Performance venues in Green Bay include Lambeau Field, Resch Center, Weidner Center, Meyer Theatre, and The Tarlton Theatre. The Art Garage and the Automotive Gallery are art galleries in the downtown area. Museums in the city include the Neville Public Museum and the Hazelwood Historic House Museum.

With the fort, the community grew rapidly. Belgian farmers and Norwegian skilled laborers arrived in the 1850s. In the 1870s, when the growth of railroads displaced steamboats as the main form of transportation to and from Green Bay, the city became a center of iron smelting, lumber milling, and paper products.

The population was 2,035 at the 2010 census. The town is located several miles northeast of the city of Green Bay. The unincorporated community of Champion is located in the town, and the unincorporated communities of Dyckesville and New Franken are located partially in the town.

Green Bay was known as the "Toilet Paper Capital of the World" because of the prevalence of the paper industry in the city. Northern Paper Company, Fort Howard Paper Company, and Hoberg Paper Company were among Green Bay's first paper companies.