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Chetek is a town in Barron County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 1,726 at the 2020 census, [1] up from 1,644 at the 2010 census. [2]
It is in the far southwestern corner of Rusk County, approximately 12 miles east of Chetek, Wisconsin. Potato Lake is one of Rusk County's 88 named lakes, and can be accessed by a ramped public boat landing. It is a drainage lake [1] that is connected to McDermott Creek and Potato Creek. Potato Creek eventually flows into the Chippewa River.
Chetek is a city in Barron County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,172 at the 2020 census , [ 5 ] down from 2,221 at the 2010 census . The city is located partially within the Town of Chetek .
Duck Creek is a stream in Brown and Outagamie counties, Wisconsin, in the United States. [1]Duck Creek was named for the many ducks seen along its banks by trappers. [2] In the Menominee language, it is known as SÄqsepaketaheqkoneh, an archaic name meaning "duck landing place".
The Red Cedar River as viewed from the Red Cedar State Trail in Menomonie in 2007. The Red Cedar River in northwestern Wisconsin is a tributary of the Chippewa River.Its name is translation from the Ojibwe Miskwaawaakokaan-ziibi meaning "Abundant with Red Cedar River."
Duck Cove is a cove in Cumberland, Maine, United States. It is part of the larger Broad Cove, which sits between Sunset Point, at the southern end of Yarmouth, and the eastern edge of Cumberland Foreside. State Route 88 (formerly the Atlantic Highway) runs beside the cove (as Foreside Road south of the Yarmouth line and Lafayette Street beyond it).
The Chetek Alert is a weekly newspaper published in the Barron County, Wisconsin city of Chetek since September 15, 1882. [2] It has been owned by Jim Bell since 2011. [ 3 ]
That same year, Milwaukee toymaker Earl F. Wendt produced a wooden toy duck named for the famous mallard. [10] In 1959, Nicholas P. Georgiady and Louis G. Romano, two Milwaukee-area teachers, wrote a children's book titled Gertie the Duck. [11] The book was reissued in 1988 after selling more than 800,000 copies and translated into six ...