Forest Glen Beach, Wisconsin
Green Lake is a town in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,258 at the 2000 census. The town is located on the south side of Green Lake (Wisconsin), Green Lake, with the city of Green Lake, Wisconsin, Green Lake on the north side. The unincorporated communities of Forest Glen Beach, Greenwyck, Indian Hills, Sandstone Bluff, Spring Grove, Tuleta Hills, and Utley are located in the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 48.6 square miles (125.8 km2), of which, 47.2 square miles (122.3 km2) of it is land and 1.3 square miles (3.5 km2) of it (2.76%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,258 people, 538 households, and 399 families residing in the town. The population density was 26.6 people per square mile (10.3/km2). There were 1,010 housing units at an average density of 21.4 per square mile (8.3/km2). The racial makeup ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, ...
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