Shell Lake, Wisconsin

Shell Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Shell Lake added 26 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by -5.

Shell Lake covers 5.85 square miles of land and 4.40 of water, for 238 people per square mile of land. The median Wisconsin place of 5,000+ has 1,583, so Shell Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Shell Lake is in

All of Shell Lake's residents live in Washburn County, which had 16,982 residents in 2024. Shell Lake holds 8.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shell Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shell Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 54871. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Shell Lake is

The Census internal point of Shell Lake is at 45.726400, -91.910000. Madison, the capital, is 221.6 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Spooner, WI (2,494 people), 7.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 79.0 miles away.

Daylight in Shell Lake

At 45.73° N, Shell Lake gets about 15 h 43 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 41 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shell Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wisconsin, measured between internal points. The closest is Spooner, 7.0 miles away, with 2,494 people.