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Welcome to Okee ...

Okee is located in Columbia County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Okee, you might consider that their post office opened in 1858.

Okee is 800 feet [244 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Communities near Okee ...

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

  • Middleton
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Middleton is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleton
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 20,195 people
  • Waunakee
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Waunakee is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waunakee
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 14,188 people
  • Baraboo
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • DeForest
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Portage
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Windsor
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Prairie du Sac village
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Cross Plains
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Cross Plains is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Plains
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,280 people
  • Sauk City
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Sauk City is located in Sauk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sauk City
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,498 people
  • Lodi
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)

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

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

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

Adding Okee to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Okee post office opened in 1858. The Okee post office closed in 1953.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Okee.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Columbia, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Okee - 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/