Sand Bay, Wisconsin | |
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  Sand Bay  Sand Bay | |
| Coordinates: 46°56′45″N90°53′28″W / 46.94583°N 90.89111°W Coordinates: 46°56′45″N90°53′28″W / 46.94583°N 90.89111°W | |
| Country |  |
| State |  |
| County | Bayfield |
| Town | Russell |
| Elevation | 190 m (630 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code(s) | 715 and 534 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1573653 [1] |
Sand Bay is an unincorporated community in the town of Russell, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The community is located within the Red Cliff Indian Reservation.
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.
Russell is a town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,279 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated communities of Red Cliff and Sand Bay are located in Russell. Red Cliff is the administrative center of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. York Island and Raspberry Island are part of the town.
Bayfield County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 15,014. Its county seat is Washburn. The county was created in 1845 and organized in 1850.
Sand Bay is located on the South Shore of Lake Superior, 14 miles (23 km) north-northwest of the city of Bayfield. The community is also located 37 miles north-northwest of the city of Ashland.
The South Shore of Lake Superior stretches from Superior, Wisconsin, United States, at the southwestern end of the lake along the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, United States, in the east.
Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes of North America, is also the world's largest freshwater lake by surface area, and the third largest freshwater lake by volume. The lake is shared by the Canadian province of Ontario to the north, the U.S. state of Minnesota to the west, and Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to the south. The farthest north and west of the Great Lakes chain, Superior has the highest elevation of all five great lakes and drains into the St. Mary's River.
Bayfield is a city in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 530 at the 2010 census.
