Town in Oneida County
Pelican
- Population
- 2,809
- County
- Oneida County
- Location
- 45.593, -89.338
The Town of Pelican is a civil town (unincorporated minor civil division) in the southern part of Oneida County in Wisconsin's Northwoods, wrapping the east and south sides of the city of Rhinelander along the shared US 8 / State Highway 47 corridor. Established in 1882, it had a 2020 Census population of 2,809, and Wisconsin's official January 1, 2025 estimate is 2,831. It is a lake-rich, forest-and-residential town governed by an elected town board (Chairman Nick Scholtes plus two supervisors), lies wholly within the School District of Rhinelander (home to Pelican Elementary School), and is defined by more than a dozen lakes and the US 8 traffic artery. Identity, population, officials, highways, and school facts here bind to primary state (DOA), Census Gazetteer, WisDOT, the town's own site, and the district's own site; ACS income and age figures and lake acreages remain flagged where only secondary sources were reachable.
What the records show
- Population: 2809 (2020 census), 2831 (latest official estimate) via doa.wi.gov
- Area: 50.294 sq mi land, 3.562 sq mi water, at 45.593429, -89.338477 via www2.census.gov
- Oneida County holds 441 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Named lakes nearest this town: George Lake, Perch Lake, Midget Lake, Clear Lake, Long Lake, Bullhead Lake, Lake Thompson, Cuenin Lake, Hixon Lake, De Marce Lake, Fish Lake via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- 2020: 2809 via doa.wi.gov
- Est 2025: 2831 via doa.wi.gov
- Votingage: 2321 via doa.wi.gov
- Form: town board (chair + 2 supervisors) via townofpelican.com
Local government
In memory, from Pelican
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