Superior

Superior is a town in, and the county seat of, Douglas County in the kingdom of Wisconsin. The population become 27,244 at the 2010 census. Located at the junction of U.S. Highway 2 and U.S. Highway 53, it is right away north of and adjacent to both the Village of Superior and the Town of Superior. Its neighborhoods consist of Billings Park, North End, South Superior, Central Park, East End, Allouez, and Itasca. Billings Park, South Superior, East End, and North End every have small business districts.

Superior is at the western quit of Lake Superior in northwestern Wisconsin. Bordered through Saint Louis, Superior, and Allouez bays, the metropolis is framed through two rivers: the Nemadji and the Saint Louis. Superior and the neighboring city throughout the bay, Duluth, Minnesota, form a single metropolitan place referred to as the Twin Ports. They proportion a harbor this is one of the most important ports on the Great Lakes. Both towns function museum ships SS William A. Irvin in Duluth and SS Meteor in Superior dedicated to the neighborhood maritime historical past. Superior became the final port of call for the Edmund Fitzgerald earlier than its sinking in 1975.