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Welcome to Pray ...

Pray is located in Jackson County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Pray, you might consider that their post office opened in 1878.

Pray is 980 feet [299 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Communities Also Named Pray ...

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

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

Communities near Pray ...

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

  • Black River Falls
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Neillsville
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Neillsville is located in Clark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neillsville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,375 people
  • Pittsville
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Pittsville is located in Wood County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 820 people
  • Merrillan
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Merrillan is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrillan
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 522 people
  • Warrens
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Warrens is located in Monroe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warrens
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 346 people
  • Granton
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Millston
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Lynxville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Lynxville is located in Crawford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynxville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 125 people
  • Lapham Junction
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • City Point
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)

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

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

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

Adding Pray to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Pray post office opened in 1878. The Pray post office closed in 1948.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Pray.

Footnotes ...

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