Kewaskum, Wisconsin
Kewaskum is a village in Washington and Fond du Lac counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 4,004 at the 2010 census. All of this population resided in the Washington County portion of the village. The village is located mostly within the Town of Kewaskum.
History
A post office called Kewaskum has been in operation since 1849. The settlement was named for Kewaskum, an Indian chief. Kewaskum was incorporated as a village on March 28, 1917. It was further expanded by annexations in the Town of Kewaskum; first in 1959, and then in twenty of the next forty-six years. In 1963, Kewaskum annexed a noncontiguous parcel of land in the Town of Auburn in Fond du Lac County.
Geography
The primary north-south highway serving Kewaskum is U.S. Route 45, and the primary east-west highway is Wisconsin Highway 28. Kewaskum is located in the 262 Area Code of south-eastern Wisconsin, with Prefix 626.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.45 square miles (6.35 km2), all of it land.
