Town in Oneida County
Three Lakes
- Population
- 2,413
- County
- Oneida County
- Location
- 45.806, -89.145
The Town of Three Lakes is a civil town (unincorporated minor civil division) in Oneida County in Wisconsin's Northwoods, built around the Three Lakes Chain, promoted as the world's largest inland chain of lakes (28 interconnected lakes, 20 within the town). Its 2020 Census population was 2,413 and Wisconsin's official January 1, 2025 estimate is 2,443. It covers about 80.3 square miles of land, is governed by an elected town board (chairperson Roger Brisk plus four supervisors), is served by the PK-12 Three Lakes School District (507 students in 2024-25), and runs on lakes- and forest-based tourism inside the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. Population, geography, officials, library, and school-enrollment facts bind to primary state (DOA), Census Gazetteer, federal NCES, and the town's and district's own .gov sites; ACS income and age figures and recreation/tourism marketing claims are flagged where only secondary sources were reachable.
What the records show
- Population: 2413 (2020 census), 2443 (latest official estimate) via doa.wi.gov
- Area: 80.346 sq mi land, 19.789 sq mi water, at 45.805834, -89.144896 via www2.census.gov
- Oneida County holds 441 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Named lakes nearest this town: Spirit Lake, Maple Lake, Maple Lake 1, Laurel Lake, Medicine Lake, Townline Lake, Planting Ground Lake, Moccasin Lake, Little Moccasin Lake, Island Lake, Range Line Lake, Big Stone Lake, Little Fork Lake, Round Lake and 26 more via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- 2020: 2413 via doa.wi.gov
- Est 2025: 2443 via doa.wi.gov
- Votingage: 2066 via doa.wi.gov
- Form: town board (chair + 4 supervisors) via townofthreelakeswi.gov
Local government
In memory, from Three Lakes
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