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  2. Nekoosa, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    Nekoosa, Wisconsin. Location of Nekoosa in Wood County, Wisconsin. /  44.31917°N 89.90000°W  / 44.31917; -89.90000. Nekoosa is a city in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. Its name derives from the Ho-Chunk word, "Nįįkuusra", "Nakrusa", or "Nįkusara" which translates to "running water". [6] [7] The population was 2,580 at the ...

  3. Point Basse - Wikipedia

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    Location within the state of Wisconsin. Coordinates: 44°18′1″N 89°53′24″W. /  44.30028°N 89.89000°W  / 44.30028; -89.89000. Point Basse refers to both a sharp bend in the Wisconsin River near present day Nekoosa, Wisconsin, as well as to a nearby historic village downstream from the point itself, the village no longer being in ...

  4. Wood County, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    Wood County comprises the Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI Micropolitan Statistical Area and is included in the Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI Combined Statistical Area. Geography [ edit ] According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 809 square miles (2,100 km 2 ), of which 793 square miles (2,050 km 2 ) is ...

  5. Rome, Adams County, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    2742066. Website. www .romewi .com. The Town of Rome is located in Adams County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 2,720 at the 2010 census. [1] The census-designated places of Lake Arrowhead, Lake Camelot, and Lake Sherwood are located in the town. The unincorporated communities of New Rome and Rome are also located in the town.

  6. Port Edwards (town), Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    715 & 534. PLSS township. parts of T21N R4E, T21N R5E, and T22N R5E. Port Edwards is a town in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,446 at the 2000 census. The village of Port Edwards is located to the northeast of and adjacent to the town. The town contains the Ho-Chunk community of Ceex Haci .

  7. Geography of Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    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 & Lowlands, and Western ...

  8. Glacial Lake Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    Glacial Lake Wisconsin 20,000 years ago with modern counties for geographical context. Glacial Lake Wisconsin was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed from approximately 18,000 to 14,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, in the central part of present-day Wisconsin in the United States .

  9. Regions of Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    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.