Additional Information:
Waupaca Area Chamber of Commerce
221 S. Main St.
Waupaca, WI 54981-1522 (USA)
(715) 258-7343 or toll-free (888) 417-4040
Chamber office hours:
8 am-5 pm, M-F.
Summer office hours:
8 am-5 pm, M-F;
9 am-1pm Saturdays & Holidays;
closed Sundays. (Memorial Day - Labor Day).
| Local Units of Government in the State of Wisconsin | |
| Waupaca Service Area, Area Maps, Our Community | |
From the Wisconsin Blue Book: In Wisconsin, local units of government include counties, cities, villages, towns and school districts. Special districts may be formed to handle regional concerns, such as police and fire protection. Within the limits of statutory law, each governmental unit has the power to tax and to make legally binding rules governing its own affairs. |
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VOTING--In Wisconsin, polling is done within each municipality: city, village or township. Proof of identity is required. To find out where you go to vote, call the clerk of your municipality. |
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Counties |
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| Wisconsin has 72 counties. Together, they cover the entire
territory of the state. The government offices for each county are located
in a municipality within the county designated as the "county
seat".
The governing body of each county is its board of supervisors. |
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Towns (Townships) |
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| In the beginning, when Wisconsin's land first was surveyed,
the state was divided into 72 counties, which were each sub-divided
into a grid of townships (See
Waupaca County map.)
Cities and other municipalities grew over this
grid, so that today town governments govern all areas of the state that
are not included inside the corporate bodies of either a city or a
village.
Wisconsin has 1,265 towns, including the entire County of Menominee, which is designated as a town. Towns have only those powers granted by Wisconsin statutes. These include responsibility for local road maintenance, plus a variety of other duties up to and including urban-type services like garbage collection and police protection. Usually, the town board is composed of three supervisors. But it may have up to five and exercise village powers if the population is 2,500 or more. |
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Towns Immediately Surrounding City of Waupaca |
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Four townships surround the City of Waupaca. They are:
Since Waupaca is located in the southwest corner of Waupaca County, our community includes some residents of Portage and Waushara Counties, as well as Waupaca County. Some neighboring townships include:
Note: King, Wisconsin, postal area code 54946, is site of the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King. The home has its own post office and mail can be delivered to post office boxes there, but King is not incorporated. Thus, homes and businesses in King have Waupaca street addresses, may have King postal box addresses and actually are located in the Town of Farmington. The "Yankee village" of Rural is another unincorporated area with a Waupaca address. It is located in the Town of Dayton. |
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Our Service Area = approximately 30,000 |
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| Population within a 15 mile radius of Waupaca totals over 30,000. We have used this measurement to determine our local service area, and the resulting figures have been confirmed by a customer zip code study undertaken by Main Street Waupaca. | |