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Little Chute, Wisconsin, is a village in Outagamie County along I-41 as well as state highway 96 just east of and adjacent to
Appleton. (Highway 441 also passes through the western end of town.) Kimberly and Combined Locks lie to the south, and
Kaukauna lies to the east. Little Chute has about 12,000 residents.
The French first called the site La Petite Chute, meaning "The Little Fall". I've always wondered why Little Chute came to be a town (village) before Grand Chute. You'd think a bigger fall(s) would be better. That said, I'm not sure where (on the Fox River?) the large falls would be located. Apparently the township was much larger originally, so the falls could be somewhere between Appleton and Green Bay. In the 1980s, Grand Chute tried to become a village, but they were denied.
