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Coon Valley is a village in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 758 at the 2020 census. Coon Valley was hit by the floods ravaging Wisconsin in 2018.
Its first post office opened in 1865. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 765 in 2010, 758 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
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What they wrote about Coon Valley in 1884
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History of Vernon county, Wisconsin ..1884 · page 501Read the page →
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in Norway, in 1842, and was there educated In 1869 he emigrated to the United States and came direct to Vernon county. He located in the village of Coon Valley, and in 1882 rented a one-third interest in the flour and saw mill and mercantile trade, of which he is now the junior partner. The grist mill contains four run of buhr stones, has a capacity of fifty barrels of
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History of Vernon county, Wisconsin ..1884 · page 552Read the page →
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Bergen, Hamburg and Coon, and from the town of Coon and northeast into La Crosse county, (a population of about 1,400 souls) are members of the Coon Valley" Norwegian Lutheran congregations. These people worship at three different churches, known as the Upper Coon Valley, Middle Coon Valley and Lower Coon Valley. These three congregations, previous to
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History of Vernon County, Wisconsin, together with sketches of its towns, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history1884 · page 550Read the page →
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Bergen, Hamburg and Coon, and from the town of Coon and northeast into La Crosse county, (a population of about 1,400 souls) are members of the Coon Valley Norwegian Lutheran congregations. These people worship at three different churches, known as the Upper Coon Valley, Middle Coon Valley and Lower Coon Valley. These three congregations, previous to
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Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (4), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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