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Menomonee Falls is a village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, about 15 miles northwest of Milwaukee, and part of the Greater Milwaukee area.

With 38,527 residents in the 2020 census, Menomonee Falls is the most populous village in Wisconsin and the fourth-largest community in Waukesha County.

Menomonee Falls is named for the Menomonee River, which cuts diagonally through the village and is itself named for the Menominee people who originally inhabited the area, along with the Chippewa.

The Town of Menomonee was created in December 1839, and a section of it incorporated as the Village of Menomonee Falls in 1892, electing its first village board and forming its first fire department in 1894.

Menomonee Falls' early industry ran on river power, with sawmills and lime kilns along the Menomonee River, and its Wisconsin Sugar Factory once employed as many as 500 laborers and produced up to 15 million pounds of sugar annually.

In 1958, Menomonee Falls annexed the remainder of the Town of Menomonee, jumping overnight from about 2 square miles to 32 square miles and from about 4,500 to 12,000 residents.

Menomonee Falls now covers about 33 square miles and has about 18,400 housing units, roughly 72% of them owner-occupied, according to the village's 2024 economic profile.

Menomonee Falls is the headquarters of Kohl's, the Fortune 500 department store retailer.

Menomonee Falls preserves its past at Old Falls Village Historical Park and Museum, whose centerpiece, the Miller-Davidson House built in 1858, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Menomonee Falls maintains about 2,500 acres of parks and protected wilderness, including the roughly 830-acre Tamarack Swamp.