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Valley Junction, Wisconsin

Unincorporated community in Wisconsin, United States

44°03′12″N 90°24′44″W / 44.05333°N 90.41222°W / 44.05333; -90.41222Country

United StatesState

WisconsinCountyMonroeElevation

282 m (925 ft)Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)Area code608GNIS feature ID1576019^[1]

Valley Junction is an unincorporated community located in the Town of Byron in Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States.^[1] It is located at the intersection of Wisconsin Highway 173, Monroe County Trunk Highway G, and Monroe County Highway N.^[2]

History

Valley Junction was named from its location in a valley at the junction of two roads.^[3] The post office had the name in 1900. Two railroads crossed in the center of town: the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway and the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway.^[4] They maintained a joint station.^[5] The Milwaukee branch line between Tomah and Babcock is gone. The Omaha line remains as the Union Pacific Railroad line between the Twin Cities and Milwaukee.

References

^ ^a ^b "Valley Junction, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ 2001-2 Wisconsin Official State Highway Map
^ Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 195.
^ Official Railroad Map of Wisconsin, 1900, Ninth Biennial edition, prepared under the direction of Graham L. Rice, Railroad commissioner.
^ Wisconsin (1916). Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin: Being the Biennial Reports of the Various State Officers, Departments and Institutions, ... State Printer. pp. 670–.