Stiles Junction, Wisconsin

Stiles Junction is an unincorporated community located in the town of Stiles, Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States.^[1] The Stiles area was originally a settled by Anson Eldred in 1853 and named after Howard STILES ELDRED, his son.^[2] Jeremiah Stiles, originally from Stilesville, Indiana was a local land owner and head of the Stiles family that settled in this area of Stiles.^[3] In 1882 this unincorporated area was given the name Stiles Junction.^[4] Nearby is the crossroads of U.S. Highway 141 and Wisconsin State Highway 22.^[5]

Stiles Junction, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
A Chicago and North Western freight train passes the junction, 1964
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Coordinates: 44°53′00″N 88°02′48″W
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Oconto
Elevation	200 m (656 ft)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code	920
GNIS feature ID	1577839[1]

History

Stiles Junction is located at a diamond crossing between an east-west line of the Chicago and North Western Railway (C&NW) crossing of the north-south Milwaukee Road Road. The junction came to be with the crossing of the C&NW's branch line (1884)^[6] running between Clintonville and nearby Oconto. The preexisting Milwaukee Road's line (December 30, 1882)^[7][8] connected Milwaukee and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.^[9] The rail line eastward from the junction to Oconto, Wisconsin is now abandoned.^[10][11]