Town in Bayfield County
Town of Lincoln
- Population
- 2,659
- County
- Bayfield County
- Location
- 45.907, -89.247
The Town of Lincoln is a civil town (unincorporated minor civil division) in Vilas County in Wisconsin's Northwoods, wrapped around the city of Eagle River and served by that city's institutions. Its 2020 Census population was 2,659 and Wisconsin's official January 1, 2025 estimate is 2,687. It is a low-density, lake-rich, tourism-oriented community governed by an elected town chair and four supervisors with a combined clerk/treasurer, and its children attend the Northland Pines School District centered in Eagle River. Population and geography here are bound to primary state (DOA) and Census Gazetteer sources; income, median age, and several institution and recreation facts remain flagged where only secondary sources were reachable.
What the records show
- Population: 2659 (2020 census), 2687 (latest official estimate) via doa.wi.gov
- Area: 31.447 sq mi land, 4.936 sq mi water, at 45.90723, -89.246501 via www2.census.gov
- Bayfield County holds 337 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Named lakes nearest this town: Loon Lake, Taylor Lake, Gordon Lake, Birch Lake, Mud Minnow Lake, Catfish Lake, Dollar Lake, Mikinaak Lake, Spring Lake, Indian Lake, Voyageur Lake, Olson Lake, Lake Seventeen, Meta Lake and 2 more via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- 2020: 2659 via doa.wi.gov
- Est 2025: 2687 via doa.wi.gov
- Votingage 2020: 2194 via doa.wi.gov
- Form: town board (chair + 4 supervisors) via townoflincolnvilas.com
Local government
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