Rib Lake is a village in Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 878 at the 2000 census. The village is within the Town of Rib Lake.
Rib Lake is located at 45°19′7″N 90°12′21″W / 45.31861°N 90.20583°W / 45.31861; -90.20583 (45.318834, -90.206025).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km²), of which, 1.9 square miles (4.8 km²) of it is land and 0.5 square miles (1.2 km²) of it (20.17%) is water.
In 1882 J. J. Kennedy hauled sawmill machinery with oxen from the railroad at Chelsea to the bank of Rib Lake and built a sawmill called the Rib Lake Lumber Company. The next year a railroad spur was built to the mill from the Wisconsin Central Railway at Chelsea. The community was originally called Kennedy Mills.
In 1891 Fayette Shaw started a tannery in Rib Lake, which used tannic acid from locally harvested hemlock bark to tan hides from as far away as South America to make leather. The tannery operated…
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