Dundas, Wisconsin

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Dundas, Wisconsin
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Coordinates: 44°14′03″N88°11′54″W / 44.23417°N 88.19833°W / 44.23417; -88.19833 Coordinates: 44°14′03″N88°11′54″W / 44.23417°N 88.19833°W / 44.23417; -88.19833
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of Wisconsin.svg  Wisconsin
County Calumet
Town Woodville
Elevation
250 m (810 ft)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s) 920
GNIS feature ID1564178 [1]

Dundas is an unincorporated community located in the town of Woodville, Calumet County, Wisconsin, United States. [1] [2]

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History

A post office called Dundas was first established in 1846. [3] The community was supposedly named by an early settler who had returned from the island of Dundas off the east coast of Africa. [4] The community may also have been named by the first postmaster, David H. Halsted, for William H. Dundas who was the chief clerk of the Post Office Department at the time. [5]

Notable people

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Dundas, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  2. Calumet County (PDF) (Map). Wisconsin Department of Transportation. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 30, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
  3. "Calumet County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 16 March 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. 66.
  5. Callary, Edward. Place Names of Wisconsin. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 80. ISBN   978-0-299-30964-0.
  6. 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1897,' Biographical Sketch of Joseph Wolfinger, pg. 672


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