Wisconsin
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | 2762 | 1 | ||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1900 | 2526 | 1 | ||||||
| 1910 | 3212 | 0 | ||||||
| 1920 | 3626 | 0 | ||||||
| 1930 | 4114 | 0 | ||||||
| 1940 | 4414 | 1 | ||||||
| 1950 | 4780 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | 5856 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 7479 | 0 | ||||||
| 1980 | 8385 | 1 | ||||||
| 1990 | 8855 | 1 | ||||||
| 2000 | 9936 | 37 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 | 10464 | 144 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
An informant said in an email, “According to my grandfather, now deceased, Burlington, WI, was indeed a Sundown Town, although there was no written law that he had been aware of. He use to tell stories of how the blacks needed to be out of town by dark or they were “escorted” to the outskirts of town. Now I know of a number of black families living within the city limits. In the late seventies, when I was in high school, there were no black families living in the city and the only black children attending school there were adopted.”