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Welcome to Padus ...

Padus is located in Forest County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Padus, you might consider that their post office opened in 1901.

Padus is 1,580 feet [482 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Padus: 715 & 534<3>

Communities near Padus ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Padus to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Padus post office opened in 1901. The Padus post office closed in 1931.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Padus.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Forest, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Padus - 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 Padus area will be assigned with one of these codes: 715 or 534. As a result, placing a call in the Padus 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/