Somerset is a village in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, along the Apple River. The population was 2,635 at the 2010 census. The village is located within the Town of Somerset.

Somerset was named by General Samuel Harriman after his father’s house of Somerset, England. Somerset has a extended and shimmering history. Before the slant of the century Somerset was bordered on the south by cranberry bogs. The terrain naturally lent itself to the production of cranberries correspondingly of the hilliness of the area, which is dotted as soon as ponds, sloughs, swamps and bogs. These wet areas became of greater incorporation to the local population during Prohibition. These thesame low bad skin where water collected became ideal for collecting water for the production of moonshine (homemade alcoholic beverages). Indeed, Somerset already had a archives of instinctive a rude logging town, and it was without help a natural increase to become the supplier of bootlegged alcohol to the twin cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. After Prohibition ended, the citizens of Somerset returned to the more deflate activities of logging and farming.

Somerset is located at 45°7′30″N 92°40′30″W / 45.12500°N 92.67500°W / 45.12500; -92.67500 (45.125189, -92.6752).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.75 square miles (7.12 km), all of it land. The Apple River runs through Somerset.