Arkansaw, WI

Arkansaw is an unincorporated census-designated place in the eastern portion of Waterville, in Pepin County, Wisconsin, United States. The 2020 census counted 194 residents. From 1881 to 1886, the community was the county seat of Pepin County. Arkansaw was founded in the early 1850s at a crossing of Arkansaw Creek, a tributary of the Eau Galle River. Arkansaw's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Wisconsin setting. The local scoop is how Arkansaw's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Initially built around lumbering, the first sawmill was opened in the community in 1852. The community lies at the junction of U.S. Route 10 and Pepin County Trunk Highways D, N, O, and X. Arkansaw is home to three churches: Catholic, Methodist.