Werley, Wisconsin

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Werley, Wisconsin
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Coordinates: 43°01′10″N90°45′55″W / 43.01944°N 90.76528°W / 43.01944; -90.76528
Country Flag of the United States.svg United States
State Flag of Wisconsin.svg Wisconsin
County Grant
Town Mount Ida
Elevation
235 m (771 ft)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 608
GNIS feature ID1577875 [1]

Werley is an unincorporated community in the town of Mount Ida, Grant County, Wisconsin, United States, at latitude 43.019 and longitude -90.765, where Star Lane feeds into County Road K, roughly five miles west-northwest of Fennimore. [1] [2]

There used to be a narrow gauge railway run by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway which ran nearby. [3]

Werley was named after local settler and legislator Gottlieb Wehrle, whose name was pronounced "Werley" by the local residents. [4] The community used to be called Climbing Rock. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Werley, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Werley populated place profile; hometown locator.com
  3. Hazen, Floyd Willard. Floyd Hazen's History of Werley, Wisconsin and the "Dinky Railroad", C & NW RY: An Anthology of the "Werley Nickel Plate" Fennimore, Wisconsin: Steven Hazen, 2003
  4. "Term: Werley [origin of place name]" Dictionary of Wisconsin History.Archived October 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 137.