Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Antigo, WI

Antigo is a city in north-central Wisconsin and the county seat of Langlade County, a role it has held since 1880, with a population of 8,100 at the 2020 census.

The name Antigo comes from the Chippewa (Ojibwe) name for the river that flows through the area, "Nequi-Antigo-sebi," meaning "spring river" or "evergreen."

Antigo was founded in 1876 by Francis A. Deleglise, accompanied by George Eckart, and the city received its charter in 1883.

Deleglise's original log cabin is preserved and on display at the Langlade County Historical Society Museum, and a street in Antigo still bears his name.

The Langlade County Historical Society Museum itself is housed in Antigo's 1902 Carnegie library building at 7th Avenue and Superior Street.

Antigo sits on a plateau about 1,500 feet above sea level, and the fertile soil around it — Antigo Silt Loam — is so distinctive that it was named the official state soil of Wisconsin.

The Antigo area is one of America's premier seed potato regions: of roughly 10,000 acres of potatoes grown around the city, about 8,000 acres are seed potatoes shipped to growers across the country.

Schroeder Brothers Farms, whose family has farmed in Antigo since 1879, is the largest Frito-Lay seed potato producer in the United States.

In the early 1900s Antigo was best known for its sawmills, and the city remains a center of a farming and lumbering district whose factories turn out lumber, chairs, furniture, sashes, doors, and blinds.

The 2010 census counted 8,234 people and 3,613 households in Antigo, within a total area of about 6.6 square miles.