{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Allen, Wisconsin |settlement_type = Unincorporated community
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<!-- Area/postal codes & others --> |area_codes = 715 & 534 |blank_name = GNIS feature ID |blank_info = 1560767<ref name="gnis"/> |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |footnotes = }} '''Allen''' is an unincorporated community in the town of Clear Creek in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States.<ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis|1560767|Allen, Wisconsin}}</ref><ref>[http://wisconsin.hometownlocator.com/wi/eau-claire/allen.cfm Allen, Wisconsin]</ref> It lies almost exactly midway between Cleghorn and Foster, at the southern junction of Eau Claire County Highways "D" and "V".
The town was built in 1913-1915 when the Fairchild and Northeastern Railroad passed through the community and a depot was built. The town was named after Charles Levi Allen, a commercial farmer who owned the land upon which the town was platted. <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.usgennet.org/usa/wi/county/eauclaire/history/ourstory/vol5/names.html |title=Our Story, Vol V - Communities draw names from men, places, events<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=May 10, 2006 |archive-date=September 28, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050928180921/http://www.usgennet.org/usa/wi/county/eauclaire/history/ourstory/vol5/names.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://eauclaire.wigenweb.org/histories/1949eccorural/allen.htm History of the Allen School District]
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Allen Category:Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
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