Highway 41: End-to-end Streetview trek -- Neenah Neenah

 

We're still on Highway 41 in the Fox River Valley region of Wisconsin, but in this section the trek will go on a short side trip to explore some local hydrography.

Crossing over Winneconne Avenue

Now, leaving Highway 41 and taking Winneconne Avenue east, it becomes Commercial Street, which crosses the Fox River. This is the same Fox River that went into Lake Winnebago at Oshkosh. As noted back then, the Upper Fox River flows into the lake, and the Lower Fox River flows out of the lake (after that, it's just called the Fox River). So here's the river under Commercial Street.

Here's where the river actually flows out of the lake, at Kimberly Point. This is the Neenah Channel; it also flows out of the lake at the Menasha Channel just north. We'll skip that.

If Kimberly sounds familiar, that's because this is the home of the Kimberly-Clark corporation, which makes Scott Tissue and Kleenex, among many other paper products. Neenah is also the location of the Neenah Foundry, which makes lots of iron things, notably manhole and storm sewer covers. Right here on Byrd Avenue (about 800 meters from Highway 41), if you do a 360 around the Streetview, you can see both of them.



Now the trek heads north again.