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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. [6] Incorporated as a city in 1869, it is the county seat of Chippewa County. [7]
Its county seat is Chippewa Falls. [2] The county was founded in 1845 from Crawford County, [3] then in the Wisconsin Territory, and organized in 1853. [4] [5] [6] Chippewa County is included in the Eau Claire, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Eau Claire-Menomonie, WI Combined Statistical Area.
June 24, 1994 (Roughly Bridge St. from Columbia to Spring Sts. Chippewa Falls: 33 contributing properties built from 1873 to 1943, [6] [7] including the Romanesque Revival First National Bank built in 1873, [8] several Italianate buildings from the 1880s, the 1890 Caesar Harness Shop, [9] and the 1908 Neoclassical Federal Building.
The Chippewa County town of Anson is also included due to its proximity to Chippewa Falls. This is the definition used by the Chippewa-Eau Claire Metropolitan Planning Organization. According to the 2015 census estimates, this core area had a 2015 population of 129,665.
The first sawmill in the Chippewa Valley was probably functioning at what would become Menomonie around 1831. By 1840, Jean Brunet and associates were sawing wood at Chippewa Falls. Floods destroyed these early mills, and the lumbermen rebuilt them. [5] In the late 1800s, Chippewa Falls was said to have the largest sawmill under one roof in the ...
Irvine Park is a city park located in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Founded in 1906 by William Irvine, it covers 318 acres (129 ha) including a zoo, started in 1909 as a bear pen, [ 1 ] and museum. [ 2 ]
Built in 1916, the bridge was designed by James Barney Marsh of North Lake, Wisconsin, and constructed by the Iowa Bridge Company [2] at a cost of $13,950. It replaced another concrete bridge built in 1915, which was immediately wrecked by the spring flood of 1916.
Lake Wissota is a reservoir in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, United States, just east of the city of Chippewa Falls.It covers an area of 6,024 acres (2,438 ha) and has a maximum depth of 72 feet (22 m).