Town in Vilas County
Town of Boulder Junction
- Population
- 1,057
- County
- Vilas County
- Location
- 46.094, -89.697
Boulder Junction is a town (unincorporated civil town) in northern Vilas County, Wisconsin, sitting inside the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest. It brands itself the trademarked Musky Capital of the World and functions as a small, tourism-driven Northwoods community surrounded by roughly 194 to 200 lakes, hundreds of miles of trails, and the 52-mile Heart of Vilas County paved bike trail. Its 2020 census population was 1,057 permanent residents, a number that swells seasonally with vacationers. Governance is by a three-member town board (chair plus two supervisors) with a town clerk/treasurer, and children attend North Lakeland School locally and Lakeland Union High School in Minocqua.
What the records show
- Population: 1057 (2020 census), 1072 (latest official estimate) via doa.wi.gov
- Area: 78.656 sq mi land, 20.045 sq mi water, at 46.093801, -89.696728 via www2.census.gov
- Vilas County holds 570 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Named lakes nearest this town: Street Lake, Edith Lake, Nichols Lake, Rudolph Lake, Jag Lake, Wool Lake, Day Lake, Whitney Lake, Upper Gresham Lake, Boulder Lake, Little Rice Lake, Big Crooked Lake, Maple Lake, Diamond Lake and 13 more via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Form: Town board (chair + 2 supervisors) via townofboulderjunction.org
- Chair: Dennis Reuss via townofboulderjunction.org
- Supervisors: Laura Bertch; Dylan Schutt via townofboulderjunction.org
- Clerk: Daniel Driscoll via townofboulderjunction.org
Local government
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