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Welcome to Saint Michaels ...

Saint Michaels is located in Washington County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Saint Michaels, you might consider that their post office opened in 1877.

A typical abbreviation for Saint Michaels: St. Michaels

Saint Michaels is 1,050 feet [320 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Code for Saint Michaels: 262

Communities Also Named Saint Michaels ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 4 communities that are also named Saint Michaels - they are located in Arizona, Maryland, Newfoundland and Labrador and Ohio.

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

Communities near Saint Michaels ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Saint Michaels to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Saint Michaels post office opened in 1877. The Saint Michaels post office closed in 1905.

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

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 Michaels - 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/