Upson is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

located in

Iron County Iron County is the name of four counties in the United States: *Iron County, Michigan *Iron County, Missouri *Iron County, Utah *Iron County, Wisconsin Iron County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, t ...

Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...

, United States. Upson is located at the junction of

Wisconsin Highway 77 State Trunk Highway 77 (often called Highway 77, STH-77 or WIS 77) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It runs east–west in northwest Wisconsin from the Minnesota border near Danbury to the Michigan border in Hurley. The high ...

and

Wisconsin Highway 122 State Trunk Highway 122 (often called Highway 122, STH-122 or WIS 122) is a state highway in the US state of Wisconsin. It runs north–south from WIS 77 in Upson to the Michigan border near Saxon; the route is located entire ...

southwest of Hurley, in the town of

Anderson Anderson or Andersson may refer to: Companies * Anderson (Carriage), a company that manufactured automobiles from 1907 to 1910 * Anderson Electric, an early 20th-century electric car * Anderson Greenwood, an industrial manufacturer * Anderson Ra ...

. Upson had an

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radar station of the Permanent System radar network (P-16B, ) and a

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, which closed on March 16, 1985. One of the three people that surveyed the area was named Upson.

Images

File:Upson Wisconsin Downtown Looking North WIS 122 South Terminus.jpg, Looking north at Upson from southern terminus of WIS122 File:Upson Wisconsin Sign Looking East WIS77.jpg, Looking east at the sign for Upson on WIS77 File:Upson Wisconsin Sign Looking West WIS77.jpg, Looking west at the sign for Upson on WIS77

References

Permanent System radar stations Unincorporated communities in Iron County, Wisconsin Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin {{IronCountyWI-geo-stub