Trego (also Mills, Superior Junction) is an
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census-designated place
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located in the town of
Trego,
Washburn County,
Wisconsin
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, United States.
Trego is located at the junction of
U.S. Highway 53 and
U.S. Highway 63
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, north-northeast of
Spooner.
Trego has a
post office
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with
ZIP code 54888. As of the
2010 census, its population is 227.
History
Trego, supposedly meaning "three ways", was so named from its location at a
rail junction
A junction, in the context of rail transport, is a place at which two or more rail routes converge or diverge. This implies a physical connection between the tracks of the two routes (assuming they are of the same gauge), provided by ''points'' ( ...
.
References
Census-designated places in Washburn County, Wisconsin
Census-designated places in Wisconsin
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