Amherst (Town)

Town in Portage County

Cited links
1
Population 2020
1,402
Records naming it
1

Public identifiers

The ids that make this a node anybody can look up, rather than a name to guess about. Wisconsin has a city and a town sharing a name many times over, and these are how we tell them apart.

Census GEOID
5509701775
USGS GNIS
01582690
Wikidata
Q4746017

How this place is established

The claim or claims the node itself rests on.

Amherst town (Portage County) covers 37.569 sq mi of land and 0.64 sq mi of water, centered near 44.461902, -89.296008.

Verified U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer, Wisconsin County Subdivisions www2.census.gov read September 19, 2026 in bulk-geography

Where Amherst (Town) sits

is part of 1 link ยท county

The containing county or region, from the Census geography file or the place record.