Stiles Junction, Wisconsin

Stiles Junction is an unincorporated community located in the town of Stiles, Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States.^[1]

Stiles Junction, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
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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

The community was named for the Stiles family of local settlers, natives of Stilesville, Indiana.^[2] The junction was located at a diamond crossing between an east-west line of the Chicago and North Western Railway (C&NW) crossing the north-south Milwaukee Road. The C&NW's branch line ran between Clintonville and nearby Oconto, while the Milwaukee Road's line connected Milwaukee and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.^[3] The line east of Stiles Junction is now abandoned, while tracks in the other directions are now owned and operated by the Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad.^[4][5]

References

1. "Stiles Junction, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. 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. 127.
3. Official Guide of the Railways. New York City: National Railway Publishing Company. June 1941.
4. Glischinski, Steve (2007). Regional Railroads of the Midwest. St. Paul, Minnesota: MBI Publishing. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-7603-2351-9.
5. Wisconsin Department of Transportation (January 2020). Wisconsin Railroads & Harbors 2020 (PDF) (Map).

A Chicago and North Western freight train passes the junction in September 1964

Preceding station	Chicago and North Western Railway			Following station
Oconto Falls toward Clintonville		Clintonville – Oconto		Reagan's Crossing toward Oconto
Preceding station	Milwaukee Road			Following station
Lena towards Ontonagon		Ontonagon – Milwaukee		Abrams towards Milwaukee