The largest Belgian-American settlement in the United States[citation needed] is located in portions of Brown, Kewaunee, and Door counties in Wisconsin, adjacent to the waters of Green Bay.

A variety of elements attests to the Belgian-American presence: place names (Brussels, Namur, Rosiere, Luxemburg), the Walloon language, surnames, foods (booyah, trippe, and jutt), the Kermis harvest festival, and especially architecture.

Many of the original wooden structures of the Belgian Americans were destroyed in a firestorm that swept across southern Door County in October 1871.

More common are 1880s red brick houses, distinguished by modest size and gable-end, bull's-eye windows.

Some houses have detached summer kitchens with bake ovens appended to the rear.

And the Belgians, many of them devout Catholics, also erected small roadside votive chapels like those in their homeland.

[4] Brussels, Wisconsin is the third-most Belgian-American community in the United States, by proportion of residents.

[5][6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.2 square miles (93.6 km2), all of it land.

[14] The ancestry was 31.6% German, 4.5% Irish, 4.1% Polish, 3.9% Czech, 3.6% Italian, 3.4% French, 1.7% Norwegian, and 1.5% English.