Editing Somers, Wisconsin

{{short description|City in Kenosha County, Wisconsin}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}}
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| official_name                   = Somers, Wisconsin
| settlement_type                 = [[Village]]
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| subdivision_name2               = [[Kenosha County, Wisconsin|Kenosha]]

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| population_as_of                = [[2020 United States Census|2020]]
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| population_total                = 8402
| population_density_km2          = 127.83
| population_density_sq_mi        = 331.09

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| postal_code_type                = [[ZIP Code]]
| postal_code                     = 53171<ref name="USPS"/>
| area_code                       = [[Area code 262|262]]
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'''Somers''' is a [[village (Wisconsin)|village]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brines|first1=Jon|title=Somers Village Board gets off to rocky start|url=http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/somers-village-board-gets-off-to-rocky-start/article_278e1eed-8bbf-58bb-885d-4c7c2a516727.html|access-date=June 15, 2017|date=May 24, 2015}}</ref> in [[Kenosha County, Wisconsin|Kenosha County]], [[Wisconsin]], United States. The population was 8,402 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]]. Somers has a [[post office]] with [[ZIP Code|ZIP code]] 53171.<ref name="USPS">{{cite web|url=http://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action|title=USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code|access-date=June 25, 2017|author=United States Postal Service}}</ref> The former unincorporated communities of Berryville, Central Park, and Kellogg's Corners are located in the village.

The village of Somers was incorporated on April 24, 2015, following a local election that favored incorporation.<ref>{{cite web|title=Incorporation|url=http://www.somers.org/?q=node/112#.WU_famgrK0w|publisher=Village and Town of Somers|access-date=June 25, 2017}}</ref> While the village originally only included the eastern half of the town's former boundaries, it now includes almost all of the original town; [[Somers (town), Wisconsin|the remainder]] is still a town and is slated to become part of [[Kenosha, Wisconsin|Kenosha]] by 2035.<ref>{{cite map|title=Proposed Village Incorporation|url=http://www.somers.org/sites/default/files/2015%20Uploads/PROPOSED%20VILLAGE%20MAP%202-23-15.pdf|publisher=Town of Somers|date=February 23, 2015|format=PDF|access-date=June 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite map|title=Somers Town & Village Boundaries|url=http://www.somers.org/sites/default/files/SomersNewVilTownMap2016_0.pdf|publisher=Village and Town of Somers|format=PDF|access-date=June 25, 2017}}</ref>

==History==
The community was originally named '''Pike''' on April 15, 1843, by an act of the Wisconsin territorial legislature,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160102132944/http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/1843/related/territory_acts/43act_p58_59.pdf Territory acts. Act 43] </ref> and became Somers in 1851.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170217210953/https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/1851/related/acts/213.pdf Territory acts. Act 213] </ref>

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the village has a total area of {{convert|25.274|mi2}}, of which {{convert|25.257|mi2}} are land and {{convert|0.017|mi2}} are water.<ref>{{cite web|title=2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files: County Subdivisions - Wisconsin|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2016_Gazetteer/2016_gaz_cousubs_55.txt|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=June 25, 2017}}</ref>

==Demographics==
Somers first appeared in the [[2020 U.S. Census]] after incorporation in 2015.<ref name=2020CensusP2/>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Somers village, Wisconsin– Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 2020<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Mountain Meadows CDP, Texas|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US1733851|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=}}</ref>
!% 2020
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|6,636
|78.98%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|462
|5.50%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|26
|0.31%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|237
|2.82%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|3
|0.04%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Other race]] alone (NH)
|33
|0.39%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed race or Multiracial]] (NH)
|277
|3.30%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|728
|8.66%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''8,402'''
|'''100.00%'''
|}

==Neighborhoods==
=== Berryville ===

Berryville is a residential and business community located in the eastern part of the village, at the intersection of Kenosha County Highway A (7th Street) and [[Highway 32 (Wisconsin)|Highway 32]] (Sheridan Road). The community was named for the proliferation of strawberry farms in the area.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA44|year=1908|page=44}}</ref> The Berryville School was a community fixture into the 1980s, when it was demolished for new housing. Adjacent to the school to the south was the Mid-City Outdoor Theatre (1948-1984), one of Wisconsin's first drive-in theatres.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wikenosh/placenames.htm|title=Kenosha Co. WI Placenames|accessdate=January 23, 2023}}</ref>

=== Central Park ===

Central Park is a residential and business community within the southeastern corner of the village. It is centered on the intersection of Sheridan Road ([[Highway 32 (Wisconsin)|Highway 32]]) and Twelfth Street (Kenosha County Highway E).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.co.kenosha.wi.us/DocumentCenter/View/2408|title=Town of Somers, Kenosha County, Wisconsin|accessdate=January 23, 2023}}</ref> The area once was the location of the namesake Central Park, a sprawling private recreational park, baseball field, and picnic grounds that was served by a stop of the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company (TMER&L) interurban line which had installed layover sidings for its rail cars waiting to reload and return picnickers to their homes. Central Park often hosted many annual company picnics including those of the [[Nash Motors]] Company of [[Kenosha, Wisconsin|Kenosha]]. The Central Park picnic grounds were later sold and renamed "Minkowski's Grove", which since has been subdivided and no longer exists for public usage.<ref name="auto">[http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wikenosh/placenames.htm Kenosha County Place Names]</ref>

=== Kellogg's Corners ===

Kellogg's Corners (often called Kellogg) is a residential and agricultural community in the northwestern corner of the village.<ref name="auto"/> It lies at the junction of [[Interstate 94 (Wisconsin)|Interstate 94]]/[[U.S. Route 41 in Wisconsin|U.S. Route 41]] and [[Highway 195 (Wisconsin)|Highway 195]] at the border with [[Racine County, Wisconsin|Racine County]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.co.kenosha.wi.us/DocumentCenter/View/2408|title=Town of Somers-Kenosha County, Wisconsin|accessdate=January 23, 2023}}</ref> Kellogg's Corners was first settled in 1837 by three Kellogg brothers - Seth, Chauncey, and Thaddeus.

By far, the most notable Kellogg's Corners landmark was the [[Greek Revival]] mid-19th century '''Kellogg's Corners School''', an early historic [[one-room school]] of frame construction that eventually became privately owned and was demolished by its owner in 1990. The school's rustic foundation remains to mark its location.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

==Education==
* [[Shoreland Lutheran High School]] is a private Christian high school of the [[Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod]] (WELS).<ref>{{Cite news|date=August 10, 1979|title='We prepare them for the next life|pages=9|work=Kenosha News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93604368/we-prepare-them-for-the-next-life/|access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref>

==Notable people==
*[[William H. Flett]], Wisconsin legislator<ref>'Wisconsin Blue Book 1911,' Biographical Sketch of William H. Flett, pg. 648</ref>
*[[Margaret Landon]], author of ''[[Anna and the King of Siam (book)|Anna and the King of Siam]]''
*[[Drue Leyton]], actress, writer, member of the French Resistance<ref>'Drue Leyton; Actress, Member of the French Resistance,' '''Los Angeles Times,''' February 11, 1997</ref> 
*[[Conrad Shearer]], Wisconsin legislator<ref>'Wisconsin Blue Book 1923,' Biographical Sketch of Conrad Shearer, pg. 625</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://somers.org Village and Town of Somers official website]

{{Kenosha County, Wisconsin}}
{{coord|42|38|25|N|87|54|37|W|type:city_region:US-WI|display=title}}
{{Geographic location|Center=Somers|Southwest=[[Woodworth, Wisconsin|Woodworth]]|South=[[Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin|Pleasant Prairie]]|Southeast=[[Kenosha]]|East=[[Elmwood Park, Wisconsin|Elmwood Park]]|North=[[Sturtevant, Wisconsin|Sturtevant]]}}
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[[Category:Villages in Kenosha County, Wisconsin]]
[[Category:Villages in Wisconsin]]