Gotham, Wisconsin

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|map_caption = Location within Buena Vista, Richland county

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|area_total_sq_mi = 0.398

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Gotham (also Richland City) is a census-designated place, in the town of Buena Vista, in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States.{{cite gnis|1565683|Gotham, Wisconsin}} It is located at the intersection of Wisconsin Highway 60 and U.S. Route 14. It is just north of the Wisconsin River, northeast of Avoca and southeast of Richland Center. As of the 2020 census, its population was 189.{{cite web|title=U.S. Census website|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=4 April 2011}}

File:Gotham Wisconsin Sign Looking West WIS60.jpg

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History

The name Gotham came from Captain Myron Wheeler Gotham (1842-1902), who once resided in the village.[http://ci.richland-center.wi.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Gotham-House.pdf "Myron Wheeler Gotham House, Fulton Street, Village of Gotham"] Gotham died with his sons, Lucius and Myron, during a violent storm in the Great Lakes in 1902.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110611104912/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=3554&keyword=gotham Gotham:Origin of Name, Wisconsin Historical Society]

Demographics

{{US Census population

|2010= 191

|2020= 189

|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=January 1, 2023}}

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References

External links

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[https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=gotham&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=47.838189,82.265625&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=43.227569,-90.304184&spn=0.086555,0.160675&om=1&iwloc=addr Map of Gotham, Wisconsin]
[http://www.monticellowi.com/RichlandCo/TalesPage41.htm "Tales The Tombstone Tell Columns"] Republican Observer, 1956

Category:Census-designated places in Wisconsin

Category:Census-designated places in Richland County, Wisconsin

Gotham, Wisconsin

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