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Baileys Harbor is a town in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,003 at the 2000 census. It was the first established village on the Door Peninsula and was named after Captain Justice Bailey, who while seeking refuge from a violent storm on Lake Michigan found sanctuary in the sheltered harbor in 1848. [http://www.wistravel.com/cities_in_wisconsin/baileys_harbor_wisconsin] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 68.8 square miles (178.1 km²), of which, 29.5 square miles (76.5 km²) of it is land and 39.2 square miles (101.6 km²) of it (57.07%) is water.
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Wisconsin, USA
