Plum Island (Wisconsin)

Plum Island (Wisconsin)

Plum Island is an island at the western shore of Lake Michigan in the southern part of the town of Washington in Door County, Wisconsin, USA. The uninhabited island has a land area of 1.179 km² or 117.87 ha (0.455 sq mi, or 291.25 acres). The island is a bird sanctuary under control of the U.S. Coast Guard and will eventually become part of the Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge. The island also holds the unmanned Plum Island Range Lights. There are nearly 250 shipwrecks off the island's shores.

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* [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-show_geoid=Y&-tree_id=4001&-_caller=geoselect&-context=dt&-errMsg=&-all_geo_types=N&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_P001&-redoLog=false&-transpose=N&-search_map_config=|b=50|l=en|t=4001|zf=0.0|ms=sel_00dec|dw=0.14220362683109156|dh=0.07567039374579135|dt=gov.census.aff.domain.map.EnglishMapExtent|if=gif|cx=-86.81761578743385|cy=45.41486453547703|zl=4|pz=4|bo=318:317:316:314:313:323:319|bl=362:393:358:357:356:355:354|ft=350:349:335:389:388:332:331|fl=381:403:204:380:369:379:368|g=06000US5502983600&-PANEL_ID=p_dt_geo_map&-_lang=en&-geo_id=100$10000US550299801002128&-CONTEXT=dt&-format=&-search_results=15000US550299801002&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U Plum Island: Block 2128, Block Group 2, Census Tract 9801, Door County, Wisconsin] United States Census Bureau
*"Speaker will discuss Plum Island bird survey", "Beaver Dam Daily Citizen", Friday, December 9, 2005


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