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Welcome to Barton ...

Barton is located in Washington County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Barton, you might consider that their post office opened in 1851.

Barton is 930 feet [283 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Code for Barton: 262

Communities Also Named Barton ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 29 communities that are also named Barton - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, California (2), Colorado, Idaho, Kansas (2), Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi (2), Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland and Labrador, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont and West Virginia (2).

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

Communities near Barton ...

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

  • Menomonee Falls
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Mequon
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Germantown
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Germantown is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germantown
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 20,057 people
  • Hartford
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Port Washington
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Cedarburg
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Grafton
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Richfield
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Jackson
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Slinger
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Slinger is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slinger
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,704 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 Barton. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Barton.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Barton. 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 Barton.

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

Adding Barton to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Barton 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 Barton was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Barton post office opened in 1851. The Barton post office closed in 1962.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Barton.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Washington, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Barton - 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/