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Welcome to Holy Cross ...

Holy Cross is located in Ozaukee County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Holy Cross, you might consider that their post office opened in 1866.

Holy Cross is 770 feet [235 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Code for Holy Cross: 262

Communities Also Named Holy Cross ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 5 communities that are also named Holy Cross - they are located in Alaska, Iowa (2), Kansas and Kentucky.

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

Communities near Holy Cross ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Holy Cross to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Holy Cross 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 Holy Cross was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Holy Cross post office opened in 1866. The Holy Cross post office closed in 1904.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Holy Cross.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Ozaukee, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Holy Cross - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>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/