Welcome to Polley ...
Polley is located in Taylor County<1>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Polley, you might consider that their post office opened in 1907.
Polley is 1,230 feet [375 m] above sea level.<2>.
Time Zone: Polley lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
Area Codes for Polley: 715 & 534<3>
Communities Also Named Polley ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Polley - it's located in British Columbia.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Polley.
Communities near Polley ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Polley.
- Stanley
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Stanley is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,705 people
- Thorp
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Thorp is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorp
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,604 people
- Cornell
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Cornell is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornell
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,400 people
- Owen
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Boyd
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Boyd is located in Chippewa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyd
- Population from the 2020 Census: 528 people
- Withee
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Estella
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Sheldon
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Sheldon is located in Rusk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheldon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 210 people
- Lublin
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lublin is located in Taylor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lublin
- Population from the 2020 Census: 113 people
- Bellinger
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
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 Polley. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Polley.
Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Polley. 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 Polley.
We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Polley. See our Newspapers Page for Polley.
Adding Polley to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Polley 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 Polley was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
From that list, the Polley post office opened in 1907. The Polley post office closed in 1942.
For more details, see References and Mentions for Polley.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Taylor, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <2> | The elevation is an estimate for the area around Polley - 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 Polley area will be assigned with one of these codes: 715 or 534. As a result, placing a call in the Polley 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/ |