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Community in Vilas County

Sayner

Population
231
County
Vilas County

Sayner is an unincorporated census-designated place in the Town of Plum Lake, Vilas County, Wisconsin, sitting at the intersection of State Highway 155 and County N about 15 miles northwest of Eagle River. It is best known as the birthplace of the snowmobile: Carl Eliason built his first motor toboggan in a garage behind his Sayner general store in 1924 and patented it in 1927, and the original machine is on display at the Vilas Historical Museum in town. The CDP recorded a 2020 census population of 231, and it functions as a small lake-tourism and second-home community governed as part of the Town of Plum Lake, with children attending the Northland Pines School District in Eagle River.

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