Welcome to Preble ...
Preble is located in Brown County<1>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Preble, you might consider that their post office opened in 1861.
Preble is 630 feet [192 m] above sea level.<2>.
Time Zone: Preble lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
Area Codes for Preble: 920 & 274<3>
Communities Also Named Preble ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 6 communities that are also named Preble - they are located in Alabama, Indiana, Minnesota, Nevada, New York and Texas.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Preble.
Communities near Preble ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Preble.
- De Pere
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Howard
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Howard is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard
- Population from the 2020 Census: 20,346 people
- Ashwaubenon
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Bellevue
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Suamico
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Suamico is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suamico
- Population from the 2020 Census: 13,064 people
- Hobart
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Hobart is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobart
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,495 people
- Pulaski
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Wrightstown
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Seymour
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Seymour is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seymour
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,457 people
- Luxemburg
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Luxemburg is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luxemburg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,577 people
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 Preble. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Preble.
Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Preble. 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 Preble.
We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Preble. See our Newspapers Page for Preble.
Adding Preble to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Preble 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 Preble was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
From that list, the Preble post office opened in 1861. The Preble post office closed in 1864.
For more details, see References and Mentions for Preble.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Brown, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <2> | The elevation is an estimate for the area around Preble - 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 920 code has been Overlayed with the 274 area code. New phone numbers in the Preble area will be assigned with one of these codes: 920 or 274. As a result, placing a call in the Preble 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/ |