Welcome to Deansville ...

Deansville is located in Dane County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Deansville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1860.

Deansville is 880 feet [268 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Deansville: 608 & 353<3>

Communities Also Named Deansville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Deansville - it's located in New York.

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

Communities near Deansville ...

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

• Madison
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Madison is located in Dane County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 263,094 people
• Sun Prairie
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Sun Prairie is located in Dane County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Prairie
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 35,119 people
• Watertown
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Watertown is located in Jefferson County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watertown
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 23,370 people
• Waunakee
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Waunakee is located in Dane County
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  • Population from the 2020 Census: 14,188 people
• Stoughton
  (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Stoughton is located in Dane County
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  • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,218 people
• DeForest
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • DeForest is located in Dane County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DeForest
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,915 people
• McFarland
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • McFarland is located in Dane County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McFarland
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,291 people
• Monona
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Monona is located in Dane County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monona
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,164 people
• Jefferson
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Jefferson is located in Jefferson County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,037 people
• Windsor
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Windsor is located in Dane County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windsor

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

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

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

Adding Deansville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Deansville 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 Deansville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Deansville post office opened in 1860. The Deansville post office closed in 1899.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Deansville.