Downsville, Wisconsin
Census-designated place in Wisconsin, United States
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Downsville is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Dunn, located within Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States,[2][3] where Highway 25 crosses the Red Cedar River. As of the 2020 census, its population was 188, up from 146 at the 2010 census.[4]
Downsville, Wisconsin | |
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Wis-25 runs by town | |
  Downsville Location within the state of Wisconsin | |
| Coordinates: 44°46′29″N 91°55′55″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wisconsin |
| County | Dunn |
| Town | Dunn |
| Area | |
• Total | 0.805 sq mi (2.08 km2) |
| • Land | 0.758 sq mi (1.96 km2) |
| • Water | 0.047 sq mi (0.12 km2) |
| Population | |
• Total | 188 |
| • Density | 248/sq mi (95.8/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area codes | 715 & 534 |
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.[5]
