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Place Name
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Shawano County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Shawano
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Population
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37,157 (1990)
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Location
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Menominee County, Wisconsin (WI), United States, North America
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Latitude
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44°47'N
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Longitude
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88°45'W
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Shawano
, county (
909 sq mi/2,354 sq km; 1990 pop.
37,157), E central Wis.;  Shawano; 44°47'N 88°45'W. Drained
by Wolf and Embarrass rivers. Generally forested area, with sawmills
and agr. (barley, oats, corn, beans, potatoes, alfalfa, hay; cattle,
sheep, hogs; granite and marble. Stockbridge Indian Reservation in N,
Memominee Indian Reservation comprises all of Menominee co. to N;
Navarino Ski Area in S; largest of several lakes in co. (nearly in E)
is Shawano L. Formed 1853.
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