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Welcome to Post Lake ...

Post Lake is located in Langlade County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Post Lake, you might consider that their post office opened in 1884.

A typical abbreviation for Post Lake: Post Lk.

Post Lake is 1,530 feet [466 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Post Lake: 715 & 534<3>

Communities near Post Lake ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Post Lake to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Post Lake post office opened in 1884. The Post Lake post office closed in 1913.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Post Lake.

Footnotes ...

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