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Three Lakes is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Three Lakes, Oneida County, at the junction of U.S. Route 45 and Wisconsin Highway 32, about 9 miles south-southeast of Eagle River.

The community is named for three lakes railroad surveyors had to route around - Maple Lake, Town Line Lake and Range Line Lake; surveyors penciled 'three lakes' on their map, and the name stuck.

A post office called Three Lakes has operated since 1885, and the town of Three Lakes formally dates to 1881, when the railroad pushed north through the Northwoods.

The Three Lakes CDP counted 605 residents at the 2020 census, unchanged from 2010, in about 299 occupied homes, while the surrounding town of Three Lakes had 2,413 residents.

Three Lakes sits at the south end of the Eagle River-Three Lakes chain of 28 interconnected lakes, promoted as the largest chain of inland freshwater lakes in the world; the Three Lakes portion alone includes 20 lakes ranging from 123 to 1,012 acres.

The area's first industry was logging, and Three Lakes and the rest of the Northwoods supplied timber used to rebuild Chicago after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Three Lakes lies on the western edge of the roughly 650,000-acre Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, with access to hiking, biking, camping and snowmobiling trails.

The community began growing as a tourist vacation destination in the late 1930s and remains a lake-resort community whose seasonal population far exceeds its year-round count.