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Superior, Wisconsin

Administration
Full nameSuperior
Settlement typeCity
CountryUnited States
StateWisconsin
CountyDouglas
IncorporatedSeptember 6, 1854
Government
MayorOffice vacant
Geography
Total Area55.4 sq mi (143.5 km2)
Land Area36.9 sq mi (95.6 km2)
Water Area18.5 sq mi (47.9 km2)
Demography
Total Population27368 (2000)
Density (pop.)286/km2 (740.9/sq mi)
Other information
Time zoneCST (UTC-6)
- Summer (DST)CDT (UTC-5)

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Superior is a city in and the county seat of Douglas County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 27,368 at the 2000 census. Located at the junction of U.S. Routes 2 and 53, it is just north of and adjacent to both the Village of Superior and the Town of Superior.

Superior is situated at the western end of Lake Superior in northwestern Wisconsin. Bordered by St. Louis Bay, Superior Bay and Allouez Bay, it is also framed by two rivers: the Nemadji and the St. Louis. Superior, and the neighboring city across the bay, Duluth, Minnesota, form a single metropolitan area called the Twin Ports and share a harbor that is one of the most important ports on the Great Lakes. Both cities have museum ships (SS William A Irvin in Duluth and in Superior) devoted to the local nautical heritage. Superior was the last port of call for the Edmund Fitzgerald before its famous 1975 sinking.

Superior, Wisconsin Video

A tribute to the 29 men who died November 10, 1975, aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior. ---- Announcer (0:04): An air and sea search is continuing for possible survivors of the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729 foot ore carrier, which apparently broke apart and sunk last night on Lake Superior. The ship and its 29-man crew vanished in a storm with 80 mile-an-hour winds and wave heights up to 25 feet. All that has been found is an oil slick and some debris. -- song begins at 0:17 -- Radio Transmission (3:11): "We last had contact with 'em, the mate had talked to him ... at about 10 minutes after 7, 19:10, and he said he was going along fine and no problem." -- Radio Transmission (3:21): "But it looks from the information that we have that it's, uh, fairly certain that the, uh, Fitzgerald went down." -- Radio Transmission (4:04): "Uh, no, I didn't have him, uh, visually, I had him on radar; he was, uh, exactly 10 miles ahead of us. I asked him how he was making out with his problems and he said he was holding his own, but I, uh, lost contact after that." ---- Lyrics: The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee" The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty, that big ship and true was a bone to be chewed when the Gales of November came early The ship was the pride of the American side coming back <b>...</b>
6.63 min. | 4.97 user rating		 Kent Paulsen ice fishes for trout and salmon in Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior out of Ashland, Wisconsin.
1.32 min. | 4.43 user rating		 Friday April 11, at Wisconsin Point, Superior Wisconsin, there was a storm that created sustained winds of 40-45 miles per hour and gusts up to 55-60 miles par hour, which resulted in waves of 16 plus feet on Lake Superior.
0.42 min. | 5.0 user rating		 One Superior Wisconsin Squad with rude officer giving parking ticket for no reason. Threatened teenager twice then harasses adult and calls two more squads to intimidate the video takers. After incident one officer was at Keyport bar drunk and drinking shots and stating that the people taking the video will pay for it!!! Even more than the harassment they have already put up with and then the officer drove home drunk!!!! And remember it says on there squad cars "TO SERVE AND PROTECT"
9.18 min. | 2.87 user rating		 Dick Bong was a pilot in the US Army Air Forces, a recipient of the Medal of Honor and the United States' highest-scoring ace, having shot down 40 Japanese aircraft during World War II. This is a replica of his P-38 Lightning named Marge after his wife. This museum is in Superior, Wisconsin.
0.52 min. | 4.6 user rating
Winter Ice Racing on Lake Superior - Ashland Wisconsin. (automobile racing)
3.50 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Interview with Eric Bloom of Blue Oyster Cult in Superior, Wisconsin...September 11, 1992.
9.60 min. | 4.88 user rating		 Fearless Fighting Championship Superior, Wisconsin April 11, 2009
6.32 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Jaegers are birds that attack and kill gulls. Nah, they just make them regurgitate their food. This video documents a search for jaegers in the Northwest corner of Wisconsin. Members of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology visit Wisconsin Point (on Lake Superior) in an attempt to see these pelagic birds rarely sighted inland, let alone in the Midwest.
6.68 min. | 5.0 user rating		 me and my boo bear ice skating at a out door rink in superior,wisconsin cottoncandycunt twitter.com
2.47 min. | 4.5 user rating

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1900 31,106
1910 37,643
1920 40,432
1930 46,209
1940 39,731
1950 36,146
1960 35,185
1970 35,329
1980 33,671
1990 27,144
2000 27,368

Duluth, Minnesota

(over 10,000)Cloquet° (MN) 11,463
(under 10,000)Carlton° (MN) * Hermantown° (MN) * Oliver � (WI) * Parkland* (WI) * Proctor° (MN) * Scanlon° (MN) * Superior � (WI) * Superior* (WI)

Municipalities and communities of Douglas County, Wisconsin

County seat: Superior
CitySuperior
VillagesLake Nebagamon * Oliver * Poplar * Solon Springs * Superior
TownsAmnicon * Bennett * Brule * Cloverland * Dairyland * Gordon * Hawthorne * Highland * Lakeside * Maple * Oakland * Parkland * Solon Springs * Summit * Superior * Wascott
Unincorporated
communities		Foxboro * Moose Junction * Patzau * South Range * Wentworth * Winneboujou



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