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| Fox Point, Wisconsin | |
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| Village | |
 Location of Fox Point, Wisconsin |
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| Coordinates: 43°9′37″N 87°54′14″W / 43.16028°N 87.90389°WCoordinates: 43°9′37″N 87°54′14″W / 43.16028°N 87.90389°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wisconsin |
| County | Milwaukee |
| Incorporated | 1926 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.90 sq mi (7.51 km2) |
| • Land | 2.90 sq mi (7.51 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 686 ft (209 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 6,701 |
| • Estimate (2016) | 6,691 |
| • Density | 2,310.7/sq mi (892.2/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Area code(s) | 414 |
| FIPS code | 55-27075 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1565227 |
| Website | vil |
Fox Point is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 6,701 at the 2010 census.
Fox Point is located along the North Shore area of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. It is named after a small point extending into Lake Michigan. In addition to Lake Michigan, it adjoins the surrounding communities of Bayside, River Hills, Glendale, and Whitefish Bay. Mainly residential, Fox Point is also home to the RiverPoint Village shopping center at the far northwest end of the village.
Dutch settlers arrived in what is now Fox Point (then part of Milwaukee) as early as the 1840s, building a schoolhouse, a Dutch Reformed congregation, and a cemetery that has markers dating to 1854. Today the Dutch Pioneer Cemetery is a Wisconsin registered landmark. As the 1800s progressed, other immigrant groups, primarily Germans, settled in the area.
By the 1920s, affluent merchants and business owners moved with their families into the area and Fox Point was incorporated as a village in 1926, although the population remained in the hundreds through World War II. After his death in 1928, physician Joseph Schneider left his land to Milwaukee County for the establishment of a park and beachfront reserve now known as "Doctors Park", which was dedicated in 1936. In the post-war boom, Fox Point grew, with its population peaking in the 1970s at nearly 8,000. The village's population has remained steady – near 7,000 people – in the decades since.
Fox Point is located at 43°9′37″N 87°54′14″W / 43.16028°N 87.90389°W (43.160409, -87.903994).
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