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Welcome to Brookside Station ...

Brookside Station is located in Oconto County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Brookside Station, you might consider that their post office opened in 1876.

A typical abbreviation for Brookside Station: Brookside Sta. (in Canada, 'Stn.' is the more common abbreviation.)

Brookside Station is 600 feet [183 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Communities Also Named Brookside Station ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Brookside Station - it's located in Massachusetts.

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

Communities near Brookside Station ...

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

  • Green Bay
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Green Bay is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Bay
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 103,836 people
  • Howard
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Howard is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 20,346 people
  • Suamico
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Suamico is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suamico
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,064 people
  • Oconto
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Oconto is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oconto
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,575 people
  • Pulaski
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Pulaski is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pulaski
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,766 people
  • Oconto Falls
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Oconto Falls is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oconto Falls
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,805 people
  • Luxemburg
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Luxemburg is located in Kewaunee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luxemburg
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,577 people
  • Gillett
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Gillett is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gillett
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,306 people
  • Lena
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Lena is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lena
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 540 people
  • Pensaukee
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Pensaukee is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pensaukee

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 Brookside Station. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Brookside Station.

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Brookside Station ...

Looking for more information about Brookside Station? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Brookside Station, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Brookside Station.

Adding Brookside Station to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Brookside Station post office opened in 1876. The Brookside Station post office closed in 1881.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Brookside Station.

Footnotes ...

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