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Welcome to Advance ...

Advance is located in Shawano County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Advance, you might consider that their post office opened in 1896.

Advance is 850 feet [259 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Advance lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Advance ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 19 communities that are also named Advance - they are located in Arkansas (2), California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina and Texas.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Advance.

Communities near Advance ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Advance.

  • Howard
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Howard is located in Brown County
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    • Population from the 2020 Census: 20,346 people
  • Suamico
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Suamico is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suamico
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,064 people
  • Shawano
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Shawano is located in Shawano County
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    • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,885 people
  • Pulaski
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Pulaski is located in Brown County
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    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,766 people
  • Seymour
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Seymour is located in Outagamie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seymour
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,457 people
  • Oconto Falls
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Oconto Falls is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oconto Falls
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,805 people
  • Bonduel
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Bonduel is located in Shawano County
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    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,411 people
  • Gillett
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Gillett is located in Oconto County
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    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,306 people
  • Cecil
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Cecil is located in Shawano County
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    • Population from the 2020 Census: 548 people
  • Lena
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Lena is located in Oconto County
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    • Population from the 2020 Census: 540 people

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Advance. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Advance.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Advance. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Advance.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Advance. See our Newspapers Page for Advance.

Adding Advance to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Advance in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Advance was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Advance post office opened in 1896. The Advance post office closed in 1913.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Advance.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Shawano, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Advance - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/