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2000 Census Age Pyramid for Monroe County. As of the census [ 10 ] of 2000, there were 40,899 people, 15,399 households, and 10,794 families residing in the county. The population density was 45 people per square mile (17 people/km 2 ).
English: This is a locator map showing Monroe County in Wisconsin. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 13 February 2006: Source:
It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Monroe County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.
The claimed homestead could include the same land which they had previously filed a preemption claim (on up to 160 acres at $1.25 per acre, or up to 80 acres of subdivided and surveyed land at $2.50 per acre), and they could expand their current ownership to contiguous adjacent land up to 160 acres total.
The processing of the 1880 census data took so long (eight years) that the Census Bureau contracted Herman Hollerith to design and build a tabulating machine to be used for the next census. [8] [9] The 1880 census also led to the discovery of the Alabama paradox. Source: Table I, Population of the United States, by States and Territories [10]
Monroe is located in northwestern Adams County, along Petenwell Lake, a large reservoir on the Wisconsin River. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 38.5 square miles (99.6 km 2 ), of which 21.9 square miles (56.7 km 2 ) is land and 16.6 square miles (42.9 km 2 ), or 43.11%, is water.
As of the census [3] of 2010, there were 472 people, 198 households, and 133 families living in the village. The population density was 637.8 inhabitants per square mile (246.3/km 2 ). There were 233 housing units at an average density of 314.9 per square mile (121.6/km 2 ).
Although other towns had been founded in the lead region of Wisconsin prior to the land cession, Monroe, Wisconsin was one of the many communities founded in the mid-1830s after this land became legally open to settlement. [3] [4] [5] The county was created in 1837 from the Wisconsin Territory. [6]