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FIPS code. 55-64100 [5] GNIS feature ID. 1571799 [2] Website. www.portagewi.gov. Portage is a city in and the county seat of Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States. [6] The population was 10,581 at the 2020 census, [5] making it the largest city in Columbia County. The city is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The district includes several commercial structures in the low-lying area along the Portage Canal. Among them are the 1862 Wentworth Grain Elevator, [4] the 1881 Portage Hosiery complex, [5] the 1891 Portage Iron Works, [6] the 1916 T.H. Cochrane Company Warehouse, [7] and the 1920 Hyland Garage.
www.co.portage.wi.gov. Portage County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 70,377. [2] Its county seat is Stevens Point. [3] Portage County comprises the Stevens Point, WI Micropolitan Statistical Area and is included in the Wausau -Stevens Point- Wisconsin Rapids, WI Combined Statistical Area.
U.S. Historic district. Show map of Wisconsin Show map of the United States Show all. Location. Roughly bounded by W. Wisconsin, Cass and W. Emmett Sts. and MacFarlane Rd., Portage, Wisconsin. Coordinates. 43°32′34″N 89°28′01″W / 43.54278°N 89.46694°W / 43.54278; -89.46694. Area. 40 acres (16 ha)
History. The site is a two-mile crossing from the upper Fox river to the Wisconsin and Mississippi, used by Native Americans, French fur traders, Marquette and Jolliet, and British soldiers, before there were roads or railroads through Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [3]
Location of Portage County in Wisconsin. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Portage County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Portage County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which ...
The Church Hill Historic District is a mid-to-upper-class residential area north of Portage's downtown. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 for its significance in architecture and social history. [2] The district is named for the six churches on the hill. It lies on a southeast-sloping hillside with the downtown to ...
August 26, 1977. The Portage Canal was built to connect the Fox River and Wisconsin River at Portage, Wisconsin along the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway. [2] For a time, it completed a route from the north Atlantic Ocean, through the St. Lawrence Seaway and down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, and back to the Atlantic.