The Greater Northwoods

Town in Oneida County

Nokomis

Population
1,372
County
Oneida County
Location
45.606, -89.732

The Town of Nokomis is a civil town (unincorporated minor civil division) in southern Oneida County, Wisconsin, just north and west of the city of Tomahawk and defined by its namesake Lake Nokomis on the Tomahawk River flowage system. Its 2020 Census population was 1,372 and Wisconsin's official January 1, 2025 estimate is 1,421. It is a small, lake- and forest-rich, tourism- and residential-oriented community governed by an elected town chair (Nate Gaedtke) and two supervisors, and it lies wholly within the Tomahawk School District. Identity, geography, population, officials, the school-district service area, and lake data here bind to primary state (DOA), Census Gazetteer, the town's own .gov site, the district's own site, and Wisconsin DNR; ACS income and age figures and several secondary items (enrollment count, highways, hospital, broadband) remain flagged where no primary source was reachable.

The record

73 records name Nokomis

  • 60 news
  • 13 obituaries

Showing the 40 most recent of 73. Every one is held, cited, and searchable in the archive.

What the records show

36 of 47 independently verified

Authoritative data

Population and demographics

Government and civic

Schools

Economy and employers

  • Businesses: resorts, taverns, supper clubs, trades, logging via nokomiswi.gov
  • Tourism: tourism / lakes recreation / residential unverified via nokomiswi.gov We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
  • Employer note: no dominant in-town employer (Tomahawk is the job center) unverified via nokomiswi.gov We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.

Institutions and anchors

  • Cemetery: Nokomis town cemetery via nokomiswi.gov
  • Post office: Tomahawk post office (54487) via nokomiswi.gov
  • Hospital: Tomahawk (nearest hub); facility unconfirmed unverified via nokomiswi.gov We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.

Business and commerce

  • Identity: no separate downtown (dispersed lakeside businesses) unverified via nokomiswi.gov We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.

Media

  • Tomahawk leader: Tomahawk Leader secondary source via tomahawkleader.com Relayed by a secondary source. The primary record is cited but was not independently re-read.
  • Wjjq: WJJQ radio secondary source via wjjq.com Relayed by a secondary source. The primary record is cited but was not independently re-read.
  • Wxpr: WXPR secondary source via wxpr.org Relayed by a secondary source. The primary record is cited but was not independently re-read.

Recreation and natural assets

Events and seasonal rhythm

Infrastructure and access

  • Airport: Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport (KRHI) secondary source via en.wikipedia.org Relayed by a secondary source. The primary record is cited but was not independently re-read.
  • Highways: county/town roads (state highway unconfirmed) unverified via en.wikipedia.org We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
  • Hub distance: Tomahawk (adjacent); Rhinelander ~20-25 mi N unverified via nokomiswi.gov We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.

Local government

Every figure here traces to a primary public record, linked at the fact. We gather and cite; we do not author. See something off? Tell us.

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