Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Bridge Street, downtown Chippewa Falls Bridge Street, downtown Chippewa Falls Official logo of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Chippewa Falls logo Location of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Location of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin State Wisconsin Chippewa Falls is a town/city located on the Chippewa River in Chippewa County in the U.S.

Incorporated as a town/city in 1869, it is the governmental center of county of Chippewa County. The city's name originated from its locale on the Chippewa River, which is titled after the Ojibwa Native Americans.

Chippewa Falls is the place of birth of Seymour Cray, known as the "father of supercomputing", and the command posts for the initial Cray Research.

Chippewa Falls is 15 miles from the annual four-day music celebrations Country Fest and Rock Fest.

Chippewa Falls was originally a lumber town that became a barns town, even though the chief barns line of the 1870s went through Eau Claire, about 10 miles to the south.

Following this, the Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls Railway established a line running from Eau Claire to Chippewa Falls.

This was followed in 1881 by the Chippewa Falls & Northern Railroad, which assembled a line north from Chippewa Falls to Bloomer, eventually being extended to Superior.

Chippewa Falls is positioned at 44.9341, -91.3932.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 11.92 square miles (30.87 km2), of which 11.37 square miles (29.45 km2) is territory and 0.55 square miles (1.42 km2) is water. Renovated Chippewa Shoe Factory facing the Chippewa River in Chippewa Falls 2 Chippewa Falls Public Schools The Chippewa Falls Area School District (CFSD) serves the town/city of Chippewa Falls.

It has two high schools: Chippewa Falls Senior High and Chippewa Falls Alternate High School; two middle schools: Chippewa Falls Middle School, and Chippewa Falls Alternate Middle School; and six elementary schools: Parkview, Hillcrest, Southview, Stillson, Halmstad, and Jim Falls Elementary.

The initial Mc - Donell High School building, sitting at a prominent locale above downtown Chippewa Falls, is listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places.

The structure was assembled in 1907 and, after the school moved to a more suburban location, it sat abandoned for a number of years until it was taken over by the Chippewa Valley Cultural Association and converted into the Heyde Center for the Arts in 2000.

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