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De Pere
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city in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Wisconsin
- County
- Brown
- Incorporated village
- March 6, 1857
- Incorporated city
- March 31, 1883
- Mayor
- James Boyd
- Total
- 12.78 sq mi (33.09 km )
- Land
- 11.96 sq mi (30.97 km )
- Water
- 0.82 sq mi (2.12 km )
- Elevation
- 600 ft (183 m)
- Density
- 2,088.4/sq mi (806.35/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 (Central)
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 55-19775
- Website
- https://www.deperewi.gov/
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- De Pere
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Brown County
- Population
- 25410
- Area
- 31.846112
- Elevation
- 183
- Official website
- www.de-pere.org
- Image
- Depere Dam Depere Wisconsin.jpg
- Households
- 9770
- Dialing code
- 920
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- Commons category
- De Pere, Wisconsin
- topic's main category
- Category:De Pere, Wisconsin
- postal code
- 54115
- inception
- 1857-00-00
- P8168
- Katie Featherston
- water as percent of area
- 5.8486
- per capita income
- 33949
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
Wisconsin Historical Society Marker 189: Marquette-Joliet. Located on Front St in east De Pere.De Pere (/diˈpɪər/ dee-PEER) is a city in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States, located on the ancestral homeland of the Menominee people. When French explorer Jean Nicolet visited in 1634–35, the site was home to a multi-tribal settlement of several thousand people, drawn by the abundant fishing at the first rapids of the Fox River. The Menominee, who call themselves Mamaceqtaw ("the people"), have inhabited the Fox River valley for over 10,000 years and are the only Wisconsin tribe with no migration story—their origin is in this land.
In 1671, French Jesuit missionary Claude-Jean Allouez founded the St. Francis Xavier Mission at the rapids, establishing a base for proselytizing Indigenous peoples of the western Great Lakes. The site became known as Rapides des Pères ("rapids of the fathers"), later shortened to De Pere.
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