Community in Sawyer County
New Post
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- Sawyer County
New Post is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hunter, Sawyer County, in northwestern Wisconsin, sitting on the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation along the shore of the Chippewa Flowage roughly 15 miles east of Hayward. It is not an incorporated municipality: it has no independent government, and civic authority runs through the Town of Hunter town board and the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. New Post exists because of a forced relocation: after the Winter Dam closed in 1923 and created the Chippewa Flowage, it flooded the old Ojibwe village of Post (Pahquahwong), and residents rebuilt on higher ground at the site now called New Post. Its 2020 Census population was reported as 302, and its identity is tribal, historical, and tied to the water: the flowage, wild rice, and the annual Honor the Earth powwow.
What the records show
- Sawyer County holds 247 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Name: New Post CDP via www2.census.gov
- Type: census-designated place (unincorporated) via www2.census.gov
- County: Sawyer County via www2.census.gov
- Town: Town of Hunter via en.wikipedia.org
- Reservation: Lac Courte Oreilles reservation via en.wikipedia.org
- Coords: 45.902783, -91.207142 via www2.census.gov
- Land area: 20.562 via www2.census.gov
Local government
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