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Hortonville, Wisconsin
Summary
Hortonville is a village in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,711 at the 2010 census.
Hortonville is located in the Fox Cities region and the Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, WI CSA, the third largest metropolitan area in Wisconsin.
In 1848, a man by the name of Alonzo Horton purchased 1,500 acres from the governor of Wisconsin, now known as the Town of Hortonia and the Village of Hortonville, for only 70 cents per acre. The first thing Horton did was build a cabin; by damming the Black Otter Creek, which created the Black Otter Lake. After laying out a plat for the community by buying land and platting it off in 1849, Horton was swayed westward by the California Gold Rush. He later developed the city of San Diego, California.
On August 11, 1894, the settlement was incorporated as the Village of Hortonville. At that time, it had one of the first match light factories in the world.
2 Feature films were said to take place in Hortonville, WI. 1944 “Janie” and 1947 “Janie gets married”.
During World War II, a German POW camp was established in Hortonville along County Hwy MM on the north side of the village.
On March 18, 1974, the teachers at the Hortonville Community School went on strike, an event that received national news coverage.
In 1981, the Hortonville Community Hall, now known as the Hortonville Opera House, was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Hortonville is located at (44.335196, -88.638847).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which, of it is land and is water.
The community is located on the shores of the Black Otter Lake. It is drained by Black Otter Creek, which flows into the Wolf River just north of the village. The total watershed for the lake is estimated to be .
The Black Otter is the only public access lake in Outagamie County. Because of this, it receives substantial recreational use, primarily by anglers, throughout the year. Fish species in the lake include: bluegill, largemouth bass, black crappie, yellow perch, northern pike and catfish.
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