Ozaukee County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2000 Census, Ozaukee County had the 2nd lowest poverty rate of any county in the United States, at 2.6%. In terms of per capita income, it is the 25th wealthiest county in the country. Bolstered by low crime rates and school districts with high graduation rates, Forbes magazine ranked Ozaukee County #2 on its list of "America's Best Places To Raise A Family" in June, 2008. Ozaukee County was once part of neighboring Washington County to the west. Its name comes from the Ojibwe name for the Sacs. Ozaukee County is the smallest land area county in the State of Wisconsin, covering 235 square miles of land area. Lion's Den Gorge Nature Preserve is a large bluffland and wetland county protected area on the shore of Lake Michigan. Ozaukee County has a harbor in Port Washington on Lake Michigan, though not in the lakeside communities of Mequon or Grafton due to high bluffs along the lakeshore. We visited Ozaukee County Wisconsin in July of 2019.