Eagle Point is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located in the town of Eagle Point, Chippewa County,

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, United States. Eagle Point is located along the

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near

Wisconsin Highway 124 State Trunk Highway 124 (often called Highway 124, STH-124 or WIS 124) is a state highway in the US state of Wisconsin. It runs in north–south in west central Wisconsin from Lake Hallie to near Eagleton, in the Town of Eagle Point. The ...

, north of

Chippewa Falls Chippewa Falls () is a city located on the Chippewa River in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 14,731 in the 2020 census. Incorporated as a city in 1869, it is the county seat of Chippewa County. The city's name orig ...

History

A post office called Eagle Point was established in 1884, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1913. The community took its name from the nearby bluff Eagle Point, where a Civil War regiment caught a bald eagle they kept as a

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References

Unincorporated communities in Chippewa County, Wisconsin Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin {{ChippewaCountyWI-geo-stub