This crossroads was originally called Storyville, after one Augustus Story who settled in the area about 1837.

It is the site of a park-and-ride lot used by Badger Bus, the Milwaukee County Transit System, and others.

[6] The former site of the settlement is now taken up by shopping centers, office buildings, hotels, apartments, and their associated parking lots.

[7][8] Although obscure outside metro Milwaukee, Goerke's Corners had its moment of pop culture fame.

In the 1949 movie It's a Great Feeling, Hollywood hopeful Judy Adams (Doris Day) proudly states that she grew up there.