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Welcome to Earl ...

Earl is located in Washburn County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Earl, you might consider that their post office opened in 1905.

Earl is 1,090 feet [332 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Earl: 715 & 534<3>

Communities Also Named Earl ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 10 communities that are also named Earl - they are located in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington and West Virginia.

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

Communities near Earl ...

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

  • Spooner
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Hayward
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Hayward is located in Sawyer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,352 people
  • Shell Lake
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Minong
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Minong is located in Washburn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minong
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 506 people
  • Madge
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Stone Lake
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Nobleton
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Bashaw
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Reserve
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Little Round Lake
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Little Round Lake is located in Sawyer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Round Lake

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

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

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

Adding Earl to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Earl post office opened in 1905. The Earl post office closed in 1984.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Earl.

Footnotes ...

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