Lapham Junction, Wisconsin

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Lapham Junction, Wisconsin
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Coordinates: 44°17′51″N90°28′41″W / 44.29750°N 90.47806°W / 44.29750; -90.47806 Coordinates: 44°17′51″N90°28′41″W / 44.29750°N 90.47806°W / 44.29750; -90.47806
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of Wisconsin.svg  Wisconsin
County Jackson
Town Knapp
Elevation
303 m (994 ft)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s) 715 & 534
GNIS feature ID1577691 [1]

Lapham Junction is a former rail junction located in the town of Knapp, Jackson County, Wisconsin, United States. [1] [2] [3]

Lapham Junction was the location of a railroad junction on the Goodyear branch of the Milwaukee Road. The branch ran to Zeda, where lumbering operations took place. [4] [5] Although it still shows up on some maps, the location is now nothing more than an intersection of two local township roads that were built on top of the old railroad grade. The community was named after Increase A. Lapham, [6] a Wisconsin scientist, author and naturalist.

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Notes

  1. 1 2 "Lapham Junction, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  2. "Wild Turkey Population in State More than Doubled in Past Summer". The La Crosse Tribune. November 17, 1957. p. 18. Retrieved April 28, 2020 via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  3. Wisconsin Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, ME: DeLorme. 1998. p. 51.
  4. https://lacrossetribune.com/tomahjournal/lifestyles/ghostly-post-the-vanished-logging-post-offices-of-goodyear-and-mckenna/article_333c359c-5058-11e2-8dee-001a4bcf887a.html
  5. "Poor's Manual of Railroads". H.V. & H.W. Poor. September 29, 1891 via Google Books.
  6. Callary, Edward (2016). Place Names of Wisconsin. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 150. ISBN   978-0-299-30964-0.


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