Downsville, Wisconsin
Downsville is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Dunn, in Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States,[1][2] where Highway 25 crosses the Red Cedar River. As of the 2010 census, its population was 146.[3]
Downsville, Wisconsin | |
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Wis-25 runs by town | |
Downsville Location within the state of Wisconsin | |
| Coordinates: 44°46′29″N 91°55′55″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wisconsin |
| County | Dunn |
| Town | Dunn |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.805 sq mi (2.08 km2) |
| • Land | 0.758 sq mi (1.96 km2) |
| • Water | 0.047 sq mi (0.12 km2) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 146 |
| • Density | 180/sq mi (70/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code(s) | 715 & 534 |
| Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 146 | — |
The community was founded in 1855. Around that time, Ebenezer Thompson tried to dam the Red Cedar, but his half-built dam was destroyed by a flood. In 1857 Captain Downs tried again and succeeded in building a dam which powered a sawmill. The village was platted in 1859, and named for Downs. He sold the mill to Knapp, Stout & Co., who expanded it and added planing and shingle mills which employed about 100 men by 1891. By that year the town also had a steam feed mill and a stop on the Menomonie branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway.[4]
Notes
- "Downsville, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- Downsville, Wisconsin
- "U.S. Census website". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
- Forrester, George (1891). Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin. Chicago, Illinois: A. Warner. pp. 123–124. Retrieved June 24, 2023.