List of city nicknames in Wisconsin

This list of city nicknames in Wisconsin compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that Wisconsin's cities and towns are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to local residents, outsiders or their tourism boards. City nicknames can help in establishing a civic identity, helping outsiders recognize a community or attracting people to a community because of its nickname; promote civic pride; and build community unity.Muench, David [http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/economies/communityindicators/communityslogans.pdf "Wisconsin Community Slogans: Their Use and Local Impacts"] , December 1993, accessed April 10, 2007.] They are also believed to have economic value, but their economic value is difficult to measure.

Some of the nicknames are positive, while others are derisive. The unofficial nicknames listed here are those that have been used for such a long time or have gained so wide a currency that they have become well-known in their own right.
*Algoma - Wisconsin's Trout and Salmon Capital.Muench, David [http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/economies/communityindicators/communityslogans.pdf "Wisconsin Community Slogans: Their Use and Local Impacts"] , December 1993, accessed April 10, 2007.]
*Algoma - Warm Welcomes, Cool Breezes and Hot Fishing.
*Allenton - You Have Friends in Allenton.
*Alma Center - Strawberry Capital of Wisconsin.
*Amery - City of Lakes.
*Arbor Vitae/Woodruff - Crossroads of the North.
*Ashland - Ashland Tops Wisconsin.
*Babcock - The Cranberry Pie Capital.
*Barron - The Biggest Little Town in Wisconsin.
*Baraboo - Circus City of the World.
*Barron - Turkey Capital of Wisconsin.
*Bayfield - Best Kept Secret in Wisconsin.
*Bear Creek - Home of the World's Largest Sauerkraut Plant.
*Beaver Dam - Beaver Dam - Make Yourself at Home.
*Belleville - UFO Capital of the World.
*Belmont - Home of the First Territorial Capital.
*Beloit - Gateway to Wisconsin.
*Berlin - Fur and Leather Capital.
*Birchwood - Bluegill Capital of Wisconsin. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9F0CE6DC1430F931A2575AC0A965958260 The World Capital of Whatever] , "The New York Times" by Harold Faber, September 12, 1993.]
*Black Creek - Birthplace of the First Organized National Baseball Team.
*Black Earth - The Only Black Earth in the World.
*Black River Falls - Deer Capital of Wisconsin.
*Blanchardville - The Village in the Valley.
*Bloomer - Rope Jump Capital of the World.
*Blue River - Heart of the Lower Wisconsin River.
*Bonduel - Spelling Capital of Wisconsin.
*Boscobel
**Birthplace of the Gideon Bible.
**Turkey Hunting Capital of Wisconsin.
*Boulder Junction - Musky Capital of the World.
*Boyceville - Cucumber Capital of Wisconsin.
*Boyd - The Friendly Town - Why Go By.
*Brodhead - The Bicycle Gateway to Wisconsin.
*Burlington - Chocolate City, USA.
*Cambridge - The Umbrella City.
*Cassville - Where History, Bald Eagles and the Mississippi Meet.
*Cedarburg - Historic Cedarburg.
*Chippewa Falls - Naturally the World's Purest Water.
*Clam Lake - Heart of the Chequamegon National Forest.
*Clintonville - The Good Life Unlimited.
*Colby - Home of Colby Cheese.
*Columbus - Red Bud City.
*Combined Locks
**Headwaters Vacationland.
**Conservation, Protection, Preservation.
*Cornell - Stacker City.
*Cornucopia - Wisconsin's Northern Most Post Office.
*Cross Plains - Famous For Friendliness.
*Cuba City - The City of Presidents.
*Cumberland - Rutabaga Capital.
*Delavan - Clown Town, U.S.A.
*Dickeyville - Home of the Famous Dickeyville Grotto.
*Dousman - Bullfrog Station.
*Eagle River
**Snowmobile Capital of the World.
**Wisconsin's Cranberry Country.
*Eau Claire
**Horseradish Capital of the World. [http://www.epodunk.com/slogans/food.html Claims to Fame - Food] , Epodunk, accessed April 16, 2007.]
*Eden - Hometown of Baseball Star Jim Gantner.
*Edgar - Progressive Village Serving People.
*Edgerton - Tobacco City.
*Elkhorn - The Christmas Card City.
*Elkhorn - Living in Harmony.
*Ellsworth - Cheese Curd Capital of Wisconsin.
*Elmwood - UFO Capital of the World.
*Ephraim - The Pearl of the Peninsula.
*Ettrick - Fun City, USA.
*Evansville - Soybean Capital of Wisconsin
*Fennimore - Fennimore..."The City on the Move!".
*Florence County - Heart of Wild Rivers Country.
*Fond du Lac - Winners Choice.
*Forest Junction - You Can Get There From Here.
*Fox Cities - Refreshing Change of Place.
*Francis Creek - A Nice Place to Live.
*Fox Lake - Home of Bunny Berigan.
*Fremont - White Bass Capital of the World. [http://www.epodunk.com/slogans/fish.html Claims to Fame - Fish] , Epodunk, accessed April 16, 2007.]
*Galesville - Garden of Eden.
*Gays Mills - The Apple Capital of Wisconsin [ [http://www.gaysmills.org/ Village of Gays Mills, Wisconsin - Apple Capital of Wisconsin ] ]
*Germantown - Deutschstadt.
*Gleason - Brook Trout Fishing Capital of the World.
*Glidden - Black Bear Capital of the World.
*Grantsburg - Home of Big Gust.
*Green Bay
**Toilet paper Capital of the World.
**Titletown USA. [Peterson, Davis. [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-62604534.html " Titletown again; The Packers put away the Patriots 35-21 for the NFL crown, and after 29 years, Green Bay again reigns as Titletown, USA. Frenzied fans and bedlam abound in Loony Land of Lombardi."] , "Star Tribune", January 27, 1997. Accessed June 13, 2007.]
*Green Lake - Wisconsin's Lake Trout Capital.
*Haugen - Kolache Capital.
*Hayward - Home of World Record Muskies.
*Hazel Green - Point of Beginning.
*Hillsboro - Czech Capital of Wisconsin. [ [http://www.hillsborowi.com/ Welcome to Hillsboro ] ]
*Holmen - Yes, Holmen.
*Horicon - Home of the Horicon Marsh.
*Hurley - Where 51 Ends...Family Fun Begins.
*Janesville
**Bower City [ [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/WLHBA/articleView.asp?pg=1&id=7124&hdl=&np=&adv=yes&ln=&fn=&q=&y1=&y2=&ci=Janesville&co=&mhd=&shd= " The Bower City is Proud of Pioneers."] , "Janesville Recorder", April 20, 1911. Accessed July 26, 2008]
**City of Parks. [ [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-64442089.html " JANESVILLE PLANS NEW PARK NEAR THE RIVER AND LIBRARY THE SITE WOULD FOCUS ON CHILDREN WITH SHADE-TREE READING PROGRAMS."] , "Wisconsin State Journal", August 20, [2000. Accessed June 13, 2007. "The place that bills itself as the ``City of Parks" might be getting another one -- a unique space near Hedberg Public Library catered to children."]
**Wisconsin's Park Place.
*Jefferson - The Gemuetlichkeit City.
*Jim Falls - Biggest Little Town on the River.
*Johnson Creek - Crossroads With a Future.
*Juda - Buffalo Roast Capital of Wisconsin.
*Juneau - Birthplace of Addie Jones.
*Kaukauna - The Electric City. [ [http://www.cityofkaukauna.com/about/didyouknow.asp Did You Know? Facts About the City of Kaukauna, Wisconsin ] ]
*Kenosha - Kenosha...For All Seasons.
*Kewaskum - Gateway to the Kettle Moraine State Forest.
*Kewaunee - Kewaunee - Spirit of the Lakeshore.
*Lac du Flambeau - Lake of Torches.
*La Crosse - God's Country.
*Lake Geneva - Enjoyed for Over 100 Years by the Rich & Famous.
*Lake Tomahawk - Snowshoe Baseball Capital of the World.
*Lancaster - City of the Dome.
*Land O' Lakes - Land of Four Seasons Fun.
*Langlade County - Wisconsin's Get-Away County.
*Lodi - Home of Susie the Duck.
*Lone Rock - Coldest Spot in the Nation (With the Warmest Heart).
*Madison
**Mad City [ [http://danenet.wicip.org/hmi/capitalidea/photos/132.html A Symbol for a City] , on the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission's "Madison: A Capital Idea" website, accessed January 5, 2008. "An art lover at the 1976 Art Fair on the Square sports the Mad City T-shirt created by Russ Frank of the Madison Top Company two years earlier."]
**Madtown
*Manitowish - Waters Wisconsin's Northwoods Year-Round Vacationland.
*Manitowoc
**Wisconsin's Maritime Capital.
**Manty
*Marinette - Marinette County Waterfalls Capital of Wisconsin.
*Marshfield
**The City in the Center.
**Cheese City USA.
*Mayville - Jayville.
*Mazomanie - Turn-of-the-Century Railroad Town.
*Medford - People, Pride and Progress.
*Menasha (city) - Menasha on the Move.
*Menasha (town) - Bridging the Fox Cities.
*Menomonie - Traditional Yet Progressive.
*Mercer - Loon Capital of the World.
*Merrill - Enjoy the Merrill Advantage.
*Middleton - The Good Neighbor City.
*Milwaukee
**A Great Place on a Great Lake.
**Brew City/Brew Town [ [http://www.cnn.com/US/9610/31/pabst.closing/index.html Brew City loses its oldest brewery] , by Lisa Price, October 31, 1996, on CNN.com website. "Milwaukee has never had an identity crisis -- as one city resident said, 'We've been Brew City for 135 years.'"]
**City of Festivals.
**Cream City [The "Cream City" nickname refers to the cream-colored brick produced in Milwaukee and used in many of its 19th century buildings. [http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/closeups/cream_city_brick/cream_city_brick.htm Cream City Brick] , by Terry Pepper, updated 12/02/2007.]
**Mil-town [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7574547.html Magazine tips hat to Mil-town] , by Jan Uebelherr, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 31, 2007. "Spin magazine takes a dizzying spin through Brewtown in its September issue in a little travelogue called '72 Hours in Milwaukee.'"]
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*Milton - History in Progress.
*Mineral Point - The City Where Wisconsin Began.
*Minocqua - The Island City.
*Monona - City of Pride, and It Shows.
*Monroe - Swiss Cheese Capital of the U.S.A.
*Montfort - Home of the Fort.
*Mt. Horeb - The Troll Capital.
*Muscoda - Morel Mushroom Capital of Wisconsin.
*New Auburn - Gateway to the Ice Age Park.
*New Berlin - City Living with a Touch of Country., New Bizzle, New Beezy
*New Glarus - America's Little Switzerland.
*New Holstein - Cow Town, USA.
*New London - Heart of Wolf River Country.
*New Richmond- The Dirty Nerr
*The Dirty
*The City Beautiful.
*Norwalk - The Black Squirrel Capital of the World.
*Oconomowoc - A Special Place.
*Oconto - Oconto - History on the Bay.
*Omro - Bridge to the Future.
*Onalaska - Sunfish Capital of the World.
*Oregon - Horse Capital of Wisconsin.
*Oshkosh - Oshkosh on the Water.
*Palmyra - Heartbeat of the Kettle Moraine.
*Pardeeville - Home of the World Watermelon Eating and Seed Spitting Championships.
*Park Falls - Ruffed Grouse Capital of the World. [http://www.epodunk.com/slogans/birds.html Claims to Fame - Birds] , Epodunk, accessed April 16, 2007.]
*Peshtigo - Home of the Great Peshtigo Fire.
*Phelps - Headwaters County (Start of Wisconsin River).
*Phillips - We've Saved a Place for You!
*Phillips - Trophy Whitetail Capital.
*Pittsville - Exact Geographical Center of the State.
*Platteville - Home of the Chicago Bears Summer Training Camp.
*Plover - Golden Sands Area.
*Plum City - A Small Village in a Peaceful Valley.
*Plymouth - The Cream of Wisconsin.
*Poniatowski - The Center of the Northwestern World.
*Portage - Historic Portage.
*Port Washington
**Picturesque Port Washington.
**Jewel of the Lake Michigan Shore.
*Potosi-Tennyson - Catfish Capital of Wisconsin
*Prairie du Chien - Wisconsin's Second Oldest Settlement (Where Great Rivers Meet)
*Prescott - Where the Mighty Mississippi Meets the Beautiful St. Croix River.
*Presque Isle
**Walleye Capital of the World.
**Wisconsin's Last Wilderness.
*Price County - We've Saved a Place for You.
*Princeton - Princeton on the Fox - Where Yesterday Meets Tomorrow.
*Pulaski - Polka Town.
*Racine
**Kringle Capital of the World.
**The Belle City. [ [http://racine.wi.net/ Racine, Wisconsin the Belle City of the Lakes.] , Racine, Wisconsin. Accessed June 13, 2007.]
*Randolph - A Great Place to Grow.
*Redgranite - Home of the State Rock.
*Reedsburg - Butter Capital of America.
*Rhinelander - Home of the Hodag. [ [http://www.rhinelanderchamber.com/ The Rhinelander Area Chamber of Commerce welcomes you to the Northwoods of Wisconsin! ] ]
*Richland Center - From Farming to Frank Lloyd Wright.
*Ripon - Birthplace of the Republican Party.
*Sauk City/Prairie du Sac - Cow Chip Throwing Capital of Wisconsin.
*Saukville - Saukville Will Work for You.
*Sayner-Star Lake - The Birthplace of the Snowmobile [A local mechanic and businessman built the first workable snowmobile in his shop in Sayner ( [http://www.sayner-starlake.org/about_sayner_star_lake_wisconsin.shtml About Plum Lake Township] , Sayner-Star Lake Chamber of Commerce website, accessed July 26, 2008).]
*Seymour - Home of the Hamburger. (Based on research indicating that the first hamburger was made at a fair in the city in 1885.)
*Sheboygan
**Bratwurst Capital of the World.
**The City of Cheese, Chairs, and Children
*Shiocton - Where Nature Begins.
*Siren - Lilac Capital of Wisconsin.
*Soldiers Grove - America's First Solar Village. [ [http://www.soldiersgrove.com/ Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin ] ]
*Somerset - Tubing Capital of the World.
*Sparta - Bicycling Capital of America.
*Spencer - A Friendly Small Town with a Future.
*Spooner - Crossroads of the North.
*Spring Valley - Home of the Largest Earthen Dam in the Midwest.
*St. Germain
**The Friendliest Town in the Northwoods.
**All Trails Lead to St. Germain.
**Birthplace of Colorama.
*Stevens Point - See Our Point of View.
**Gateway to the Pineries.
*Stockbridge - Sturgeon Center of the World.
*Stoughton - The City of Progress and Opportunity.
*Stratford - Stratford on the Move.
*Sun Prairie - The Groundhog Capital of the World. [http://www.epodunk.com/slogans/animals.html Claims to Fame - Animals] , Epodunk, accessed April 16, 2007.]
*Superior
**Where Sail Meets Rail.
**I'm a Superior Lover.
**Soup Town. [http://www.eskie.net/superior/twinports/ Twin Ports: Duluth/Superior] , accessed May 8, 2007. "Duluth, also known as the "Zenith City", is the larger of the two, and usually gets the most notoriety, but Superior, also referred to as "Soup Town"(because of common fog overhangs!) has a lot to offer residents as well as visitors."]
*Taycheedah - Sheepshead Fishing Capital of the World.
*Tomah - Gateway to Cranberry Country.
*Tomahawk - Gateway to the Northwoods.
*Trego - The Wild River City.
*Two Rivers
**Birthplace of the Ice Cream Sundae.
**Coolest Spot in Wisconsin or the Cool City.
*Verona - Hometown USA.
*Viroqua - Viroqua Quality - Discover It.
*Warrens - The Cranberry Capital of Wisconsin.
*Watertown - Home of the First Kindergarten in America.
*Waunakee - The Only Waunakee in the World.
*Waupaca - Chain-O-Lakes.
*Waupun
**City of Sculpture [ [http://www.cityofwaupun.org/ Welcome to Waupun, Wisconsin - The City of Sculptures ] ]
**Wild Goose Center of Wisconsin.
*Wausau - Our Peak Season Never Ends.
*Wausaukee - Ranger City USA.
*Wautoma - Christmas Tree Capital of the World.
*Webster - The Fishbowl of Wisconsin.
*Weyauwega - Home of Horse and Buggy Days.
*Wild Rose - The Land of Lakes and Streams.
*Wilton - The Heart of the Trail.
*Winchester - Wisconsin's Unchanged Wilderness.
*Winneconne - Winneconne on the Wolf.
*Wisconsin Dells — Waterpark Capital of the World (commercial, trademarked) [cite web|url=http://www.wisdells.com/|publisher=Wisconsin Visitors Bureau|title=Official Website of the Waterpark Capital of the World|year=2006|accessdate=2006-09-03; also, cover of 2006 Travel and Attraction Guide, ©2006 Ad Lit Inc.; printed on cover, with TM notice, "The Waterpark Capital of the World!^TM, as obtained from cite web|url=http://www.dells.com/|title=Wisconsin Dells Resorts|publisher=Ad Lit.|year=2006|accessdate=2006-09-03, which has the same slogan. City's website, cite web|title=City of Wisconsin Dells|url=http://www.dells.com/cityofwisdells/|accessdate=2006-09-03 does not mention the slogan.]
*Wisconsin Rapids - Paper City.
*Wonewoc
**Midpoint of the 400 Trail.
**We Are User Friendly.
*Woodman - The Dinky's Last Stop. (The Dinky was a narrow-gauge railroad connecting the communities of Fennimore and Woodman.)
*Woodruff - Home of the Million Penny Parade.

ee also

*List of city nicknames in the United States
*List of cities in Wisconsin
*List of towns in Wisconsin
*List of villages in Wisconsin

References

External links

* [http://got.net/~landauer/lists/CityOf.html a list] of American and a few Canadian nicknames
* [http://www.usacitiesonline.com/mottos.htm U.S. cities list]