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Weyauwega is a city in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, pronounced wy-ə-WEE-gə and affectionately nicknamed Wega by locals.

Weyauwega first became a village in 1856 and was incorporated as a city on April 15, 1939.

The population of Weyauwega was 1,796 at the 2020 census, and the 2010 census counted 1,900 people in 746 households.

On March 4, 1996, 37 cars of an 81-car Wisconsin Central freight train derailed in Weyauwega, and fires from ruptured propane tank cars forced the evacuation of the entire city for about two weeks; remarkably, there were no fatalities.

The National Transportation Safety Board traced the 1996 derailment to a cracked switch point rail that inspectors had not been properly trained to detect, and the railroad ultimately paid more than $27 million in damages.

The Waupaca County Fair has been held at the Waupaca County Fairgrounds in Weyauwega since 1874.

Weyauwega has celebrated Horse and Buggy Days, its signature annual festival, since 1961.

The Waupaca River flows through Weyauwega on its way to the Wolf River, and a dam on the river created Lake Weyauwega at the city.

The Menominee people were the prevalent group in the area when European settlers arrived in the early 1840s, and Henry Tourtelotte built the settlement's first frame house in November 1849.

In 1853 a plank road linked Weyauwega to Gills Landing on the Wolf River, and in 1855 the town built a rye mill said to be the largest in the world at the time.