Columbia, Wisconsin

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Columbia, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
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Columbia
Coordinates: 44°30′59″N90°43′12″W / 44.51639°N 90.72000°W / 44.51639; -90.72000
Country Flag of the United States.svg United States
State Flag of Wisconsin.svg Wisconsin
County Clark
Town Hewett
Elevation
289 m (948 ft)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area codes 715 & 534
GNIS feature ID1563277 [1]

Columbia is an unincorporated community located in the town of Hewett, Clark County, Wisconsin, United States. [1] [2]

History

A post office called Columbia was established in 1894, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1920. [3] The community was named after the song "Hail, Columbia." [4]

In 1918 the History of Clark County said Columbia had a train station on the Omaha line, and that local sites included a school, a church, and a cheese factory. [5]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Columbia, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ Columbia Topo Map in Clark County WI
  3. ↑ "Clark County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
  4. ↑ 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. 171.
  5. ↑ Curtiss-Wedge, Franklin (1918). History of Clark County Wisconsin. Chicago and Winona: H.C. Cooper Jr & Co. p. 665.
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