Lake Tomahawk is an
unincorporated 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 the town of
Lake Tomahawk,
Oneida 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. Lake Tomahawk is located on
Wisconsin Highway 47
State Trunk Highway 47 (often called Highway 47, STH-47 or WIS 47) is a State highway#United States, state highway in the northeastern and northern parts of the US state of Wisconsin that runs in a diagonal northwest–southeast from Menasha, ...
northwest of
Rhinelander. Lake Tomahawk has a
post office
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with
ZIP code 54539. As of the
2020 census, its population was 246, up from 228 at the
2010 census.
History
Lake Tomahawk was originally called Tomahawk Lake, and under the latter name was
plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...
ted in 1892. The community took its name from nearby
Tomahawk Lake. The name of the post office was changed from Tomahawk Lake to Lake Tomahawk in 1928.
References
Census-designated places in Oneida County, Wisconsin
Census-designated places in Wisconsin
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