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Parfrey's Glen, located within Devil's Lake State Park, is a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-designated State Natural Area. The glen is a deep gorge cut through the sandstone of the south flank of the Baraboo Hills. It was the first State Natural Area to be designated in Wisconsin. [1] The valley was named for Robert Parfrey. [2]
The state park encompasses 9,217 acres (3,730 ha), [3] making it the largest in Wisconsin. [4] The state park is known for its 500-foot-high (150 m) quartzite bluffs along the 360-acre (150 ha) Devil's Lake , which was created by a glacier depositing terminal moraines that plugged the north and south ends of the gap in the bluffs during the ...
The Wisconsin State Natural Areas Program is a conservation program created to highlight and protect areas with outstanding natural or archaeological resources in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. There are currently 687 State Natural Areas (SNAs) encompassing almost 400,000 acres (160,000 ha). [ 1 ]
At this point, US 10 becomes a multilane surface road for about six miles (9.7 km), then becomes an expressway and heads southeast, passing through Amherst and crossing into Waupaca County. [10] US 10 bypasses the city of Waupaca to the south, junctions with WIS 22 and WIS 54, and meets WIS 49 south. US 10 and WIS 49 turn eastward to Weyauwega ...
Montreal is a city in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 801 at the 2020 census. The neighborhood of Gile is part of the city; however, it still has its own post office and ZIP code: 54550. [5] Like Gile, the former unincorporated community of Germania has also been annexed by the city.
At the 2010 census, [9] there were 3,423 people, 1,422 households and 829 families living in the city. The population density was 1,188.5 inhabitants per square mile (458.9/km 2). There were 1,526 housing units at an average density of 529.9 per square mile (204.6/km 2).
Miles is located at the intersection of Miles Road and Winesville Road, at an elevation of 689 feet (210 m). [2] It is connected by road to Goll and Wagner (via Old Rail Road, formerly Right of Way Road) to the north, Walsh (via County Highway G) and Porterfield to the south, and Wisconsin Highway 180 to the east.
Medford is located on historic Ojibwe forest land acquired by the United States in the 1837 Treaty of St. Peters.In 1864, the federal government authorized a grant of some 837,000 acres (1,308 sq mi; 3,390 km 2) of this land to subsidize railway construction through the area.