Downsville, Wisconsin

Downsville is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Dunn, in Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States,[1][2] where Highway 25 crosses the Red Cedar River. As of the 2010 census, its population was 146.[3]

Downsville, Wisconsin
Census-designated place
Looking south at the sign for Downsville on Wisconsin Highway 25
Looking south at the sign for Downsville on Wisconsin Highway 25
Downsville is located in Wisconsin
Downsville
Downsville
Location within the state of Wisconsin
Coordinates: 44°46′29″N 91°55′55″W
CountryUnited States
StateWisconsin
CountyDunn
TownDunn
Area
 • Total0.805 sq mi (2.08 km2)
 • Land0.758 sq mi (1.96 km2)
 • Water0.047 sq mi (0.12 km2)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total146
 • Density180/sq mi (70/km2)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)715 & 534
Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
2010146—

The community was founded in 1855. Around that time, Ebenezer Thompson tried to dam the Red Cedar, but his half-built dam was destroyed by a flood. In 1857 Captain Downs tried again and succeeded in building a dam which powered a sawmill. The village was platted in 1859, and named for Downs. He sold the mill to Knapp, Stout & Co., who expanded it and added planing and shingle mills which employed about 100 men by 1891. By that year the town also had a steam feed mill and a stop on the Menomonie branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway.[4]

Downsville's Lodge 1961 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows built this hall in 1908. It is now a local museum and the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Notes
  1. "Downsville, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Downsville, Wisconsin
  3. "U.S. Census website". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
  4. Forrester, George (1891). Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin. Chicago, Illinois: A. Warner. pp. 123–124. Retrieved June 24, 2023.


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