Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay (/ɡrin ˈbeɪ/ green BAY)[12] is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The county seat of Brown County, it is at the head of Green Bay (known locally as "the bay of Green Bay"), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Fox River. As of the 2020 Census, Green Bay had a population of 107,395, making it the third-most populous city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee and Madison, and the third-largest city on Lake Michigan, after Chicago and Milwaukee.[13]
For the town, see Green Bay (town), Wisconsin.
Green Bay
- Barbara Dorff
- Veronica Corpus-Dax
- Lynn Gerlach
- Bill Galvin
- Craig Stevens
- Kathy Lefebvre
- Randy Scannell
- Chris Wery
- Brian Johnson
- Mark Steuer
- John S. VanderLeest
- Jesse Brunette
55.76 sq mi (144.42 km2)
45.48 sq mi (117.80 km2)
10.28 sq mi (26.62 km2)
581 ft (177 m)
107,395
2,299.38/sq mi (887.79/km2)
1,972.2/sq mi (761.5/km2)
320,050 (US: 157th)
UTC−5 (CDT)
55-31000[10]
1565801[11]
Green Bay is the principal city of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area, which covers Brown, Kewaunee, and Oconto counties.[14] Green Bay is the home city of the National Football League (NFL)'s Green Bay Packers.
Economy[edit]
Industry[edit]
Green Bay was known as the "Toilet Paper Capital of the World" because of the prevalence of the paper industry in the city.[58] Northern Paper Company, Fort Howard Paper Company, and Hoberg Paper Company were among Green Bay's first paper companies. Northern Paper Mills, founded in Green Bay in 1901, became the largest producer of toilet paper in the world as Northern Tissue in 1920.[59] Northern Paper Company offered the first splinter-free toilet paper in the early 1930s.[60] The presence of the paper industry helped Green Bay avoid the worst effects of the Great Depression.[61] Today, major paper producers include Georgia-Pacific[62] and Procter & Gamble,[63] with niche companies such as Steen-Macek Paper Company.[64]
Among the earliest packing companies in Green Bay were Acme Packing Company and Indian Packing Company, the namesake of the Green Bay Packers.[65] Today, major meatpackers in the city include JBS S.A. (formerly Packerland Packing)[66] and American Foods Group.
Other major employers include JBS USA, Green Bay Packaging, Walmart, Associated Banc-Corp, Belmark Inc, Green Bay Area Public School District, Expert Global Solutions, Procter & Gamble, Schreiber Foods, the Green Bay Packers, Nature's Way, HJ Martin and Son, and Nicolet National Bank.[68] Séura, a manufacturer of mirrors and flatscreen TVs, is another notable employer.[69]