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Welcome to Fontenoy ...

Fontenoy is located in Brown County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Fontenoy, you might consider that their post office opened in 1870.

Fontenoy is 840 feet [256 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Fontenoy: 920 & 274<3>

Communities Also Named Fontenoy ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Fontenoy - it's located in Quebec.

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

Communities near Fontenoy ...

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

  • Green Bay
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • De Pere
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Ashwaubenon
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Bellevue
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Allouez
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Two Rivers
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Wrightstown
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Brillion
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Brillion is located in Calumet County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brillion
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,079 people
  • Kewaunee
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Luxemburg
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Luxemburg is located in Kewaunee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luxemburg
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,577 people

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

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

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

Adding Fontenoy to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Fontenoy 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 Fontenoy was in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Fontenoy.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Brown, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Fontenoy - 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 920 code has been Overlayed with the 274 area code. New phone numbers in the Fontenoy area will be assigned with one of these codes: 920 or 274. As a result, placing a call in the Fontenoy area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).