Brackett, Wisconsin

Brackett, Wisconsin
Brackett, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
	Brackett Brackett
	Coordinates: 44°42′05″N 91°21′04″W / 44.70139°N 91.35111°W
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Eau Claire
Elevation	289 m (948 ft)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)	715 & 534
GNIS feature ID	1562120

Brackett is an unincorporated community located on U.S. Route 53 in the town of Washington, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States.^[1]^[2] It was named for James M. Brackett, a newspaper editor and publisher. He was involved with the Eau Claire Free Press in the 1870s.^[3]

In popular culture

Indie/Alternative band Bon Iver has a song called "Brackett, WI", which was featured on the 2009 charity compilation album Dark Was The Night.

Notes

^ ^a ^b "Brackett, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ "Brackett Populated Place Profile / EAU Claire County, Wisconsin Data".
^ Callary, Edward (2016). Place Names of Wisconsin. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-299-30964-0.

External links

History of the Brackett School Area, 1949

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[gnis-1] "Brackett, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.

[2] "Brackett Populated Place Profile / EAU Claire County, Wisconsin Data".

[3] Callary, Edward (2016). Place Names of Wisconsin. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-299-30964-0.

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v t e Municipalities and communities of Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States
County seat: Eau Claire
Cities	Altoona Augusta Eau Claire‡
Villages	Fairchild Fall Creek
Towns	Bridge Creek Brunswick Clear Creek Drammen Fairchild Lincoln Ludington Otter Creek Pleasant Valley Seymour Union Washington Wilson
CDP	Seymour
Other communities	Allen Brackett Candy Corners Cleghorn Foster Hale Corner Hay Creek Ludington Lufkin Mount Hope Corners Nix Corner Rodell Truax Union Wilson
Ghost towns	Hadleyville Nelsonville Oak Grove Porter's Mills
Indian reservation	Ho-Chunk Indian Reservation‡
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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Brackett, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 44°42′05″N 91°21′04″W / 44.70139°N 91.35111°W / 44.70139; -91.35111
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Eau Claire
Elevation	289 m (948 ft)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)	715 & 534
GNIS feature ID	1562120^[1]