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 71,158 at the 2020 census. Located along the Fox River adjacent to the Village of Waukesha, it is the seventh-most populous city in Wisconsin. Waukesha is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Waukesha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.