Oak Center, Wisconsin

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Oak Center, Wisconsin
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Oak Center, Wisconsin
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Oak Center, Wisconsin
Coordinates: 43°39′39″N88°36′00″W / 43.66083°N 88.60000°W / 43.66083; -88.60000
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of Wisconsin.svg  Wisconsin
County Fond du Lac
Elevation
275 m (902 ft)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 920
GNIS feature ID1570599 [1]

Oak Center is an unincorporated community located in the town of Oakfield, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. [1]

Oak Center was named for a grove of oak trees near the original town site. [2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Oak Center, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 109.


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