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Welcome to Saint Lawrence ...

Saint Lawrence is located in Washington County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Saint Lawrence, you might consider that their post office opened in 1867.

A typical abbreviation for Saint Lawrence: St. Lawrence

Saint Lawrence is 1,090 feet [332 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Code for Saint Lawrence: 262

Communities Also Named Saint Lawrence ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 14 communities that are also named Saint Lawrence - they are located in Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota (2), New York, Newfoundland and Labrador, North Carolina, Ontario, Pennsylvania (2), Prince Edward Island, Quebec, South Dakota and Texas.

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

Communities near Saint Lawrence ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Saint Lawrence to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Saint Lawrence post office opened in 1867. The Saint Lawrence post office closed in 1911.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Saint Lawrence.

Footnotes ...

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