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Monroe County, Wisconsin

Monroe County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Sparta
Year Organized: 1854
Square Miles: 901
Court House:

202 S. K Street
County Courthouse
Sparta, WI 54656-2187

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named in honor of President James Monroe - Gannett, Place Names, p. 182.

[Source: Kellogg, Louise Phelps. "Derivation of County Names" in Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for 1909, pages 219-231.]

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Monroe County, created in 1854 from La Crosse County, is named after James Monroe, the 5th President of the United States. Located in southwest Wisconsin, the county seat is Sparta.


MONROE.--Population 2,151.
From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855
pg. 85-86

Formed out of La Crosse in 1854. It is watered by the heads of the Kickapoo, La Crosse and Lemonwier Rivers. Forests of pine are about the sources of the Kickapoo, which are yet scarcely broken in upon. The settlements are few and small, and the land mostly unsold.


There is much good furming land, though most of it is of light soil, and will be rejected till other lands are occupied. It lies in the La Crosse land district.

Sparta, the County Seat, at the junction of Beaver Creek and La Crosse River, 30 miles from La Crosse, contains a population of about 700, and is still rapidly increasing. It has a good water power, and like all other new places, schools, public houses, stores &c., are there.

Jackson, on the Lemonwier, has been but recently laid out, and has a valuable mill privilege, in which the proprietor is erecting saw mills, white pine abounding in its vicinity.


Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 908 square miles (2,352 kmē), of which, 901 square miles (2,333 kmē) of it is land and 8 square miles (19 kmē) of it (0.83%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

  • Jackson County - north
  • Juneau County - east
  • Vernon County - south
  • La Crosse County - west

Cities and Towns:

- Adrian town
- Angelo town
- Cashton village Incorporated Area
- Grant town
- Kendall village Incorporated Area
- La Grange town
- Leon town
- Lincoln town
- Melvina village Incorporated Area
- New Lyme town
- Norwalk village Incorporated Area
- Oakdale village Incorporated Area
- Portland town
- Ridgeville town
- Sparta (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Tomah city Incorporated Area
- Warrens village Incorporated Area
- Wellington town
- Wells town
- Wilton village Incorporated Area
- Wyeville village Incorporated Area

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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."
 
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