Saukville (town), Wisconsin

Town of Saukville, Wisconsin
Town
Location of Town of Saukville in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin.
Coordinates: 43°19′07″N 87°59′03″W / 43.31861°N 87.98417°W / 43.31861; -87.98417
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Ozaukee
Settled	c. 1845
Incorporated	1848; 176 years ago (1848)
Government
• Town Chairperson	Kevin Kimmes
• Clerk	Raquel Engelke
• Treasurer	Gloria Arredondo
• Board of supervisors	Supervisors Michael Denzien Curt Rutkowski
Area [1]
• Total	33.3 sq mi (86.4 km2)
• Land	32.7 sq mi (84.6 km2)
• Water	0.7 sq mi (1.8 km2)
Elevation [2]	896 ft (237 m)
Population  (2000)
• Total	1,755
• Density	53.7/sq mi (20.7/km2)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code	262
Website	townsaukville.org

Saukville is a town in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The Village of Saukville is located in the town's southeast quadrant. The population was 1,755 at the 2000 census.

Menominee and Sauk Native Americans lived in the area until the 1830s when the U.S. Federal Government forced them to leave Wisconsin. The first white settlers in the mid-1840s, and the Town of Saukville was organized in 1848. The early settlers were farmers, and dairy farming became the primary economic activity by the early 1900s. The Village of Saukville incorporated from some of the town's land in 1915, and while the village has become increasingly industrial, agriculture still plays a major role in the Town of Saukville's economy.

The town has thousands of acres of undeveloped, biodiverse bogs, coniferous swamps, and primeval beech-maple forests. The largest of the community's natural areas is the 2,200-acre Cedarburg Bog State Natural Area. The town's bogs are a habitat for many endangered species, birds, and carnivorous plants. Among other landforms, the Cedarburg Bog contains a string bog—a geographic feature that seldom occurs as far south as Wisconsin—which contains many plant species rarely seen outside remote parts of Canada.