City in Price County
Phillips
- Population
- 1,533
- County
- Price County
- Location
- 45.694, -90.401
Phillips is an incorporated city and the county seat of Price County in Wisconsin's Northwoods, with a 2020 Census population of 1,533 across roughly 2.8 square miles of land. Platted in 1876 as a Wisconsin Central Railway logging town and named for railway manager Elijah B. Phillips, it runs a mayor-council government (Mayor Charles J. Peterson and Clerk-Treasurer Shelby Kosmer) and anchors a manufacturing-heavy Price County economy that includes Phillips-Medisize, BW Papersystems, and Phillips Plating alongside healthcare and tourism. The city is best known regionally for Fred Smith's Wisconsin Concrete Park, the Phillips Chain of Lakes, and access to hundreds of miles of snowmobile, ATV, and silent-sports trails across the surrounding public forest.
What the records show
- Population: 1533 (2020 census), 1473 (latest official estimate) via doa.wi.gov
- Area: 2.659 sq mi land, 0.709 sq mi water, at 45.694035, -90.40142 via www2.census.gov
- Price County holds 152 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Named lakes nearest this town: Elk Lake, Elk, Duroy, Long Lakes and Wilson Flowage, Duroy Lake, Pot Lake, Deer Lake, Donavan Lake, Long Lake, Cranberry Lake via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Name: City of Phillips via cityofphillips.com
- Type: city (county seat) via en.wikipedia.org
- County: Price County via co.price.wi.us
- Coordinates: 45.69167 N, 90.40194 W via en.wikipedia.org
Local government
In memory, from Phillips
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