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Babcock is a census-designated place in the town of Remington in Wood County, Wisconsin, southwest of Wisconsin Rapids, with its own post office under ZIP code 54413.

Babcock had 122 residents at the 2020 census, nearly unchanged from 126 in 2010.

Babcock was never incorporated and remains under town government; it grew up as a railroad town where two rail lines merged just west of the Yellow River, which flows just west of the community.

The settlement of Remington, on the west bank of the Yellow River, was abandoned in favor of the Babcock site when the railroad made Babcock a division point, and the village was platted in 1891 and named for Joseph Weeks Babcock, whose Babcock Land Company surveyed the site.

Babcock's prosperity lasted only as long as it remained a railroad division point; when the railroad men left, the county history records, a long period of depression set in.

On August 11, 1910, Babcock's junction was the site of a wreck between a circus train and a passenger train that killed four people and many circus animals, including four elephants.

A Wisconsin historical marker in Babcock notes that the community is the site of the last known natural sighting of a passenger pigeon in the wild.

According to the same historical marker, cranberry processing eventually replaced railroading as the area's signature industry, and deer hunting replaced the market bird hunting that once drew special trains of hunters, including Wisconsin's governor, to Babcock.