Butte des Morts is an unincorporated

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

in the town of Winneconne and Oshkosh, in

Winnebago County, Wisconsin Winnebago County is a county (United States), county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 171,730. Its county seat is Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Oshkosh. It was named for the historic Ho- ...

, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 962. The community is located at the north side of (Big)

Lake Butte des Morts Big Lake Butte des Morts () is a shallow freshwater lake located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, in Winnebago County. It is part of the Winnebago Pool (also known as the ''Winnebago System'') of lakes in east central Wisconsin, along with Lake ...

on the former route of Wisconsin Highway 110. The name means "hill of the dead" in French. Butte des Morts uses the ZIP code 54927. The Augustin Grignon Hotel, listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

, is located within the community. Butte des Morts has an area of ; of this is land, and is water. Origin of Name In 1730 French soldiers and

Menominee The Menominee ( ; meaning ''"Menominee People"'', also spelled Menomini, derived from the Ojibwe language word for "Wild Rice People"; known as ''Mamaceqtaw'', "the people", in the Menominee language) are a federally recognized tribe of Na ...

warriors massacred people of the Sauk Nation. The French named the place the Hill of the Dead, or Butte des Morts.

Images

File:ButteDesMortesWisconsinPostOffice.jpg, Post office File:ButteDesMortesWisconsinSign.jpg, City welcome sign File:ButteDesMortesLions.jpg, Lions club File:AustinGrignonHotelButteDesMortesWisconsin.jpg, Austin Grignon Hotel File:Butte des Morts Plaque.jpg, historical plague

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Census-designated places in Wisconsin Census-designated places in Winnebago County, Wisconsin {{WinnebagoCountyWI-geo-stub