Barron County is a county in Wisconsin, United States, in the northwestern part of the state, on the eastern edge of the Chippewa Valley lake country. It had a population of 46,711 at the 2020 census and covers 890 square miles (2,300 km2), of which 863 square miles (2,240 km2) is land, centred near 45°25′N 91°51′W.<\/p>\n
Barron is the county seat, and its postal code is 54812. The county has four cities, seven villages, 25 towns and roughly 18 smaller unincorporated communities. Barron County sits in the Central time zone.<\/p>\n
Barron County’s settlements split into four incorporated cities, seven incorporated villages, and a long list of unincorporated crossroads communities scattered across the county’s 25 civil towns. CDP stands for census-designated place; Unincorp. marks a community with no municipal government of its own.<\/p>\n
| Place<\/th>\n | Type<\/th>\n | Pop.<\/th>\n | ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barron<\/td>\n | City · seat<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 54812<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Rice Lake<\/td>\n | City<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 54868<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Chetek<\/td>\n | City<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 54728<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Cumberland<\/td>\n | City<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 54829<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Almena<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 54805<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Cameron<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 54822<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Dallas<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 54733<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Haugen<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 54841<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| New Auburn<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Prairie Farm<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 54762<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Turtle Lake<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 54889<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Barronett<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 54813<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Comstock<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 54826<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Mikana<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | 34<\/td>\n | 54857<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Angus<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Arland<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Brill<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Campia<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Canton<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Dobie<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Graytown<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Hillsdale<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Horseman<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Lehigh<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Poskin<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Reeve<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sumner<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Tuscobia<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Twin Town<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Wickware<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n Wisconsin’s “town” is a governmental unit, not a place type in this table — the 25 civil towns of Barron County (Almena, Arland, Barron, Bear Lake, Cedar Lake, Chetek, Clinton, Crystal Lake, Cumberland, Dallas, Dovre, Doyle, Lakeland, Maple Grove, Maple Plain, Oak Grove, Prairie Farm, Prairie Lake, Rice Lake, Sioux Creek, Stanfold, Stanley, Sumner, Turtle Lake and Vance Creek) provide local government for the unincorporated communities and open countryside surrounding each city and village above; several share a name with the municipality inside their borders (the Town of Rice Lake surrounds the City of Rice Lake, for example, and each is a separate government).<\/p>\n ZIP Codes<\/h2>\nNew Auburn straddles the Barron–Chippewa county line and uses a Chippewa County ZIP code rather than one of its own.<\/p>\n Geography<\/h2>\nBarron County sits in the hilly, lake-dotted glacial terrain of northwestern Wisconsin, part of the Chippewa Valley’s outwash plain. Water covers 27 square miles (70 km2) of the county’s total area, spread across dozens of small lakes — Chetek, Prairie, Bear, Cedar and Poskin lakes among them — that draw much of the county’s summer tourism. The Red Cedar River and the Yellow River both cross the county. Barron County borders Rusk County to the east, Chippewa County<\/a> to the southeast, Dunn County<\/a> to the south, Polk County<\/a> to the west, Burnett County to the northwest, Washburn County to the north, and Sawyer County to the northeast; St. Croix County touches the county’s southwest corner.<\/p>\n Barron County had 46,711 residents at the 2020 census, spread across roughly 863 square miles of land for a density of about 54 people per square mile. Rice Lake, the county’s largest city, and Barron, the county seat, anchor the two biggest population centers; Cumberland and Chetek follow as the other incorporated cities. Barron County’s median household income runs below the Wisconsin median of $74,631, typical of the largely rural counties of the state’s northwest.<\/p>\n Agriculture, forestry and food processing anchor Barron County’s economy alongside a growing tourism trade built on its lakes. Jennie-O Turkey Store operates a major processing plant in Barron, one of the county’s largest employers, and dairy and cranberry farming remain significant across the countryside. Rice Lake serves as the county’s retail and healthcare hub, home to Mayo Clinic Health System–Barron County. Chetek and Cumberland both draw summer visitors to their namesake chains of lakes.<\/p>\n The county was created in 1859 as Dallas County, named for U.S. Vice President George M. Dallas, with its seat at the settlement of Dallas. It was renamed Barron County on March 4, 1869, honoring Wisconsin jurist Henry D. Barron, and the county seat moved to the city of Barron soon after. Logging drove the county’s earliest economy, floating timber down the Red Cedar and Yellow rivers to mills; farming followed as the pine was cut over. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a community of Russian immigrants settled in the county, concentrated around the town of Dovre.<\/p>\n U.S. Highways 8, 53 and 63 and Wisconsin Highways 25 and 48 cross Barron County, with U.S. 53 running as a four-lane expressway through Rice Lake.<\/p>\n Rice Lake Regional Airport (KRPD) offers general aviation service; the nearest commercial airport is Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire.<\/p>\n Where is Barron County?<\/strong> What is the population of Barron County?<\/strong> How big is Barron County?<\/strong> What is the county seat of Barron County?<\/strong> How many towns and villages are in Barron County?<\/strong> What ZIP codes are in Barron County?<\/strong> |