Wisconsin Rapids
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city in and county seat of Wood County, Wisconsin, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Wisconsin
- County
- Wood
- Incorporated
- April 6, 1868
- Mayor
- Matt Zacher
- City
- 14.795 sq mi (38.319 km )
- Land
- 13.902 sq mi (36.005 km )
- Water
- 0.893 sq mi (2.314 km )
- Elevation
- 1,027 ft (313 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 18,670
- Density
- 1,343.7/sq mi (518.81/km )
- Urban
- 29,550
- Metro
- 73,939
- Time zone
- UTC–6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC–5 (CDT)
- Zip codes
- 54494, 54495
- Area codes
- 715 and 534
- Fips code
- 55-88200
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Encyclopedic overview
Wisconsin Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Wisconsin River. The population was 18,877 at the 2020 census. It is a principal city of the Marshfield–Wisconsin Rapids micropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Wood County and had a population of 74,207 in 2020.
The city was established in the late 1830s as the series of rapids along the Wisconsin River provided good sites for water-driven sawmills, and nearby forests held pine lumber to be sawed and floated down the river. After the lumber dwindled, the waterpower drove electric generators and various other enterprises–particularly paper mills.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wisconsin Rapids” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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