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  Poplar
Population: 603 Poplar is a village in Douglas County.  
Port Wing
Population: 164 Port Wing is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Port Wing, Bayfield County. Radisson  
Population: 241 Radisson is a village in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Couderay River. The village is located within the Town of
Radisson and was named in honor of the early French explorer, Pierre-Esprit Radisson (c.1636–1710).
Shell Lake
Population: 1347 Shell Lake is a city in Washburn County. Siren
Population: 806 Siren is a village in, and the county seat of, Burnett County. Trivia: The Ojibwa and the French fur traders were the principal inhabitants of the region in the early 1800s. Swedish immigrants began settling
in the area around what is now Siren in the 1880s. Many of them were members of the Evangelical Covenant Church. The first post office was
built in 1895 about a mile west of its present location. The first postmaster was Charles F. Segerstrom, and he had the post office in his
home. His home was surrounded by lilacs, which were and still are quite abundant in the area. Segerstrom applied with the postal department
for a name for the place, choosing "Syren", the Swedish word for "lilac." Presumably the postal department thought this was a misspelling,
for on the granted application they put down the spelling as "Siren." In 1912, the town center was moved nearer to the Soo Line Railroad
tracks, which had been extended north through the area to Superior, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota. The tracks were later removed but the
trail was left behind for recreational purposes. It is now known as the Gandy Dancer State Trail and is a popular route for hikers,
bicyclists, and snowmobilers. On June 18, 2001, an F3 tornado passed through Siren inflicting severe damage. Three people died as a result of the tornado; 175 buildings
were destroyed and many more damaged. Since then much of the town has been rebuilt with its architecture reflecting Siren's history.