Title: St. Croix County, Wisconsin - Wikipedia
Headings: St. Croix County, Wisconsin
St. Croix County, Wisconsin
Contents
History
Geography
Major highways
Airport
National protected area
Adjacent counties
Demographics
Communities
Cities
Villages
Towns
Census-designated places
Unincorporated communities
Politics
Presidential elections results
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Content: The county was created in 1840 (then in the Wisconsin Territory) and organized in 1849. St. Croix County is part of the Minneapolis - St. Paul - Bloomington, MN -WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. Between 2000 and 2010, it was the fastest-growing county in Wisconsin. Soils of St. Croix County
Soils of Willow River State Park area
Contents
1 History
2 Geography
2.1 Major highways
2.2 Airport
2.3 National protected area
2.4 Adjacent counties
3 Demographics
4 Communities
4.1 Cities
4.2 Villages
4.3 Towns
4.4 Census-designated places
4.5 Unincorporated communities
5 Politics
6 See also
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links
History
St. Croix County of 1840 and today
St. Croix County was created on August 3, 1840 by the legislature of the Wisconsin Territory. It was named after the river on its western border. Sources vary on the origin of the name; the St. Croix River may have been named after Monsieur St. Croix, an explorer who drowned at the mouth of the river late in the seventeenth century. Another account credits Father Hennepin with giving this region the French name Ste Croix (Holy Cross) because of the burial markers located at the mouth of the river. La Pointe County (now extinct, see Bayfield County) was created from the northern portions of Wisconsin Territory's St. Croix County on February 19, 1845. When Wisconsin was admitted into the union as a state on May 29, 1848, the territorial St. Croix County was further divided, with the territory from the Mississippi River to the current border of Minnesota continuing as de facto Wisconsin Territory until on March 3, 1849, it and unorganized federal territory lying north of Iowa were used in the creation of the Minnesota Territory.