Three Lakes is an
unincorporated census-designated place located in the town of
Three Lakes,
Oneida County,
Wisconsin, United States. Three Lakes is located at the junction of
U.S. Route 45 and
Wisconsin Highway 32
State Trunk Highway 32 (often called Highway 32, STH-32 or WIS 32) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin that runs north–south in eastern Wisconsin. It runs from the Illinois border (at Illinois Route 137) north to the Michigan bord ...
south-southeast of
Eagle River. Three Lakes has a
post office with
ZIP code 54562. As of the
2010 census, its population is 605.
History
A post office called Three Lakes has been in operation since 1885. The community was named from its location near three lakes. As an early railroad was being surveyed, the surveyors had to backtrack and re-route the tracks two times to get around the three lakes. The explanation penciled in on the surveyor's map was 'three lakes', hence where the town got its name. The three lakes the town is named for are Maple Lake, Town Line Lake and Range Lake.
See also
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List of census-designated places in Wisconsin
This article lists census-designated places (CDPs) in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of 2018, there were a total of 176 census-designated places in Wisconsin, down from 179 in the 2010 Census. Lake Shangrila and Pell Lake were annexed by Br ...
References
External links
Census-designated places in Oneida County, Wisconsin
Census-designated places in Wisconsin
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