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The defunct township of Waupee was around the junction
of 64 and 32,
It was a logging settlement on the Waupee creek for a while. Not really a town or village, but a few homes for families, and a logging camp. The logging men dammed the Waupee for Spring log runs each year and hauled the logs there in winter over several years because it was the most convenient, easy access place for damming and hauling in the area. That is why families lived there for several years; it was a little community . When the trees were cut back too far away, the place folded up and moved on. It was later permanently dammed for recreation to form the flowage and the settlement site is now under water. But they had moved even the log shacks so there wasn't anything left anymore, except some apple trees that the families had planted. There were lots of these places all over northern Wisconsin during lumber times, like Padus up north, and only the names remain in old documents and articles. The creek was named for a folklore Indian Chief's son
- Waupee or White Hawk.
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