Prentice (town), Wisconsin

Prentice is a town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 479 at the 2000 census. The Village of Prentice is located within the town. The unincorporated community of Pennington is located also in the town.

The town is irregularly shaped, consisting of a typically rectangular shape to the east of the Village of Prentice adjoined to an irregular rectangular slab west of the village, north of the Town of Ogema, east of the Town of Catawba, and south of the Town of Hackett.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 69.5 square miles (180.1 km²), of which, 69.3 square miles (179.6 km²) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km²) of it (0.26%) is water.

The northern trailhead of Wisconsin's Pine Line Trail, an unpaved, multiuse rail-trail extending just over 26 miles to Medford in the south, lies just outside Prentice.

Prentice is served by the Prentice Airport (5N2). Located one mile east of the village, the airport handles approximately 1,500 operations per year, with roughly 99% general aviation and 1% air taxi. The airport has a 3,250 foot asphalt runway (Runway 9-27).

As of the census of 2000, there were 479 people, 196 households, and 137 families residing in the town. The population density was 6.9 people per square mile (2.7/km²). There were 263 housing units at an average density of 3.8 per square mile (1.5/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.75% White, 0.21% Native American, 0.21% Asian, and 0.84% from two or more races. 0.63% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

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