Welcome to Granite Heights ...
Granite Heights is located in Marathon County<1>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Granite Heights, you might consider that their post office opened in 1889.
A typical abbreviation for Granite Heights: Granite Hts. (in Canada, 'Hgts.' is the more common abbreviation.)
Granite Heights is 1,210 feet [369 m] above sea level.<2>.
Time Zone: Granite Heights lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
Area Codes for Granite Heights: 715 & 534<3>
Communities Also Named Granite Heights ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Wisconsin communities named Granite Heights: This one is located in Marathon County and the other is located in Washington County.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Granite Heights.
Communities near Granite Heights ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Granite Heights.
- Wausau
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Wausau is located in Marathon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wausau
- Population from the 2020 Census: 38,511 people
- Weston
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Weston is located in Marathon County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 15,165 people
- Merrill
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Merrill is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrill
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,990 people
- Kronenwetter
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Kronenwetter is located in Marathon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kronenwetter
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,143 people
- Rothschild
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Rothschild is located in Marathon County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,256 people
- Mosinee
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Mosinee is located in Marathon County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,195 people
- Schofield
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Schofield is located in Marathon County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,153 people
- Marathon City
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Marathon City is located in Marathon County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,516 people
- Edgar
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Edgar is located in Marathon County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,434 people
- Hatley
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Hatley is located in Marathon County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 603 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 Granite Heights. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Granite Heights.
Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Granite Heights. 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 Granite Heights.
We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Granite Heights. See our Newspapers Page for Granite Heights.
Adding Granite Heights to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Granite Heights 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 Granite Heights was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
From that list, the Granite Heights post office opened in 1889. The Granite Heights post office closed in 1953.
For more details, see References and Mentions for Granite Heights.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Marathon, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <2> | The elevation is an estimate for the area around Granite Heights - 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 Granite Heights area will be assigned with one of these codes: 715 or 534. As a result, placing a call in the Granite Heights 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/ |