Tomahawk, Wisconsin
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Looking east in downtown Tomahawk
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| Coordinates: 45°28′28″N 89°43′53″W / 45.47444°N 89.73139°WCoordinates: 45°28′28″N 89°43′53″W / 45.47444°N 89.73139°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wisconsin |
| County | Lincoln |
| Area | |
| • Total | 9.34 sq mi (24.19 km2) |
| • Land | 7.76 sq mi (20.10 km2) |
| • Water | 1.58 sq mi (4.09 km2) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 3,397 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 3,339 |
| • Density | 437.8/sq mi (169.0/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP codes | 54487 |
| Area code(s) | 715 & 534 |
Tomahawk is a city in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,346 at the 2010 census. The city is located to the northeast of the Town of Tomahawk and is not contiguous with it.
Before 1837, the land where Tomahawk is now situated belonged to the Ojibwe, who traded actively with fur traders such as the American Fur Company and the Northwest Company. After the 1837 cession, the practical situation changed only slightly: the federal survey teams had not arrived yet, logging activity was still light, and Ojibwe continued to actively occupy the general area. There was a village just north of the modern Tomahawk, in the vicinity of modern Bradley, and a village on Skanawan Creek. The 1854 Treaty of La Pointe created the reservations at Lac du Flambeau, Lac Courte Oreilles and Bad River. Even after this treaty, the region was largely public domain land and the treaties allowed the Ojibwe usufructory rights to hunt, fish, gather wild rice and make maple sugar. Some Ojibwe received their annuity payments in Wausau until the payments ended in 1874. By that time most Ojibwe were living permanently on the reservations.
Logging activity from the Tomahawk River upstream began about 1860 and surged after the Civil War. By 1880 several families were living close to Tomahawk-Wisconsin river confluence, including owning property within the present city limits of Tomahawk. The location was variously known as Bouchard's Station or The Forks,short for Forks of the Wisconsin.
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