Welcome to Lemington ...

Lemington is located in Sawyer County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Lemington, you might consider that their post office opened in 1916.

Lemington is 1,310 feet [399 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Lemington: 715 & 534<3>

Communities Also Named Lemington ...

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

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

Communities near Lemington ...

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

• Hayward
  (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Hayward is located in Sawyer County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,352 people
• Birchwood
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Birchwood is located in Washburn County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchwood
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 426 people
• Winter
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Winter is located in Sawyer County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winter
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
• Radisson
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Radisson is located in Sawyer County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radisson
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 232 people
• Exeland
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Exeland is located in Sawyer County
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  • Population from the 2020 Census: 190 people
• Couderay
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Couderay is located in Sawyer County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Couderay
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
• Reserve
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Reserve is located in Sawyer County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reserve
• Stone Lake
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Stone Lake is located in Sawyer County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Lake
• Chief Lake
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Chief Lake is located in Sawyer County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chief Lake
• New Post
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • New Post is located in Sawyer County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Post

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

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

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

Adding Lemington to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Lemington post office opened in 1916. The Lemington post office closed in 1951.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Lemington.