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Waupaca is a city and the county seat of Waupaca County in central Wisconsin.

Its name comes from the Menominee word Wapahkoh, translated as 'Place of Tomorrow Seen Clearly.'

Native American mound builders lived in the area long before European settlement; an early explorer counted 72 earthwork mounds around Waupaca, some of them effigy mounds.

A post office had been established by 1852, Waupaca was incorporated as a village on May 4, 1857, and it became a city on March 5, 1875.

The 2020 census counted 6,282 people in Waupaca, and Census Bureau surveys counted about 2,846 households in the early 2020s.

Waupaca is the gateway to the Chain O' Lakes, a string of 22 spring-fed lakes connected by channels and creeks in the towns of Farmington and Dayton just outside the city.

Waupaca Foundry, headquartered in Waupaca, is the world's largest iron foundry company, melting up to about 9,500 tons of iron per day across its plants.

The foundry company traces its roots to the Pioneer Foundry, founded on the banks of the Waupaca River in 1871; three of its plants still operate in its hometown.

Waupaca Foundry employs roughly 3,500 people company-wide and is the dominant industrial presence in this small city of about 6,300.

The Waupaca River flows through the city, which first grew up around the falls and mill sites on the river.