Valley Junction 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 Byron in Monroe County,

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, United States. It is located at the intersection of

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, Monroe County Trunk Highway G, and Monroe County Highway N. Valley Junction Wisconsin Sign Looking North WIS173

History

Valley Junction was named from its location in a valley at the junction of two roads. The post office had the name in 1900. Two railroads crossed in the center of town: the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway and the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway.Official Railroad Map of Wisconsin, 1900, Ninth Biennial edition, prepared under the direction of Graham L. Rice, Railroad commissioner. They maintained a joint station. The Milwaukee branch line between Tomah and Babcock is gone. The Omaha line remains as the Union Pacific Railroad line between the Twin Cities and Milwaukee.

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Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Wisconsin Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin {{MonroeCountyWI-geo-stub