Cornucopia, Wisconsin
| Cornucopia, Wisconsin | |
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| Census-designated place | |
Cornucopia along Highway 13
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 Cornucopia
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| Coordinates: 46°51′14″N 91°06′07″W / 46.85389°N 91.10194°WCoordinates: 46°51′14″N 91°06′07″W / 46.85389°N 91.10194°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wisconsin |
| County | Bayfield |
| Town | Bell |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.264 sq mi (5.86 km2) |
| • Land | 2.264 sq mi (5.86 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 623 ft (190 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 98 |
| • Density | 43/sq mi (17/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 54827 |
| Area code(s) | 715 and 534 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1579043 |
Cornucopia is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Bell in northern Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. It is situated on Lake Superior at the northern end of the Bayfield Peninsula, on Wisconsin Highway 13. As of the 2010 census, its population was 98. The community borders the lake at Siskiwit Bay, between Roman's Point and Mawikwe (formerly Squaw) Point. It is near a mainland portion of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, which features the Mawikwe Bay Sea Caves.
Most residents of the Town of Bell with Cornucopia mailing addresses are considered residents of Cornucopia.
Cornucopia has an area of 2.264 square miles (5.86 km2), all of it land.
The Ojibwe used the Siskiwit Bay area as a temporary camp and a stopover on the way to La Pointe. "Siskiwit" comes from an Ojibwe word for a subspecies of Lake trout known in English as a "fat trout". A historical marker at the Cornucopia beach tells of the Tragedy of the Siskiwit, an Ojibwe battle on that site with a band of Meskwaki that lead to several deaths and the kidnapping of a chief's son.
The first white settlers in the Siskiwit Bay area were loggers who came at the close of the nineteenth century. Remnants of this period include abandoned railroad pilings in Siskiwit Lake and a legend of stolen gold on Gold Hill at the southeastern edge of the community.
The first farmers were "Russians" who came to the Town of Bell from the Austrian Empire via Chicago. They were not Great Russians but Carpatho-Russians or Rusyns, an ethnic group found in the mountainous borderlands of Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, and, Romania. Rusyn surnames found in Cornucopia include Kaseno, Celinsky, Sveda, Roman, and Pristash.
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