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Welcome to Johnsonville ...

Johnsonville is located in Sheboygan County<1>.

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

Johnsonville is 750 feet [229 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Johnsonville: 920 & 274<3>

Communities Also Named Johnsonville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 19 communities that are also named Johnsonville - they are located in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois (2), Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina (2), Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Utah.

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

Communities near Johnsonville ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Johnsonville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Johnsonville 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 for Johnsonville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Johnsonville post office opened in 1866.

We also found Johnsonville in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Johnsonville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Sheboygan, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Johnsonville - 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 Johnsonville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 920 or 274. As a result, placing a call in the Johnsonville area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/