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Unincorporated community in Sawyer County

Seeley

County
Sawyer County

Seeley is a small unincorporated community in the Town of Lenroot, Sawyer County, in northwestern Wisconsin, sitting at the intersection of US Highway 63 and County Road OO about 10 miles north of Hayward. It has no municipal government of its own and is governed by the Town of Lenroot (Chairman Gordon Christians, Clerk Robert Ubbelohde), whose town hall is on US-63 in Seeley; the town's 2020 Census population was 1,337 and Wisconsin's January 1, 2025 estimate is 1,367. Children attend the Hayward Community School District. Seeley is best known as silent-sports country: the American Birkebeiner cross-country ski trail runs through it, the annual Seeley Hills Classic starts and finishes at the Hwy OO Trailhead (Kortelopet Stadium) in the community, and the 2,716-acre Nelson Lake lies within the town.

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