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Monroe, Wisconsin Official seal of Monroe, Wisconsin Location in Green County and the state of Wisconsin.
Location in Green County and the state of Wisconsin.
State Wisconsin Monroe, known as "the Swiss Cheese Capital of the USA", is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Green County, Wisconsin, United States.
The town/city is bordered by the Town of Monroe to the north and the Town of Clarno to the south.
4.1 Wisconsin State Highways According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.83 square miles (12.51 km2), all of it land. The Monroe School District is the biggest school precinct in Green County, serving around 2,700 students, and having an open enrollment procedure.
The school precinct maintains Monroe High School, home of the Cheesemakers in the Badger Conference, Monroe Middle School, Abraham Lincoln Accelerated Learning Academy, Parkside Elementary School, and Northside Elementary School.
Wisconsin State Highways WIS 11.svg WIS 11 runs around Monroe on the bypass.
WIS 59.svg WIS 59 ends in the northeast corner of the town/city near the Monroe Clinic.
WIS 69.svg WIS 69 runs on the bypass for 1 mile with WIS 81 and WIS 11.
WIS 81.svg WIS 81 runs around Monroe on the bypass.
Monroe Municipal Airport (KEFT) serves the town/city and encircling communities.
Badger State Trail Runs from Madison through Fitchburg past the Ice Age National Scenic Trail Montrose segment, Belleville, New Glarus, and crosses the Sugar River Trail before reaching Monroe, and then continues to meet with the Jane Adams Trail at the Illinois border which continues to Freeport, Illinois.
Wisconsin and Southern Railroad serves the town/city with freight service.
Monroe's parks include Twining Park, where the city's Swiss bandshell is located; Recreation Park, home to the town/city swimming pool; and Honey Creek Park, the site of a skate park.
The town/city is the easterly starting point for the Cheese Country Trail, a 47-mile multi-purpose recreational path, and the Badger State Trail, a bicycle and pedestrian-only trail in summer and an ATV/snowmobile trail in winter.
The "Cheese Trail" extends from Mineral Point to Monroe, while the Badger State Trail runs from the state line to Madison and joins to the Jane Addams Trail in Illinois.
Monroe is also home to Stateline Ice and Community Expo (S.L.I.C.E.), the only indoor ice-rink in Green County.
"Population Estimates".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
History of Green County, Wisconsin.
'Wisconsin Blue Book 1883,' Biographical Sketch of John Bolender, pg.
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin.
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The Wisconsin Blue Book 1964.
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Wisconsin State Legislature.
Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library.
The Wisconsin Blue Book 1956.
Madison: State of Wisconsin, 1956, p.
The Blue Book The State of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library.
The Wisconsin Blue Book 1948.
Madison: State of Wisconsin, 1948, p.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin.
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin.
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Municipalities and communities of Green County, Wisconsin, United States
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Cities in Wisconsin - Cities in Green County, Wisconsin - Micropolitan areas of Wisconsin - County seats in Wisconsin - Swiss-American culture in Wisconsin
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