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Welcome to Boltonville ...

Boltonville is located in Washington County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Boltonville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1854.

Boltonville is 870 feet [265 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Code for Boltonville: 262

Communities Also Named Boltonville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Boltonville - it's located in Vermont.

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

Communities near Boltonville ...

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

  • West Bend
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Port Washington
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Cedarburg
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Grafton
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Richfield
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Plymouth
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Jackson
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Slinger
    (16 miles [25.7 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
  • Saukville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Saukville is located in Ozaukee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saukville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,437 people
  • Kewaskum
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Kewaskum is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kewaskum
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,296 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 Boltonville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Boltonville.

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

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

Adding Boltonville to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Boltonville post office opened in 1854. The Boltonville post office closed in 1907.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Boltonville.

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 Boltonville - 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/