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Amery (/ ˈ eɪ m ər i / AY-mər-ee) [6] is a city in Polk County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Apple River. It is a part of Wisconsin's 7th congressional district. The population was 2,902 at the 2010 census. The city was named in honor of William Amery, a carpenter who held several local offices in the 1870s. [7]
Amery Municipal Airport covers an area of 218 acres (88 ha) at an elevation of 1,088 feet (332 m) above mean sea level.It has one VASI equipped runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,000 by 75 feet (1,219 x 23 m).
The Apple River was once an important route of trade for the logging industry; timber was floated downstream from logging camps in the north to a sawmill in Amery, Wisconsin where it was cut, loaded onto trains and transported throughout the region. Today, the river generates tourism revenue through recreation and resorts, attracting 500,000 ...
After the Wisconsin Territory was established in 1836, large amounts of American Indian territories were ceded to the United states via the White Pine Treaty, formally known as the treaty of St. Peters, much of the land was covered in vast pine forests, and logging activates began soon after.
Little Falls is an unincorporated community located in the town of Alden, Polk County, Wisconsin, United States. Little Falls is located at the junction of County Highways C and PP 3.6 miles (5.8 km) southwest of Amery. [2] The Apple River flows through Little Falls and was once dammed where County Road C now crosses the river.
A general map of Wisconsin. Wisconsin, a state in the Midwestern United States, has a vast and diverse geography famous for its landforms created by glaciers during the Wisconsin glaciation 17,000 years ago. The state can be generally divided into five geographic regions—Lake Superior Lowland, Northern Highland, Central Plain, Eastern Ridges ...
The geographical regions of Wisconsin [1]. The Western Upland is a geographical region covering much of the western half of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It stretches from southern Polk County, Wisconsin in the north to the state border with Illinois in the south, and from Rock County in the east to the Mississippi River in the west.
Professor Lawrence Martin created a schema for dividing Wisconsin into geographical regions in his work "The Physical Geography of Wisconsin". [1] [2] Western Upland; Eastern Ridges and Lowlands; Central Plain; Northern Highland; Lake Superior Lowland; Three of these geographical provinces are uplands and two are lowlands.