De Pere is a city in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 25,410 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Green Ba…De Pere is a city in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 25,410 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Green Bay metropolitan area. When the first European, Jean Nicolet, visited the place in 1634–35, De Pere was the site of a polyglot settlement of several thousand attracted by the fishing at the first rapids of the Fox River. In 1671, French Jesuit explorer Père Claude-Jean Allouez founded the St. Francis Xavier Mission at the last set of rapids on the Fox River before it enters The Bay of Green Bay. The site was known as Rapides Des Pères which became modern day De Pere.
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