🏛️ What’s a Municipality?
Quick reality check: Every inch of Wisconsin is inside a town, village, or city—and sometimes all three layers overlap with districts and utilities. It’s like governmental nesting dolls, but with more paperwork.
These are Wisconsin’s three tiers of municipalities. If you can spot a street sign, you can find a government board behind it.
Cities
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Bigger population, full home‑rule powers, run by a mayor & common council.
Think: “We can ban leaf blowers if we want to.”
Villages
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Mid‑sized hubs with stores, neighborhoods, and a village president & board of trustees.
The Goldilocks of government—not too big, not too small.
Towns
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Everything not incorporated; think rural roads, unplatted subdivisions, and a town chair & supervisors.
Powers carefully rationed by the state.