Welcome to Drywood ...
Drywood is located in Chippewa County<1>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Drywood, you might consider that their post office opened in 1875.
Drywood is 1,000 feet [305 m] above sea level.<2>.
Time Zone: Drywood lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
Area Codes for Drywood: 715 & 534<3>
Communities near Drywood ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Drywood.
- Chippewa Falls
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Lake Hallie
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Lake Hallie is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Hallie
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,779 people
- Stanley
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Stanley is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,705 people
- Bloomer
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Thorp
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Thorp is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorp
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,604 people
- Cadott
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Cadott is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cadott
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,411 people
- Cornell
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Cornell is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornell
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,400 people
- Boyd
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Boyd is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyd
- Population from the 2020 Census: 528 people
- Estella
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Gilman
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
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 Drywood. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Drywood.
Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Drywood. 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 Drywood.
We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Drywood. See our Newspapers Page for Drywood.
Adding Drywood to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Drywood 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 Drywood was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
From that list, the Drywood post office opened in 1875. The Drywood post office closed in 1902.
For more details, see References and Mentions for Drywood.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Chippewa, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <2> | The elevation is an estimate for the area around Drywood - it will be higher in some places and lower in others. |
| <3> | When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 715 code has been Overlayed with the 534 area code. New phone numbers in the Drywood area will be assigned with one of these codes: 715 or 534. As a result, placing a call in the Drywood area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number). |
| <4> | 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/ |