Plymouth, Wisconsin
| Plymouth, Wisconsin | |
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Downtown Plymouth
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 Location of Plymouth, Wisconsin |
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| Coordinates: 43°44′57″N 87°58′36″W / 43.74917°N 87.97667°WCoordinates: 43°44′57″N 87°58′36″W / 43.74917°N 87.97667°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wisconsin |
| County | Sheboygan |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5.34 sq mi (13.83 km2) |
| • Land | 5.26 sq mi (13.62 km2) |
| • Water | 0.08 sq mi (0.21 km2) |
| Elevation | 843 ft (257 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 8,445 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 8,396 |
| • Density | 1,605.5/sq mi (619.9/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Area code(s) | 920 |
| FIPS code | 55-63700 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1571709 |
| Website | www |
For other places named Plymouth, in Wisconsin or elsewhere, see .
Plymouth is a city in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, along the Mullet River. It is included in the Sheboygan, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is located in the Town of Plymouth, but is politically independent. Plymouth is known as "Hub City" because of its central location in Sheboygan County, along with being an equidistant point in the Eastern Wisconsin region among Milwaukee, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, and Green Bay. The "Hub City" name also applies to it being a former regional center of wooden wheelwrighting. The population was 8,445 at the 2010 census. Mayor Don Pohlman was last reelected in April 2014.
Plymouth was surveyed in 1835 by United States engineers, one of whom was named Mullet, and the Mullet river was subsequently named after him. The first land sold to a private party was sold to an Englishman named John Law who had emigrated from London. It was sold to Law on August 13, 1836. The next sale was to another Englishman, also from London, named Thomas Margrave. Settlers continued trickling in and the town was organized on April 3, 1849. In the 1840s a group of immigrants arrived from Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Their ancestors had moved to that area from New England shortly after the American Revolution. The Thorpe family arrived from Hartford, Connecticut. They were of old New England ancestry. These immigrants being the original pool of settlers in Plymouth gave the region cultural continuity with New England. The town was named Plymouth, after Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the Pilgrims had landed in 1620.
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