Town in Bayfield County
Town of Iron River
- Population
- 1,240
- County
- Bayfield County
- Location
- 46.546, -91.364
The Town of Iron River is an unincorporated town in southwestern Bayfield County, Wisconsin, straddling U.S. Highway 2 in the Chequamegon National Forest country of the Greater Northwoods. Its 2020 census population was 1,240 (up from 1,123 in 2010), and the surrounding unincorporated village of Iron River serves as the commercial hub for a four-season outdoor-recreation economy built on 96 lakes, trout streams, ATV and hiking trails, the Iron River National Fish Hatchery, and White Winter Winery. The town is governed by an elected town board (chairperson Richard Forsythe) with a clerk-treasurer, is served by the School District of Maple, and centers its civic life on the Evelyn Goldberg Briggs Memorial Library and the Iron River Lions Blueberry Festival, held the fourth weekend of July.
What the records show
- Population: 1240 (2020 census), 1224 (latest official estimate) via doa.wi.gov
- Area: 32.08 sq mi land, 3.425 sq mi water, at 46.545791, -91.364349 via www2.census.gov
- Bayfield County holds 337 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Named lakes nearest this town: Pine Lake, Pike Lake, Peterson Lake, Lost Lake, Perch Lake, Lake Millicent, Buskey Bay, Half Moon Lake, Angus Lake, Cat Lake, Hart Lake, Mullenhoff Lake, Hicks Lake, McCarry Lake and 33 more via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Name: Town of Iron River via bayfieldcounty.wi.gov
- County: Bayfield County via en.wikipedia.org
- Status: town (unincorporated) via en.wikipedia.org
- Coordinates: 46.5503 N, 91.3839 W via en.wikipedia.org
Local government
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