Community in Sawyer County
New Post
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- Sawyer County
New Post is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hunter, Sawyer County, in northwestern Wisconsin, sitting on the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation along the shore of the Chippewa Flowage roughly 15 miles east of Hayward. It is not an incorporated municipality: it has no independent government, and civic authority runs through the Town of Hunter town board and the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. New Post exists because of a forced relocation: after the Winter Dam closed in 1923 and created the Chippewa Flowage, it flooded the old Ojibwe village of Post (Pahquahwong), and residents rebuilt on higher ground at the site now called New Post. Its 2020 Census population was reported as 302, and its identity is tribal, historical, and tied to the water: the flowage, wild rice, and the annual Honor the Earth powwow.
The record
2 records name New Post
What the records show
30 of 37 independently verified
Authoritative data
- Sawyer County holds 247 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
Overview
- Name: New Post CDP via www2.census.gov
- Type: census-designated place (unincorporated) via www2.census.gov
- County: Sawyer County via www2.census.gov
- Town: Town of Hunter inferred via en.wikipedia.org Reasoned from other facts on this page, not reported directly.
- Reservation: Lac Courte Oreilles reservation inferred via en.wikipedia.org Reasoned from other facts on this page, not reported directly.
- Coords: 45.902783, -91.207142 via www2.census.gov
- Land area: 20.562 via www2.census.gov
- Water area: 6.91 via www2.census.gov
- Elevation: 1329 unverified via en.wikipedia.org We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
Population and demographics
- 2020: 302 unverified via en.wikipedia.org We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
Government and civic
- Form: town-board government (Town of Hunter) via townofhunterwi.net
- Chair: Jon LeBlanc via townofhunterwi.net
- Supervisors: Barbara Czarnecki; Kyle Cummings via townofhunterwi.net
- Clerk: Patty Swaffield via townofhunterwi.net
- Treasurer: Cindy Neurohr via townofhunterwi.net
- Meetings: second Wednesday monthly, 5:00 p.m. via townofhunterwi.net
- Notices: town website and Town Hall kiosk via townofhunterwi.net
- Site: townofhunterwi.net via townofhunterwi.net
- Tribal: Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Governing Board via lco-nsn.gov
Schools
- District: Hayward Community School District; Winter School District via sawyercounty.gov
- Enrollment: 1885 via nces.ed.gov
- Tribal: Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School via lcoosk12.org
Economy and employers
- Power: LCO hydroelectric facility at Winter Dam via dnr.wisconsin.gov
- Base: tribal government, services, tourism unverified via lco-nsn.gov We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
Institutions and anchors
- Tribe: Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe via lco-nsn.gov
- Church: St. Ignatius church (1934) unverified via en.wikipedia.org We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
Business and commerce
- Identity: dispersed reservation community (no downtown) unverified via dnr.wisconsin.gov We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
Media
- Record: Sawyer County Record via apg-wi.com
Recreation and natural assets
- Flowage: Chippewa Flowage (15,300 acres) via dnr.wisconsin.gov
- Character: wild character; fishing; island camping via dnr.wisconsin.gov
- Trail: mino-giizhigad Trail via dnr.wisconsin.gov
- Musky: world-record musky waters (1949) unverified via dnr.wisconsin.gov We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
Events and seasonal rhythm
- Powwow: Honor the Earth Powwow (mid-July) via lco-nsn.gov
Infrastructure and access
- Highways: County Highways CC and B via townofhunterwi.net
- Hub: Hayward, ~15 miles via dnr.wisconsin.gov
- Airport: Sawyer County Airport (HYR) unverified via dnr.wisconsin.gov We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
Local government
Every figure here traces to a primary public record, linked at the fact. We gather and cite; we do not author. See something off? Tell us.