Chippewa County, Wisconsin

Chippewa County
Chippewa County
County
	Chippewa County Courthouse, February 2015
	Location within the U.S. state of Wisconsin
	Wisconsin's location within the U.S.
	Coordinates: 45°04′N 91°17′W / 45.07°N 91.28°W
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
Founded	1853
Named for	Ojibwa
Seat	Chippewa Falls
Largest city	Chippewa Falls
Area
• Total	1,041 sq mi (2,700 km2)
• Land	1,008 sq mi (2,610 km2)
• Water	33 sq mi (90 km2) 3.2%
Population (2020)
• Total	66,297
• Density	65.7/sq mi (25.4/km2)
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Congressional districts	3rd, 7th
Website	www.co.chippewa.wi.us

Chippewa County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is named for the historic Chippewa people, also known as the Ojibwe, who long controlled this territory. As of the 2020 census, the population was 66,297.^[1] Its county seat is Chippewa Falls.^[2] The county was founded in 1845 from Crawford County,^[3] then in the Wisconsin Territory, and organized in 1853.^[4]^[5]^[6]

^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference 2020-census-55017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on May 9, 2015. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
^ "Early Settlement of West-Central Wisconsin" (PDF). University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire McIntyre Library Special Collections. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 23, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
^ Taken from Wisconsin Blue Book 1991-1992 p. 731; cited there as from "Wisconsin Historical Records, Origin and Legislative History of County Boundaries in Wisconsin, 1942."
^ When Counties Originated from rootsweb.com's Oconto County, Wisconsin webpage Archived March 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
^ "Wisconsin: Individual County Chronologies". Wisconsin Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. The Newberry Library. 2007. Archived from the original on April 14, 2017. Retrieved August 13, 2015.