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Welcome to Dudley ...

Dudley is located in Lincoln County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Dudley, you might consider that their post office opened in 1880.

Dudley is 1,470 feet [448 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Dudley: 715 & 534<3>

Communities Also Named Dudley ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 33 communities that are also named Dudley - they are located in Alabama, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois (2), Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (2), Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio (2), Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.

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

Communities near Dudley ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Dudley to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Dudley post office opened in 1880. The Dudley post office closed in 1881.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Dudley.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Lincoln, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Dudley - 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 Dudley area will be assigned with one of these codes: 715 or 534. As a result, placing a call in the Dudley 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/