Babcock is an
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
located in
Wood County,
Wisconsin
Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig ...
, United States. Babcock is southwest of
Wisconsin Rapids
Wisconsin Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Wisconsin River. The population was 18,877 at the 2020 census. It is a principal city of the Marshfield–Wisconsin Rapids micropolitan stati ...
, in the town of
Remington. Babcock has a
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
with
ZIP code 54413. As of the
2010 census, its population is 126.
Its motto is "Birds, Bogs, and Bucks." The community was named for Joseph W. Babcock, a sawmill operator who purchased the site and built a hotel and a depot.
Babcock was once an important junction on the
Milwaukee Road
The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (CMStP&P), better known as the Milwaukee Road , was a Class I railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States, Midwest and Pacific Northwest, Northwest of the United States from 1847 ...
, with lines running north, east, south, and southwest. Today, however, only a single track of the
Canadian National
The Canadian National Railway Company () is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue an ...
runs south to
Necedah and east to
Port Edwards and
Wisconsin Rapids
Wisconsin Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Wisconsin River. The population was 18,877 at the 2020 census. It is a principal city of the Marshfield–Wisconsin Rapids micropolitan stati ...
.
Images
File:BabcockWisconsinPostOfficeWIS80WIS173.jpg, Post office
File:BabcockWisconsinBaseballParkWIS173WIS80.jpg, Baseball diamond
File:Babcock, Wisconsin.jpg, Wis-80 and Wis-173 junction in town
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
1909 plat map of Babcock1928 plat map
Census-designated places in Wood County, Wisconsin
Census-designated places in Wisconsin
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