Official Name: | Yankeetown, Wisconsin |
Pushpin Map: | Wisconsin#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Yankeetown |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Crawford |
Subdivision Type3: | Town |
Subdivision Name3: | Clayton |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Elevation Ft: | 778 |
Coordinates: | 43.38°N -90.7978°W |
Area Code: | 608 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 2760638 |
Yankeetown is an unincorporated community in the town of Clayton, Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States, approximately two miles southwest of Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin on Wisconsin Highway 131.
The cemetery there (still extant) was established around 1861; it is the oldest in the town of Clayton. In 1870 there was a schoolhouse there, which was used for services by a newly organized congregation of the Disciples of Christ.[1]
William Henry Evans, a farmer, lawyer, and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, lived in Yankeetown.[2]
The Yankeetown post office ceased to be listed in the Wisconsin Blue Book as of the 1883 edition.