Bethesda, Wisconsin

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Bethesda, Wisconsin
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Bethesda, Wisconsin
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Bethesda, Wisconsin
Coordinates: 42°59′16″N88°19′06″W / 42.98778°N 88.31833°W / 42.98778; -88.31833
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of Wisconsin.svg  Wisconsin
County Waukesha
Elevation
257 m (843 ft)
Time zone UTC−6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC−5 (CDT)
Area code 262
GNIS feature ID1577515 [1]

Bethesda is an unincorporated community in the town of Genesee, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States, locaded near County Roads DE, and DT. [1] The community was named for Bethesda Park, a spa and tourist resort built around a medicinal spring developed by Richard Dunbar in the late 1860s. [2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Bethesda, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Callary, Edward (2016). Place Names of Wisconsin. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 28. ISBN   978-0-299-30964-0.


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