Biohazard Cleanup Near Papermill Estates Kimberly, WI

Kimberly is a village in Outagamie County on the Fox River, about 25 miles southwest of Green Bay in the heart of Wisconsin's 'Paper Valley.'

The village was originally known as The Cedars, after the Treaty of the Cedars, and was renamed in 1889 for John A. Kimberly, a co-founder of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation.

Kimberly-Clark built its Kimberly mill in 1889, starting with wrapping paper and adding newsprint machines in 1891; the mill became the village's lifeblood for more than a century.

Kimberly's population was 7,320 at the 2020 census, up from 6,468 in 2010, per U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts.

At the 2010 census, Kimberly's 6,468 residents lived in 2,739 households.

The Kimberly mill produced the glossy coated paper used in magazines and brochures, and its two giant paper machines were nicknamed 'Sweet Lorraine' and 'Gingerbelle' after the wives of former plant owners.

After a century of papermaking, NewPage Corporation shut down the Kimberly mill in 2008, eliminating roughly 600 jobs in a village of about 6,300 people.

Kimberly High School's teams are the Papermakers — its mascot is the Papermaker wasp — and the school has won 35 WIAA state championship titles.

John A. Kimberly co-founded Kimberly-Clark in Neenah in 1872 with $7,500 contributions from each of four partners; the company grew into the maker of Kleenex, Cottonelle, and Huggies.

The village covers about 2.4 square miles along the Fox River in the Appleton metropolitan area.