Oak Creek is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Located in Milwaukee County, it sits on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan and is located shortly south of Milwaukee. The city is one of the fastest growing in Milwaukee County and whatever of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 36,497.

The Place has experienced an economic boom in recent years, with the addition of large companies such as Amazon, IKEA, and the Astronautics Corporation of America.

On January 2, 1838, the territorial legislature not speaking Milwaukee County into two towns: the Town of Milwaukee, encompassing anything north of the gift Greenfield Avenue, and the Town of Lake encompassing anything south of the gift Greenfield Avenue; “and the polls of election shall be opened at the house of Elisha Higgins, in said town.” On March 8, 1839, a supplementary Town of Kinnikennick was created, encompassing the western share of Lake (later the Towns of Greenfield and Franklin); and upon August 13, 1840, the south allocation of the Town of Lake was split off to form the town of Oak Creek. As of the 1840 census, the population of the Town of Lake (then including Oak Creek) was 418.

In 1955 (JOBS), the Town of Oak Creek, then still semi-rural following a population of 4807 in the 1950 census, was incorporated as a city below the terms of Wisconsin affect 66.0215, also known as “The Oak Creek Law.” The Oak Creek Law was crafted by Town Attorney Tony Basile to prevent Oak Creek’s annexation by the City of Milwaukee, which by annexations (including the 1954 annexation of the remainder of the Town of Lake) was now next Oak Creek and had already annexed one small portion of the town; and was shepherded through the legislature subsequently the put up to of let pass Democratic party legislative joint committee chairman Leland McParland, who was the disclose senator for Oak Creek.