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Vilas County has more lakes than any other county in Wisconsin, [1] with 563 named and 755 unnamed lakes covering 93,889 acres. Lac Vieux Desert near Phelps, at 4017 acres, is the largest.
The first recorded white settler was a man named Ashman who established a trading post in Lac du Flambeau in 1818. [6]In the 1850s migrants from New England, primarily from Vermont and Connecticut, constructed wagon roads and trails through Vilas County including the Ontonagan Mail Trail and a military road from Fort Howard to Fort Wilkins in Copper Harbor, Michigan.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Town of Arbor Vitae: 263.09: 423.40: WIS 70 east – Eagle River: Northern end of WIS 70 concurrency: Iron: Town of Mercer: 288.96: 465.04: WIS 47 south / WIS 182 west – Lac du Flambeau, Park Falls: Northern terminus of WIS 47; eastern terminus of WIS 182: Hurley: 315.07: 507.06: WIS 77 west (Silver Street) – Montreal, Mellen: Eastern ...
Arbor Vitae is a town in Vilas County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,153 at the 2000 census . The unincorporated community of Arbor Vitae is located in the town.
State Trunk Highway 70 (often called Highway 70, STH-70 or WIS 70) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It runs east–west in northern Wisconsin from a shared terminus with WIS 101 at US Highway 2 (US 2) and US 141 near Florence to a connection with Minnesota State Highway 70 (MN 70) at the St. Croix River five miles (8.0 km) west of Grantsburg in Burnett County.
Eagle River was the site of the first permanent Native American settlement in the Wisconsin Northwoods, located on the shores of Watersmeet Lake where the Wisconsin River and Chain O' Lakes meet. These early Natives, who were called Old Copper Indians, were succeeded by the Woodland Indians from 2,600 B.C. to 800 A.D.
View of Big Lake facing west. Big Lake is situated at 9,000 feet (2,700 m) in the White Mountains at the base of Mount Baldy (11,409 ft) in the Apache-Sitgreaves National forest. It is a large reservoir located in the subalpine grasslands and the petran [check spelling] subalpine forests of eastern Arizona about 20 miles from the New Mexico border.