Pray 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 ...

located in the town of

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, Jackson County,

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, United States. The community is named after Herman H. Pray (b. 1835). In 1877, Pray was appointed the local postmaster, and the office was named after him.Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties, Wisconsin
p. 178 (1891) City Point Township 1914

The community is centered on the intersection of Pray Road and Old Highway 54 along the

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line, where it used to be a train stop. The community is located east of

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and west of Spaulding along the rail line (also former rail stops),Specht, Ray and Ellen
The Story of Green Bay and Western
(October 1966) (map lists Spaulding, Pray, and Waterbury as among "abandoned" stations on the line. Per this 1966 map, the nearest current stations on the line were Merrillan to the west and

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to the east) and about 2.5 miles north of the current alignment of Wisconsin Highway 54,Soil Survey of Jackson County Wisconsin
p. 13 (1923) which was completed in 1953.
Wisconsinhighways.com, Retrieved 12 November 2018

Notes

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