What is the population of Hayward, Wisconsin?

Hayward has a population of approximately 2,555 according to the latest available open data.

Where is Hayward, Wisconsin located?

Hayward is located in Wisconsin, United States, at approximate coordinates 46.0066°, -91.4897°.

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Coordinates46.01°, -91.49°

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City facts

Overview

Hayward is a city in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. Its population was 2,533 at the 2020 census. The city was formally organized in 1883. It is near the Namekagon River and is surrounded by the Town of Hayward.

History & geography

History

Before logging, the area that would become Hayward was a forest of pine and hardwoods cut by rivers and lakes. In later years Ojibwe people dominated the area along with much of northern Wisconsin. They were part of what is known as the Anishinaabe group, which consists of Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Ottawa tribes. They traveled on an over 500 year journey to this region from what is now known as Newfoundland. The Anishinaabe people held intense spiritual connections with the land they lived on known as "place making". The land was significant as it guided their identities and traditions. Their journey here was guided by a series of prophecies that explained the "chosen ground" would be one in which food grows on water. When they arrived they lived off the resources provided by the lakes in these areas through fishing, hunting, and gathering wild rice known as Manoomin or the "Food the Grows on Water". In 1745, a group of Ojibwe people, known as Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, settled near Hayward, WI, until the 1837 Treaty of St. Peters, when they ceded it to the U.S. Along with the Homestead Act of 1862. Logging along the Namekagon River had begun by 1864, when government surveyors noted that T. Mackey had a logging camp on the river at what would become Hayward. In the winter of 1878 Anthony Judson Hayward walked up on the ice, assessed mill sites and timber possibilities upstream, and decided to build a lumber mill. Until 1880 the spot was connected to the outside world only by river or logging tote roads, but in that year the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway built its tracks through, connecting it to the Twin Cities and Chicago, and making Anthony Hayward's sawmill plan much more lucrative. He found financial backing and a partner…

Geography

Hayward is located at (46.01, -91.480556). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of , of which is covered by water. Hayward is 71 miles southeast of Superior, 27 miles northeast of Spooner, about 107 miles north of Eau Claire, and 57 miles southwest of Ashland.

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