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History · Underhill

Underhill’s post office opened in 1888, and 25% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1956 on.

1888first post office
0on the National Register
25%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Underhill began

When was Underhill founded?

1888

The Underhill post office opened in 1888, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Linwood (1885), Mosling (1897) and Hintz (1898), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 864138 years
Founding year: the first Underhill post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Underhill’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 Underhill are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Underhill, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Underhill’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Underhill’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

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

Underhill had its own post office from 1888 to 1976. Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Linwood
1885–1888
Underhill
1888–1976
Mosling
1897–1929
Hintz
1898–1905
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
HintzMosling
Gone or out of use
Franks SchoolschoolSunny Lawn Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Underhill
Mosling LutheranUnderhill

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

The story

How Underhill came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Underhill.

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The Menominee call this place Kāēkāēaweqnikoniw, an archaic name meaning "crossing the portage". It falls within traditional Menominee territory which was ceded to the United States in the 1836 Treaty of the Cedars as part of the negotiations about how to accommodate the Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee and Brothertown peoples who had been removed from New York to Wisconsin. The town was later named in English after William Underhill, a white settler from Vermont. The town did have an operating post office established in 1888 until it was discontinued in 1976.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Underhill, 1885 to 1976

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1885Post officeThe Linwood post office opens
  3. 1888Post officeThe Linwood post office closes
  4. 1888Post officeThe Underhill post office opens
  5. 1897Post officeThe Mosling post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1929Post officeThe Mosling post office closes
  8. 1956On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  9. 1976Post officeThe Underhill post office closes
By decade

Underhill, decade by decade

Today4 recent
UnderhillWisconsinWest2011UnderhillWisconsinWestUnderhillWisconsinSouth2011UnderhillWisconsinSouthUnderhillWisconsinFireDepartment2011UnderhillWisconsinFireDepartmentUnderhillWisconsinCommunityCenter2011UnderhillWisconsinCommunityCenter
On the map

Underhill on the map, 1956 to 1984

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Underhill. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Underhill on the 1956 USGS mapUnderhill on the 1984 USGS map1956Gillett sheet · 1:62,500

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Underhill

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

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Ada DeerNative American activist, scholar, and civil se… · b. 1935
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Sheila TouseyAmerican actress · b. 1960
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Billy ReedMajor League Baseball secondbaseman · b. 1922
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Lee RemmelSportswriter, Green Bay Packers Public Relation… · b. 1924
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Marcus OliveiraAmerican boxer · b. 1979
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George BurnsideAmerican football player · b. 1899
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

GillettIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHowIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLegend LakeIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWashingtonIts storyCMenomineeIts storyDWescottIts storyC

Questions about Underhill’s history

What year was Underhill founded?

The Underhill post office opened in 1888, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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 Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikipedia, 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.