Wakefield is a former unincorporated community in
Outagamie County
Outagamie County is a county in the northeast region of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 190,705. Its county seat is Appleton.
Outagamie County is included in the Appleton, WI Metropolitan Statistical Are ...
,
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. It is located in the village of
Greenville.
Wakefield had a post office from 1852 to 1879, on land that is now occupied by
Appleton International Airport
Appleton International Airport , formerly Outagamie County Regional Airport, is an airport located in Greenville, Wisconsin, United States, west of Appleton. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integra ...
. The post office (and by extension the community) was named after a Greenville settler, J. Wakefield.
Geography
Wakefield is located at (44.265647, -88.537089)
and has an elevation of 892 feet (272m).
References
Geography of Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Ghost towns in Wisconsin
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