Drinking water stations with addresses in Mellen and their reported violations in the past:
MELLEN COUNTRY CLUB (Population served: 25, Groundwater):
Past health violations:
- MCL, Monthly (TCR) - In APR-1999, Contaminant: Coliform. Follow-up actions: St Public Notif requested (APR-27-1999), St Other (APR-27-1999), St Boil Water Order (APR-27-1999), St Violation/Reminder Notice (APR-27-1999), St Compliance achieved (JUN-05-2000)
- MCL, Monthly (TCR) - In SEP-1998, Contaminant: Coliform. Follow-up actions: St Public Notif issued (SEP-24-1998), St Public Notif requested (SEP-24-1998), St Other (SEP-24-1998), St Boil Water Order (SEP-24-1998), St Violation/Reminder Notice (SEP-24-1998), St Public Notif received (SEP-30-1998), St Compliance achieved (APR-20-1999), St Other (APR-20-1999)
Past monitoring violations:
- 2 routine major monitoring violations
- 2 regular monitoring violations
Residents with income below the poverty level in 2007:
| This city: |  5.9% | | Whole state: |  8.7% |
Residents with income below 50% of the poverty level in 2007:
| This city: | 2.5% | | Whole state: | 3.7% |
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Mellen, WI
33 people in nursing homes
Mellen compared to Wisconsin state average:
- Median house value significantly below state average.
- Unemployed percentage above state average.
- Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Median age above state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
- Length of stay since moving in above state average.
- House age above state average.
- Institutionalized population percentage above state average.
- Number of college students below state average.
- Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher below state average.
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Banks with branches in Mellen (2009 data):
- Northern State Bank: Mellen Branch at 103 North Main, branch established on 1933-09-05. Info updated 2006-11-03: Bank assets: $165.6 mil, Deposits: $151.1 mil, headquarters in Ashland, WI, positive income, Commercial Lending Specialization, 7 total offices, Holding Company: Bay Area Banking Shares, Inc.
School Enrollment by Level of School
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2004 Presidential Election results in Ashland County Wisconsin:
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Most commonly used house heating fuel:
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- Utility gas (70%)
- Wood (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Electricity (4%)
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Religion statistics for Mellen
| Name | Catholic Church | Lutheran Church | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | Presbyterian Church (USA) | United Church of Christ |
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| Adherents | 52.8% | 18.7% | 9.5% | 4.4% | 3.1% |
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| Congregations | 24.2% | 15.2% | 6.1% | 3.0% | 9.1% |
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| Name | Baptist General Conference | United Methodist Church | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Assemblies of God | Other religions |
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| Adherents | 2.2% | 1.9% | 1.9% | 1.8% | 3.8% |
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| Congregations | 3.0% | 9.1% | 3.0% | 9.1% | 18.2% |
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Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center.
Tables represent county-level data.
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Local government employment and payroll (March 2007)
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| Function |
Full-time employees |
Monthly full-time payroll |
Average yearly full-time wage |
Part-time employees |
Monthly part-time payroll |
| Financial Administration |
1 | $4,208 | $50,496 | 0 | $0 |
| Other Government Administration |
0 | $0 | | 7 | $1,075 |
| Police Protection - Officers |
2 | $6,046 | $36,276 | 1 | $164 |
| Firefighters |
0 | $0 | | 30 | $3,740 |
| Streets and Highways |
1 | $5,204 | $62,448 | 0 | $0 |
| Sewerage |
1 | $4,540 | $54,480 | 0 | $0 |
| Local Libraries |
1 | $4,208 | $50,496 | 2 | $940 |
| Totals for Government |
6 | $24,206 | $48,412 | 40 | $5,919 |
Mellen government finances in 2002:
- Charges - Sewerage: $98,000
All Other: $23,000
- Construction - General: $136,000
Health - Other: $96,000
Regular Highways: $4,000
- Current Operations - Regular Highways: $157,000
Sewerage: $117,000
Water Utilities: $112,000
Police Protection: $110,000
Central Staff Services: $74,000
Fire Protection: $66,000
Libraries: $53,000
Health Services - Other: $32,000
General Public Buildings: $31,000
Financial Administration: $30,000
Parks & Recreation: $12,000
Solid Waste Management: $11,000
General - Other: $9,000
Judicial and Legal Services: $5,000
Miscellaneous Commercial Activities, NEC: $2,000
- General - Interest on Debt: $21,000
- Intergovernmental to Local NEC - Solid Waste Management: $11,000
- Local Intergovernmental - All Other: $60,000
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding, NEC: $285,000
- Long Term Debt Issue, Unspecified - Other NEC: $21,000
- Long Term Debt Outstanding - Full Faith & Credit - Other, NEC: $215,000
- Long Term Debt Outstanding Nonguaranteed - Other, NEC: $18,000
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified - Other, NEC: $73,000
- Miscellaneous - Interest Earnings: $10,000
General Revenue, NEC: $10,000
Rents: $7,000
- Other Capital Outlay - Fire Protection: $5,000
Central Staff: $3,000
- Other Funds - Cash & Deposits: $586,000
- Revenue - Water Utilities: $64,000
- State Intergovernmental - General Support: $442,000
Highways: $58,000
All Other: $4,000
- Tax - Property: $157,000
NEC: $7,000
- Total Salaries & Wages: $323,000
5.87% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($28,511 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 5.87% | | Wisconsin average: | 6.06% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
6.74% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($30,043 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 6.74% | | Wisconsin average: | 6.22% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Mellen:
- WEBC (560 AM; 50 kW; DULUTH, MN)
- WJMS (590 AM; 5 kW; IRONWOOD, MI; Owner: ROBERTS BROADCASTING, INC.)
- WSPT (1010 AM; 50 kW; STEVENS POINT, WI)
- WSAU (550 AM; 20 kW; WAUSAU, WI; Owner: WRIG, INC.)
- WCCO (830 AM; 50 kW; MINNEAPOLIS, MN; Owner: INFINITY MEDIA CORPORATION)
- WDSM (710 AM; 10 kW; SUPERIOR, WI; Owner: MIDWEST COMMUNICATIONS, INC.)
- WHSM (910 AM; 5 kW; HAYWARD, WI; Owner: QB BROADCASTING, LTD.)
- WCTS (1030 AM; 50 kW; MAPLEWOOD, MN; Owner: CNTL. BAPT. THEO/AL SEMI MINNEAPOLIS)
- WWJC (850 AM; daytime; 10 kW; DULUTH, MN; Owner: WWJC, INC.)
- KSTP (1500 AM; 50 kW; ST. PAUL, MN; Owner: KSTP-AM, LLC (DELAWARE))
- WATW (1400 AM; 1 kW; ASHLAND, WI; Owner: BAY BROADCASTING)
- KFAN (1130 AM; 50 kW; MINNEAPOLIS, MN; Owner: AMFM RADIO LICENSES, L.L.C.)
- KTIS (900 AM; 25 kW; MINNEAPOLIS, MN; Owner: NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE)
Strongest FM radio stations in Mellen:
- WIMI (99.7 FM; IRONWOOD, MI; Owner: ROBERTS BROADCASTING, INC.)
- WEGZ (105.9 FM; WASHBURN, WI; Owner: KEWEENAW BAY BROADCASTING, INC.)
- WJJH (96.7 FM; ASHLAND, WI; Owner: BAY BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
- WHBM-FM (90.3 FM; PARK FALLS, WI; Owner: STATE OF WISCONSIN - EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS BOARD)
- WCQM (98.3 FM; PARK FALLS, WI; Owner: MIDWEST RADIO NETWORK, LLC)
- W280DD (103.9 FM; IRONWOOD, MI; Owner: GOSPEL OPPORTUNITIES, INC.)
- WBSZ (93.3 FM; ASHLAND, WI; Owner: GERALD JAMES HACKMAN)
TV broadcast stations around Mellen:
- WLEF-TV (Channel 36; PARK FALLS, WI; Owner: STATE OF WISCONSIN - EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS BOARD)
- WAST-LP (Channel 25; ASHLAND, WI; Owner: RESOURCE RECOVERY OF WISCONSIN, INC.)
- W45CI (Channel 45; ASHLAND, WI; Owner: KQDS ACQUISITION CORP.)
Mellen fatal accident list:
Mar 9, 1990 03:28 AM, 13, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 6, Fatalities: 1
Dec 5, 1976 12:15 AM, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 2, Fatalities: 1
National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Statistics
Number of bridges: 7
Total length: 10 meters (33ft)
Total average daily traffic: 9,360
Total average daily truck traffic: 737
Total future (year 2023) average daily traffic: 12,670
FCC Registered Cell Phone Towers: 2- On Cth M 2 Km E Jct Sth 13 & Cth M, Type: Tower, Structure height: 122 m, Overall height: 127 m, Call Sign: KNKQ437, Licensee ID: L00128694
Assigned Frequencies : 869.040 MHz, 824.040 MHz, 890.010 MHz, 845.010 MHz, 834.390 MHz, 879.390 MHz
Grant Date: 01/17/2007, Expiration Date: 02/04/2017, Certifier: David C Jatlow
Registrant: American Cellular, LLC - County Road Mm 1.1 Miles East Of Us Highway 13, Structure height: 127.4 m, Call Sign: KNKN485
880.020 MHz, 891.510 MHz, 835.020 MHz, 880.020 MHz, 835.020 MHz, 846.510 MHz, 880.020 MHz, 891.510 MHz, 835.020 MHz, 880.020 MHz, 835.020 MHz, 846.510 MHz
Grant Date: 11/09/1999, Expiration Date: 10/01/2009
Registrant: Verizon Wireless, 1120 Sanctuary Pkwy, #150 Gasa5reg, Alpharetta, GA 30009-7630, Phone: (770) 797-1070, Fax: (770) 797-1036, Email:
FCC Registered Antenna Towers: 3- DONALD R PAGENKOPF, On Cth M 2 Km E Jct Sth 13 & Cth M, Type: Tower, Structure height: 122 m, Overall height: 127 m, , Licensee ID: L00034887
Registrant: Northway Communications Inc, 105 E Oak St, Wausau, WI 54401, Phone: (715) 842-0841, Email:
- Ronald D Obermueller, 2.6 Mi Sw, Type: Tower, Structure height: 88.4 m, Overall height: 88.4 m, , Licensee ID: L00472993
Registrant: Xcel Energy Services Inc., 414 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55401, Phone: (612) 330-2876, Email:
- Jerri L Janjua, Clam Lake Cell Site, Type: Tower, Structure height: 97.5 m, Overall height: 97.5 m
Registrant: Verizon Wireless, 1120 Sanctuary Pkwy #150 Gasareg, Alpharetta, GA 30009-7630, Phone: (770) 797-1070, Email:
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 5- On Hwy 13 2 Mi S, Call Sign: KLO304
Assigned Frequencies : 156.240 MHz
Grant Date: 08/18/2004, Expiration Date: 08/08/2014
Registrant: Dsc Communications, 711 Hammond Av, Superior, WI 54880, Phone: (715) 392-2911, Fax: (715) 392-2995, Email:
- Copper Falls Pk, Call Sign: WNWG770, Licensee ID: L00002662
Assigned Frequencies : 151.400 MHz
Grant Date: 03/16/2001, Expiration Date: 05/20/2011
Registrant: State Of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53707-7912, Phone: (608) 266-2497, Fax: (608) 267-4495, Email:
- MELLEN, On Cth M 2 Km E Jct Sth 13 & Cth M, Type: Tower, Structure height: 122 m, Overall height: 127 m, Call Sign: KZT477
Assigned Frequencies : 151.040 MHz, 151.460 MHz, 155.475 MHz, 155.865 MHz, 154.905 MHz, 151.280 MHz
Grant Date: 07/26/2001, Expiration Date: 09/30/2011, Certifier: Diane Miller
Registrant: Wisconsin State Patrol, Po Box 7912, Madison, WI 53707-7912, Phone: (608) 266-2497, Fax: (608) 267-4495, Email:
- St Hwy 13 2 3/4 Mi S, Call Sign: KNEK875, Licensee ID: L00091585
Assigned Frequencies : 153.170 MHz
Grant Date: 01/07/1998, Expiration Date: 12/30/2002, Cancelation Date: 04/12/2002
Registrant: North Country Lumber, Mellen, WI 54546 - 2.6 Mi W, Call Sign: WNHE792, Licensee ID: L00007963
Assigned Frequencies : 456.675 MHz
Grant Date: 09/19/2001, Expiration Date: 10/07/2011
Registrant: Bayfield Electric Cooperative, Iron River, WI 54847, Phone: (715) 372-4287
FCC Registered Microwave Towers: 3- STATION, 2.6 Mi Sw Of, Overall height: 94.5 m, Call Sign: WNEG862
Assigned Frequencies : 2131.60 MHz, 2138.00 MHz
Grant Date: 07/28/1995, Expiration Date: 07/28/2000, Cancelation Date: 08/16/2000
Registrant: Phone: (715) 836-1125 - Mellen, 2.6 Mi Sw, Type: Tower, Structure height: 88.4 m, Call Sign: WPQN658
Assigned Frequencies : 6004.50 MHz, 5974.85 MHz
Grant Date: 06/22/2000, Expiration Date: 06/22/2010, Certifier: Ronald D Obermueller
Registrant: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP, 600 13th Street, Nw, Washington, DC 20005, Phone: (202) 756-8282, Fax: (202) 756-8087, Email:
- MELLEN, 72804 W Lake Dr., Type: Tower, Structure height: 122 m, Overall height: 127 m, Call Sign: WPRT351, Licensee ID: L00016858
Assigned Frequencies : 6705.00 MHz, 6645.00 MHz
Grant Date: 01/22/2001, Expiration Date: 01/22/2011, Certifier: Diane K Miller
Registrant: State Of, Dot Wisconsin, 4802 Sheboygan Ave., Madison, WI 53707-7912, Phone: (608) 267-9763, Fax: (608) 267-4495, Email:
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 2- Call Sign: KL7VB, Previous Call Sign: NL7VB, Licensee ID: L00494765
Grant Date: 04/28/2002, Expiration Date: 04/28/2012, Cancelation Date: 10/27/2007, Certifier: Virgil W Hoppe
Registrant: Virgil W Hoppe, 74175 Hwy 77 East, Mellen, WI 54546 - Call Sign: KC9VB, Previous Call Sign: KL7VB, Licensee ID: L00494765
Grant Date: 10/27/2007, Expiration Date: 10/27/2017, Certifier: Virgil W Hoppe
Registrant: Virgil W Hoppe, 74175 Hwy 77 East, Mellen, WI 54546
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