Werley, Wisconsin

Werley, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 43°01′10″N90°45′55″W / 43.01944°N 90.76528°W / 43.01944; -90.76528 Coordinates: 43°01′10″N90°45′55″W / 43.01944°N 90.76528°W / 43.01944; -90.76528
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Grant
Town	Mount Ida
Elevation	235 m (771 ft)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)	608
GNIS feature ID	1577875 [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. "Werley, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
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
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.