Gotham, Wisconsin
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Gotham (also Richland City) is a
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 count ...
, in the town of
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, in Richland County,
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, United States. It is located at the intersection of
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and
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. It is just north of the
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, northeast of Avoca and southeast of Richland Center. As of the 2020 census, its population was 189. __TOC__


History

The name Gotham came from Captain Myron Wheeler Gotham (1842-1902), who once resided in the village. Gotham died with his sons, Lucius and Myron, during a violent storm in the
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in 1902.Gotham:Origin of Name, Wisconsin Historical Society
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Demographics


See also

* List of census-designated places in Wisconsin


References


External links


Map of Gotham, Wisconsin
''Republican Observer'', 1956 Census-designated places in Wisconsin Census-designated places in Richland County, Wisconsin {{RichlandCountyWI-geo-stub