Fox Crossing is a
village
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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. The population as of the 2020 census was 18,974. It was incorporated from the former town of
Menasha in 2016.
Fox Crossing is located in the
Fox Cities region and the
Oshkosh metropolitan area.
History
The Town of Menasha was organized on April 3, 1855, in part from land formerly belonging to the
Town of Neenah. The original land area of the town was reduced over several decades due to annexations from the cities of
Menasha and
Appleton.
After town residents west of
Little Lake Butte des Morts approved a referendum to incorporate, the Village was incorporated on April 20, 2016. On August 17, 2016, an agreement was reached between the Village of Fox Crossing and the remaining Town of Menasha to annex all remaining town lands to Fox Crossing. This agreement effectively ended the existence of the Town of Menasha. On September 22, 2016, the remaining parts of the town of Menasha became part of the Village of Fox Crossing. Officials from Fox Crossing reportedly told officials from nearby municipalities that the sole motivation for incorporation was to avoid being annexed by a larger community.
A prominent feature of the village's early history was border struggles; Fox Crossing was sued by the
town of Clayton and
town of Neenah over separate disputes. Clayton sued Fox Crossing in December 2017 over a 72-acre annexation the previous September, and Fox Crossing sued Clayton in 2018 over a wastewater collection settlement with the
Department of Natural Resources
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Clayton had previously rebuffed attempts by Fox Crossing to annex three more high-value acres of land in exchange for wastewater service.
In 2020, the town and village agreed to a wastewater collection plan. Clayton paid Fox Crossing a one-time sum of $11.5 million and Fox Crossing agreed to a decade of inaction annexing land in Clayton. In June 2020, Fox Crossing annexed over a hundred acres of land from the town of Neenah at the site of a future
Neenah High School. It was later revealed that Fox Crossing and Neenah had a border agreement in place from 2016 through 2019; the town blamed Fox Crossing for failing to find a long-term border solution.
Geography
Fox Crossing is located at the north end of
Lake Winnebago along the
Fox River which forms
Little Lake Butte des Morts through the Village. The Village partially surrounds the
City of Menasha. Other adjacent communities include:
Harrison to the east, the
City of Neenah and
Town of Neenah to the south,
Clayton to the west, and the
Outagamie County communities of
Greenville and
Grand Chute to the north and
Appleton to the northeast.
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the Village has a total area of , of which is land and , or 12.50%, is water.
Demographics
As of the
census of 2020, the city's population was 18,974. There were 8,572 total housing units and the employment rate was 65.5% in 2020. 1,304 (6.87%) residents were
Hispanic
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or
Latino. The
median household income
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was $70,664.
Education
Public education is provided by the
Neenah Joint School District, west of
Little Lake Butte des Morts, and the Menasha Joint School District, east of the lake.
St. Mary Catholic High School and St. Mary Catholic Middle School are located in Fox Crossing.
Points of Interest
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Fox River
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Friendship State Trail
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Lake Winnebago
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Little Lake Butte des Morts
*Tri-County Arena
Transportation
Major transportation routes in Fox Crossing include:
Appleton International Airport is located adjacent to Fox Crossing in
Greenville.
Valley Transit provides bus services.
References
External links
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Villages in Winnebago County, Wisconsin
Villages in Wisconsin
Appleton–Fox Cities metropolitan area
2016 establishments in Wisconsin