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Brown Deer is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 12,170 at the 2000 census. The village incorporated on January 20, 1955 from a portion of the former town of Granville.

Brown Deer is located at 43.172858, -87.977899.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 11.4 km² (4.4 mi²), all land.

There is much speculation as to how Brown Deer got its name. Legend has it that a deer jumped through a saloon door and broke up a card game in progress - hence, the name Brown Deer! Local families give their versions, also. Included among them are the following: When the Schulenburg home was being built in 1887, a brown deer stuck its head in the window; Jack Kihnau's father was building a bard when a brown deer looked in through the window; and John Ehlers put a sign on Schweitzer's Saloon that said, "Braun Hirsch - Brown Deer." However, the name Brown Deer had been established in the area long before these happenings occurred. (Anson Buttles' great grandfather's correspondence in 1873 mentions his granddaughter Kate Buttles teaching school at "White Deer," and she actually was teaching in the first log schoolhouse in the Brown Deer area.

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