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.
What the records show
- Population: 853 (2020 census), 867 (latest official estimate) via doa.wi.gov
- Area: 69.172 sq mi land, 2.061 sq mi water, at 46.201642, -91.305403 via www2.census.gov
- Bayfield County holds 337 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Named lakes nearest this town: Cable Lake, Wiley Lake, Lerche Lake, West Lake, Perry Lake, Price Lake, Henry Lake, Porter Lakes, Rosa Lake, Little Rosa Lake, Ole Lake, Jo Ann Lake, Motyka Lake, Picture Lake and 12 more via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Name: Town of Cable via www2.census.gov
- Type: town (active MCD) via www2.census.gov
- County: Bayfield County via bayfieldcounty.wi.gov
- Coords: 46.201642, -91.305403 via www2.census.gov
Local government
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