Beaver Dam
Beaver Dam is a city of 17,000 people in Dodge County of Southwest Wisconsin. The city was named for an old beaver dam located in a stream flowing into Beaver Dam River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 16,700 residents
- Description: city in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States
- Also known as: “Beaver Dam, WI”, “Beaver Dam, Wisconsin”, and “Beaverdam”
- Postal code: 53916
Photo: Downspec, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Downspec, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wayland Academy and Beaver Dam Raceway.
Wayland Academy
School
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Wayland Academy is a selective private, coeducational college preparatory boarding high school located in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States. The student population at the beginning of the 2024–2025 school year was 200.
Beaver Dam Raceway
Sports venue
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Beaver Dam Raceway was a one-third mile banked clay oval track located in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, U.S.A. The track holds weekly races over the Northern American summer months.
Beaver Dam High School
School
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Beaver Dam High School is a public high school located in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States. It is a part of the Beaver Dam Unified School District. As of 25 October 2017 it had an enrollment of 1,045 students. Its mascot is the Golden Beaver.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beaver Edge and South Beaver Dam.
Beaver Edge
Hamlet
Beaver Edge is an unincorporated community in the town of Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States. The community lies on the east shore of Beaver Dam Lake.
South Beaver Dam
Hamlet
South Beaver Dam is an unincorporated community in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States, in the town of Calamus. The community is located just south of the city of Beaver Dam. South Beaver Dam is situated 2½ miles southwest of Beaver Dam.
Beaver Dam
- Categories: fourth-class city and locality
- Location: City of Beaver Dam, Dodge, Southwest Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
43.4578° or 43° 27′ 28″ northLongitude
-88.8373° or 88° 50′ 14″ westPopulation
16,700Elevation
879 feet (268 metres)United Nations Location Code
US BVAOpen location code
86MHF557+43OpenStreetMap ID
node 153557627OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Beaver Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيفر دام”
- Basque: “Beaver Dam”
- Catalan: “Beaver Dam”
- Cebuano: “Beaver Dam”
- Chechen: “Бивер-Дам”
- Chinese: “Beaver Dam”
- Dutch: “Beaver Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيڤير دام ويسكونسين”
- French: “Beaver Dam”
- German: “Beaver Dam”
- Gilaki: “بیور دام (ويسکانسين)”
- Gilaki: “بیور دام”
- Haitian: “Beaver Dam, Wisconsin”
- Haitian: “Beaver Dam”
- Hebrew: “ביבר דאם”
- Hungarian: “Beaver Dam”
- Irish: “Beaver Dam”
- Italian: “Beaver Dam”
- Ladin: “Beaver Dam”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Beaver Dam”
- Persian: “بیور دام، ویسکانسین”
- Persian: “بیور دام”
- Persian: “بیور دم”
- Polish: “Beaver Dam”
- Portuguese: “Beaver Dam”
- Serbian: “Бивер Дам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Beaver Dam, Wisconsin”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Beaver Dam”
- Slovenian: “Beaver Dam”
- South Azerbaijani: “بیور دام، ویسکانسین”
- Spanish: “Beaver Dam (Wisconsin)”
- Spanish: “Beaver Dam”
- Swedish: “Beaver Dam, Wisconsin”
- Swedish: “Beaver Dam”
- Tatar: “Бивер-Дам”
- Turkish: “Beaver Dam, Wisconsin”
- Turkish: “Beaver Dam”
- Ukrainian: “Бівер-Дам”
- Ukrainian: “Бівер-Дем”
- Urdu: “بیور ڈیم، وسکونسن”
- Urdu: “بیور ڈیم”
- Uzbek: “Beaver Dam”
- Uzbek: “Беавер Дам”
- Vietnamese: “Beaver Dam, Wisconsin”
- Vietnamese: “Beaver Dam”
- Volapük: “Beaver Dam”
- Waray (Philippines): “Beaver Dam, Wisconsin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Beaver Dam”
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