Community in Ashland County
Clam Lake
- County
- Ashland County
Clam Lake is a tiny unincorporated community and Census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Gordon, Ashland County, in far northern Wisconsin, sitting on Wisconsin Highway 77 near County Highway GG entirely inside the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. Its 2020 CDP population was about 36. The community has no municipal government of its own; it is governed by the Town of Gordon (chair Douglas B. Thorp, clerk Vickie Stencil) with the town seat at Glidden, and children are served by the Chequamegon School District. Clam Lake is best known as the Elk Capital of Wisconsin, the 1995 elk-reintroduction release site, and as a four-season base camp for national-forest recreation: Day Lake campground, snowmobile and ATV trails, hunting, and fishing, anchored by the annual Clam Lake Elk Fest each September.
What the records show
- Ashland County holds 88 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Name: Clam Lake via www2.census.gov
- Type: unincorporated community / CDP via www2.census.gov
- Town: Town of Gordon via ashlandcountywi.gov
- County: Ashland County via www2.census.gov
- Coords: 46.154438, -90.905809 via www2.census.gov
- Land area: 0.403 via www2.census.gov
- Water area: 0.266 via www2.census.gov
In memory, from Clam Lake
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