Town in Vilas County
Town of Manitowish Waters
- Population
- 624
- County
- Vilas County
- Location
- 46.120, -89.868
Manitowish Waters is a small unincorporated town (a minor civil division) in northwestern Vilas County, Wisconsin, in the heart of the Greater Northwoods. It is governed by an elected town board (a town chairman plus two supervisors) and a clerk/treasurer, from a town hall on U.S. Highway 51, and its identity is built almost entirely on tourism and its chain of connected lakes marketed as the 'Legendary 10 Lake Chain.' The 2020 Census counted roughly 629 year-round residents, a number that multiplies seasonally, and the local economy runs on lakeside resorts, a cluster of multi-generation cranberry marshes, and outdoor recreation. Primary town, county, school-district, and Wisconsin DNR sources anchor most facts here; population and income figures could not be pulled directly from census.gov (the pages blocked automated retrieval) and are flagged accordingly.
What the records show
- Population: 624 (2020 census), 636 (latest official estimate) via doa.wi.gov
- Area: 28.785 sq mi land, 7.051 sq mi water, at 46.119711, -89.867713 via www2.census.gov
- Vilas County holds 570 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Named lakes nearest this town: Little Star Lake, Stepping Stone Lake Number 1, Stepping Stone Lake Number 2, Three Stepping Stones Lakes, McCabe Lake, Stepping Stone Lake Number 3, McKinney Lake, Rest Lake, Chub Lake, Manitowish Lake, Rest, Stone, Spider, Mud Lakes, Vance Lake, Stone Lake, Dead Pike Lake and 24 more via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Name: Town of Manitowish Waters via mwtown.gov
- Type: Town via vilascountywi.gov
- County: Vilas County, Wisconsin via mwtown.gov
- Coords: 46.1164 N, 89.8503 W via en.wikipedia.org
Local government
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