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Prescott is a city in Pierce County at the confluence of the St. Croix River and the Mississippi River, where the clear blue St. Croix mixes with the muddier Mississippi.

Prescott is the westernmost incorporated community in Wisconsin, although rural parts of Burnett and Polk counties reach farther west.

The city was first settled by, and named for, Philander Prescott, who opened a trading post at the site in 1839; it received its official name in 1851.

Prescott had 4,333 residents at the 2020 census, making it Pierce County's second-largest city after River Falls and the largest city lying entirely within the county.

In the 2010 census Prescott had 4,258 people living in 1,685 households, with an average household size of 2.50.

Prescott is officially part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metropolitan statistical area, and many residents commute to the Twin Cities for work or school.

Freedom Park, on the bluffs above the Mississippi, is home to the Great River Road Visitor & Learning Center, opened in 2006 at the northern gateway of Wisconsin's Great River Road, a National Scenic Byway.

The visitor center is a National Park Service partner site where visitors can collect passport stamps for two national parks: the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area and the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway.

Mercord Mill Park in Prescott offers a direct view of the confluence of the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers, and a four-block River Walkway runs along both rivers downtown.

The city maintains a public swimming beach on the St. Croix River at Lake Street.