After William Phelps, one of the original proprietors of the company. The village was first named Hackley after the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell lumber company, who were its founders. Several years after the village had been well established the name was changed to Phelps.

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[Source: p. 201 of History of Lincoln, Oneida, and Vilas counties.]