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Metomen is a town in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 689 at the 2020 census. The villages of Fairwater and Brandon, the unincorporated community of Metomen, and the ghost town of Reeds Corners are also located in the town.
Its first post office opened in 1852. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 741 to 689 (-7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
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The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin1880 · page 325Read the page →
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Silver Creek has its source in a spring which is the largest in Fond du Lac County, situated on the farm of Almon Osborn, in Section 2, in the town of Metomen, and in another very large spring on M. Hargraves' farm on Section 1, in the town of Metomen. It flows to the westward through the city of Ripon, where it makes a rapid descent and furnishes a strong, though limited, water-power, into Green Lake. It turns, during a large portion of the year Dellinger's and Bateman's flouring-mills, in the city of Ripon, and Strong's and Crawford's mills, in the town of Ripon.
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The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin1880 · page 320Read the page →
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St. Peters Sandstone. — Upon the wavy and irregular surface of the lower magnesian limestone, rests the St. Peters sandstone. It is the only sandstone which outcrops in the county, and then only in two towns, in Section 31, town of Metomen, and in the town of Ripon, west and north of the city of Ripon. In Section 17, it is cut through by the Sheboygan & Fond du Lac Railroad, and in Section 9 by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.
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The history of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, containing ... war record, biographical sketches ... history of Wisconsin ... etc1880 · page 762Read the page →
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Metomen is the other railroad station in the township, besides Brandon. It has no business Ifouses, stores, shops or manufactories. The post office is in official charge of Mrs. E. Reynolds.
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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 →
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