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History · Middle Inlet

Middle Inlet’s post office opened in 1890

Most of Middle Inlet was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1982. Below: maps from 1982 on.

1890first post office
0on the National Register
6%homes built before 1940
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How Middle Inlet began

When was Middle Inlet founded?

1890

The Middle Inlet post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 851136 years
Founding year: the first Middle Inlet post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Middle Inlet’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Middle Inlet are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Middle Inlet, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Middle Inlet yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Middle Inlet is a town in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 851 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1890. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 840 in 2010, 851 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Middle Inlet, 1890 to 1982

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1890Post officeThe Middle Inlet post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1974Post officeThe Middle Inlet post office closes
  5. 1982On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Middle Inlet on the map in 1982

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Middle Inlet.

Middle Inlet on the 1982 USGS map1982Wausaukee South sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Middle Inlet.

Famous people

Famous people close to Middle Inlet

Nobody well known was born in Middle Inlet itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Lyle MaysAmerican jazz musician · b. 1953
Dan HaggertyAmerican actor · b. 1942
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Arthur GardnerProducer and actor from the United States · b. 1910
Tom PetriAmerican politician · b. 1940
John HubleyAmerican animation director, art director, prod… · b. 1914
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Judy NeratAmerican politician · b. 1948
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Middle Inlet had its own post office from 1890 to 1974.

Middle Inlet
1890–1974
18901960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Sweetheart City
Gone or out of use
Brookdale SchoolschoolPopple Grove SchoolschoolShanebrook Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Middle Inlet
Pinehill

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

LakeIts storyC+Wausaukee1 historic placeC+StephensonIts storyC−WagnerIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Middle Inlet’s history

What year was Middle Inlet founded?

The Middle Inlet post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.