Tomahawk, Wisconsin
Tomahawk is positioned in Wisconsin Tomahawk - Tomahawk Tomahawk is a town/city in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, United States.
The town/city is positioned to the northeast of the Town of Tomahawk and is not adjoining with it.
Before 1837, the territory where Tomahawk is now situated belonged to the Ojibwe, who interchanged actively with fur traders such as the American Fur Company and the Northwest Company.
There was a village just north of the undivided Tomahawk, in the vicinity of undivided Bradley, and a village on Skanawan Creek. The 1854 Treaty of La Pointe created the reservations at Lac du Flambeau, Lac Courte Oreilles and Bad River. Even after this treaty, the region was largely enhance domain territory and the treaties allowed the Ojibwe usufructory rights to hunt, fish, gather wild rice and make maple sugar. Some Ojibwe received their annuity payments in Wausau until the payments ended in 1874. By that time most Ojibwe were residing permanently on the reservations.
Logging activeness from the Tomahawk River upstream began about 1860 and surged after the Civil War.
By 1880 a several families were residing close to Tomahawk-Wisconsin river confluence, including owning property inside the present town/city limits of Tomahawk. The locale was variously known as Bouchard's Station or The Forks,short for Forks of the Wisconsin. The business leading the accomplishment was the Tomahawk Land and Boom Company, headed by William H.
Bradley, who is thus considered to be the principal founder of Tomahawk.
The Tomahawk Land and Boom Company was owned 51 percent by the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul barns , and 49 percent by the Land, Log and Lumber Company (Bradley and his partners).
In the 10 years after the first assembly camps were built, Tomahawk interval rapidly, boasting many stores, a three-story hotel, many saw mills, a paper mill, and service via three barns s. Among the affairs highlighting Tomahawk's history since that time are: 1914: The first aircraft lands on north Tomahawk Avenue, there being no other runway yet. 1917: Tomahawk men enlist and form Company A, 119th Machine Gun Battalion, which is deployed to Europe via Waco, Texas. 1941: The United States declares war on Japan, and many Tomahawk young men and women enlist in military and other service.
Tomahawk is positioned at 45 28 28 N 89 43 53 W (45.474463, -89.731454). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.34 square miles (24.19 km2), of which, 7.76 square miles (20.10 km2) is territory and 1.58 square miles (4.09 km2) is water. Tomahawk lies at an elbow shaped bend in the Wisconsin River.
Mohawksin is a concatenation of the last syllable of the three rivers that flow into it the Somo, the Tomahawk and the Wisconsin.
There were 1,480 homeholds of which 28.1% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 43.0% were married couples residing together, 10.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.3% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 40.9% were non-families.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 97.98% White, 0.05% Black or African American, 0.64% Native American, 0.66% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.21% from other competitions, and 0.42% from two or more competitions.
There were 1,527 homeholds out of which 30.3% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 49.1% were married couples residing together, 10.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 37.3% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.1% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 20.3% from 45 to 64, and 20.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
Tomahawk is served by the Tomahawk Regional Airport (KTKV).
Located three miles west of the city, the airport handles roughly 7,200 operations per year, with approximately 97% general aviation and 3% air taxi.
Tomahawk is served by the Tomahawk School District and its three enhance schools: Tomahawk Elementary School Tomahawk Middle School Tomahawk High School Tomahawk hosts many activities and affairs, especially in the summer.
Tomahawk Fire and Rescue School Tomahawk High School Wisconsin River in Tomahawk Marchetti, Louis History of Marathon County, Wisconsin and Representative Citizens (Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Pub.
The 1880 census lists two families titled Bouchard, one titled King, and one titled Faufau, who all pre-empted property inside the present-day town/city limits.
Warner, Hans B., Editor The blue book of the state of Wisconsin (1880) The map on the frontispiece shows "Boucharels Station," an obvious misspelling of "Bouchard." Calkins, Hiram "Indian Nomenclature, and the Chippewas," Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume I (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1854), p.
Many early maps gave the Tomahawk River the name Little Wisconsin River.
"Tomahawk Land and Boom Company".
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Tomahawk Leader July 2, 1936 Tomahawk Leader August 9, 1976 "Climate Summary for Tomahawk, Wisconsin".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Official Web Site of the Annual Tomahawk Fall Ride".
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