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Welcome to Gagen ...

Gagen is located in Oneida County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Gagen, you might consider that their post office opened in 1887.

Gagen is 1,640 feet [500 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Gagen: 715 & 534<3>

Communities Also Named Gagen ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Wisconsin communities named Gagen: This one is located in Oneida County and the other is located in Forest County.

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

Communities near Gagen ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Gagen to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Gagen post office opened in 1887. The Gagen post office closed in 1942.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Gagen.

Footnotes ...

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