{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Riley, Wisconsin |settlement_type = [[Unincorporated area|Unincorporated community]] |nickname = |motto =

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==History== A post office called Riley was established in 1882, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1940.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=WI&county=Dane&searchtext=&pagenum=5 | title=Dane County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=26 March 2015}}</ref> The community was named for the Riley brothers, land owners.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA118|year=1908|page=118}}</ref>

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{{Dane County, Wisconsin}}

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[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Dane County, Wisconsin]] [[Category:Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin]]

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