Janesville

Janesville is a city in with agricultural and manufacturing roots that, in its heyday, boasted GM and Parker Pen plants, and is known as "Wisconsin's Park Place" with the highest urban acreage of parkland per capita in Wisconsin.
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  • Type: City with 65,600 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Rock County, Wisconsin, United States
  • Also known as: “Black Hawk”, “City of Janesville”, “Ciudad de Janesville”, “E-nee-poro-poro”, “Janesville (Wisconsin)”, “Janesville, WI”, “Janesville, Wisconsin”, “Jannesville”, “جاينسفيل (مقاطعة روك)”, “جاينسفيل، ويسكونسن”, and “簡思薇爾”
  • Postal codes: 53545-53547

Places of Interest

Highlights: Rotary Botanical Gardens and Hedberg Public Library.

Garden
Photo: Chief-O, Public domain.
is a non-profit 20-acre botanical garden located at 1455 Palmer Drive in Janesville, Wisconsin, that is open to the public.

Library
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a public library located in Janesville, Wisconsin. The library is a member of the Prairie Lakes Library System.

Museum
Photo: Sa magnuson33, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a historic Italianate-style house in Janesville, Wisconsin. Built and constructed in 1857 by the Tallman family, the house once hosted overnight guest Abraham Lincoln before he became U.S. president.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Anderson.

Hamlet
The Town of Janesville is a civil township in , , United States. The population was 3,665 at the 2020 census. The City of Janesville is southeast of and adjacent to the town.

Janesville

Latitude
42.683° or 42° 40′ 59″ north
Longitude
-89.0227° or 89° 1′ 22″ west
Population
65,600
Elevation
837 feet (255 metres)
IATA airport code
JVL
UN/LOCODE
US JVL
Open location code
86JGMXMG+5W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29941173
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5257754
Wiki­data ID
Q257536
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Janesville” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جاينسفيل”
  • Arabic: “جينسفيل”
  • Asturian: “Janesville”
  • Basque: “Janesville”
  • Belarusian: “Джэйнсвіл”
  • Bengali: “জেন্সভিলি”
  • Catalan: “Janesville”
  • Cebuano: “Janesville”
  • Chechen: “Джейнсвиль”
  • Chinese: “珍妮斯维尔”
  • Chinese: “简斯维尔”
  • Chinese: “簡斯維爾”
  • Czech: “Janesville”
  • Danish: “Janesville”
  • Dutch: “Janesville”
  • Finnish: “Janesville”
  • French: “Janesville”
  • Georgian: “ჯეინსვილი”
  • German: “Janesville”
  • Gilaki: “جینزويل (ويسکانسين)”
  • Gilaki: “جینزويل”
  • Greek: “Τζέινσβιλ”
  • Gujarati: “જેન્સવિલ”
  • Haitian: “Janesville, Wisconsin”
  • Haitian: “Janesville”
  • Hebrew: “ג’נסוויל”
  • Hindi: “जानसविले”
  • Hungarian: “Janesville”
  • Indonesian: “Janesville”
  • Irish: “Janesville”
  • Italian: “Janesville”
  • Japanese: “ジェーンズヴィル”
  • Japanese: “ジェーンズビル”
  • Kannada: “ಜೇನ್ಸ್ವಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Korean: “제인스빌”
  • Korean: “제인즈빌”
  • Ladin: “Janesville”
  • Latvian: “Džeinsvila”
  • Lithuanian: “Džeinsvilis”
  • Malay: “Janesville”
  • Marathi: “जेन्सविल”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Janesville”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Janesville”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Janesville”
  • Norwegian: “Janesville”
  • Persian: “جینسویل، ویسکانسین”
  • Persian: “جینسویل”
  • Piemontese: “Janesville”
  • Polish: “Janesville”
  • Portuguese: “Janesville”
  • Romanian: “Janesville, Wisconsin”
  • Romanian: “Janesville”
  • Russian: “Джейнсвилл”
  • Serbian: “Џејнсвил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Janesville, Wisconsin”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Janesville”
  • Sinhala: “ජේන්ස්විල්”
  • Slovak: “Janesville”
  • Slovenian: “Janesville”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جینسویل، ویسکانسین”
  • Spanish: “Janesville”
  • Swedish: “Janesville, Wisconsin”
  • Swedish: “Janesville”
  • Talysh: “Čejnsvill”
  • Talysh: “Ceynsvill”
  • Tamil: “ஜெனீஸ்வில்லீ”
  • Tatar: “Джейнсвиль (Висконсин)”
  • Tatar: “Джейнсвиль”
  • Telugu: “జాన్స్విల్లే”
  • Thai: “เจนส์วิลล์”
  • Turkish: “Janesville, Wisconsin”
  • Turkish: “Janesville”
  • Ukrainian: “Джейнсвіль”
  • Urdu: “جنسویل، وسکونسن”
  • Urdu: “جنسویل”
  • Uzbek: “Janesville”
  • Vietnamese: “Janesville, Wisconsin”
  • Vietnamese: “Janesville”
  • Volapük: “Janesville”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Janesville, Wisconsin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Janesville”
  • Welsh: “Janesville, Wisconsin”
  • Welsh: “Janesville”

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