Bear Valley, Wisconsin
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Bear Valley is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in the town of
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Richland County, Wisconsin Richland County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,304. Its county seat is Richland Center. The county was created from the Wisconsin Territory in 1842 and organized in 1850. It is named f ...
, United States. About 1855, Peter W. Haskins of New York began to lay out lots and planned the village of Petersburg which was later named Bear Valley. A
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was established in 1858. Bear Valley was named for two nearby geographic features: Bear Creek and a nineteen mile long valley.


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Unincorporated communities in Richland County, Wisconsin Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin {{RichlandCountyWI-geo-stub