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Town in Bayfield County

Town of Cable

Population
853
County
Bayfield County
Location
46.202, -91.305

Cable is a town (an active minor civil division) in southern Bayfield County, in far northern Wisconsin, sitting on U.S. Highway 63 in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. Its 2020 Census population was about 853. The town is governed by an elected town board (chairman Jamie Holly, clerk/treasurer Bobbi McCauley) from a town hall at 43395 Randysek Road, and children attend the Drummond Area School District. Cable is nationally known as a four-season trail town: it anchors the north end of the American Birkebeiner cross-country ski trail (Cable to Hayward), the CAMBA mountain-bike network, and the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival, and is home to the Cable Natural History Museum, the Forest Lodge Library, and the fiber provider Norvado.

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