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Wisconsin County Map Maker

A blank Wisconsin county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 72 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Wisconsin map you can embed anywhere.

Wisconsin 空白地图,免费下载

全部 72 个counties,线条干净的轮廓图。可打印、可填色、可放进文档——无需注册,也无需署名。

Wisconsin 空白轮廓地图,包含全部counties

任何用途均可免费使用,包括商用与课堂。由编辑器所用的同一套边界数据生成。

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Wisconsin 地图能看出什么

Wisconsin divides into 72 counties, and almost every figure the state publishes — unemployment, dairy production, turnout, school enrolment, health outcomes — is released at that level. It is a good geography to map: the counties are similar enough in size that no single one swallows the picture, and the state's real internal divisions show up clearly at county resolution. The Milwaukee and Madison metros, the Fox Valley corridor, the dairy counties of the west and the sparse forested north each read as their own region on a county map, and none of them is visible in a single statewide number.

Wisconsin 的三种画法

数值是比率时给区域填色,是计数时用大小不同的标记。把这两者用反,是数据地图最常见的误导方式。

分级填色

为每个区域填色

颜色深浅代表数值。适合比率、占比和人均指标——这些数字已经消除了面积和人口规模的影响。

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每个区域一个按值缩放的标记

每个区域放一个符号,按数值缩放。适合计数与总量;这类数字若用填色,画出来的只会是人口分布图。

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按比例缩放的圆

轮廓之上按数值缩放的圆。当少数区域占绝对多数、小区域在填色中会被淹没时,效果最好。

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什么时候该画 Wisconsin 地图

  • Your data is reported by Wisconsin county

    DHS health indicators, DWD labour figures, DPI school data, DATCP agricultural statistics and Wisconsin Elections Commission returns are all published by county.

  • You are showing a rate or a share

    Unemployment rate, vaccination share, share of votes, median household income. Rates are already adjusted for population, which is what shading a region needs.

  • You want to show a north–south or urban–rural split

    Wisconsin's clearest patterns are geographic. A county map makes the divide between the metro southeast and the northern counties an argument the reader can see rather than a claim they have to accept.

  • You need a blank map to print or fill in

    Classroom exercises, planning workshops, colour-by-hand sessions. The free outline above prints cleanly at any size.

什么时候不该画 Wisconsin 地图

  • You are mapping totals rather than rates

    Shade by a raw count and Milwaukee County wins every time — it holds roughly a sixth of the state's population in one of its smaller shapes. Use symbols or bubbles sized by the count instead.

  • Your unit is a city or a school district

    Wisconsin's municipalities and school districts cross county lines freely. Mapping them onto counties will misplace the thing you are describing.

  • Only a few counties have data

    A map with sixty grey shapes and twelve coloured ones is a worse bar chart. If coverage is patchy, rank the counties you do have.

  • The comparison is with other states

    If the point is how Wisconsin sits against its neighbours, use the US states map or the full US county map so the reader can see across the border.

如何制作 Wisconsin 地图

从表格到发布上线,一步一步来。

01

Download the blank map, or start from the template

The free outline above is a plain SVG of all 72 counties — print it, or drop it into a document. To build with data, open the PlotSet Wisconsin (counties) template, which comes with sample data already bound.

02

Prepare a county column and a value column

One row per county: the county name or its five-digit FIPS code in the first column, your number in the second. FIPS codes for Wisconsin all begin 55.

03

Upload or connect your data

Import a CSV or Excel file, paste from a spreadsheet, or connect a Google Sheet so the map can be refreshed when the source updates.

04

Pick the style that fits the measure

Shade the counties for a rate, or switch to symbols or bubbles for a count. Same geography, same data, different encoding.

05

Choose a colour scale on purpose

Sequential for a low-to-high measure, diverging only when a real midpoint exists — the state average, zero change, a 50 per cent line. Four to six steps read more precisely than a smooth gradient.

06

Publish, embed or export

Publish for a live interactive map with a tooltip on every county, or export a PNG, SVG or PDF for a report or a deck.

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让 Wisconsin 数据正确匹配

地点列应该长什么样,以及去哪里找现成能对上的数据。

All 72 counties, spelled as the state spells them

Watch the ones that trip up a join: Fond du Lac, Eau Claire, La Crosse, St. Croix, Green and Green Lake, Marinette and Menominee. Matching on FIPS avoids every one of these.

Wisconsin FIPS codes start at 55

55001 is Adams, 55141 is Wood. Store the column as text so the codes keep their shape, and remember the county part is odd-numbered, not sequential.

Milwaukee County is not Milwaukee

The city sits inside the county along with eighteen other municipalities. If your figure is city-level, it does not belong on a county map.

Where to get Wisconsin county data

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the Department of Workforce Development, the Department of Public Instruction and the Wisconsin Elections Commission all publish county tables, as does the Census Bureau's ACS.

Wisconsin 地图上的常见错误

Shading counts instead of rates

It produces a population map every time. Anything that grows simply because more people live there should be a sized symbol, not a shade.

Joining on names without checking spelling

Fond du Lac and Fond Du Lac are different strings, and a silent mismatch leaves a blank county rather than an error. Join on FIPS where you can.

Ignoring the population imbalance

Milwaukee and Dane counties hold a quarter of the state between them in two small shapes, while the largest counties by area are in the sparsely populated north. Note it in the caption.

Using a rainbow colour scale

A sequence of hues has no natural order, so readers cannot tell high from low without checking the legend on every county. Use one hue, light to dark.

Wisconsin 地图常见问题

Yes. The outline above is a free SVG of all 72 Wisconsin counties — right-click to save it, print it, or drop it into a worksheet or document. No account needed.

把你的数据放到 Wisconsin 地图上

上传表格,几分钟内发布一张交互式地图——免费,无需信用卡。