Downsville, Wisconsin

Census-designated place in Wisconsin, United States

44°46′29″N 91°55′55″W / 44.77472°N 91.93194°W / 44.77472; -91.93194CountryUnited StatesStateWisconsinCountyDunnTownDunnArea

• Total0.805 sq mi (2.08 km²) • Land0.758 sq mi (1.96 km²) • Water0.047 sq mi (0.12 km²)Population

(2010)

• Total146 • Density180/sq mi (70/km²)Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)Area code(s)715 & 534

Historical population
Census	Pop.	Note	%±
2010	146		—

Downsville is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Dunn, in Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States,^[1]^[2] where Highway 25 crosses the Red Cedar River. As of the 2010 census, its population was 146.^[3]

The community was founded in 1855. Around that time, Ebenezer Thompson tried to dam the Red Cedar, but his half-built dam was destroyed by a flood. In 1857 Captain Downs tried again and succeeded in building a dam which powered a sawmill. The village was platted in 1859, and named for Downs. He sold the mill to Knapp, Stout & Co., who expanded it and added planing and shingle mills which employed about 100 men by 1891. By that year the town also had a steam feed mill and a stop on the Menomonie branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway.^[4]

Notes

^ "Downsville, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ Downsville, Wisconsin
^ "U.S. Census website". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
^ Forrester, George (1891). Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin. Chicago, Illinois: A. Warner. pp. 123–124. Retrieved June 24, 2023.