New Glarus
New Glarus is located in central-southern Wisconsin, in rural Green County. It is known as America's "Little Switzerland". The City was founded by Swiss immigrants from Glarus canton in 1845.Photo: TheCatalyst31, CC0.
- Type: Town with 2,170 residents
- Description: village in Green County, Wisconsin, United States
- Also known as: “New Glaris”, “New Glarus, WI”, “New Glarus, Wisconsin”, and “Village of New Glarus”
- Postal code: 53574
Places of Interest
Highlights include New Glarus Town Hall and Chalet of the Golden Fleece.
New Glarus Town Hall
Photo: Tgkrause, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The New Glarus Town Hall in New Glarus, Wisconsin, was built in 1886 to house both the town hall and a meeting place for the Ancient Order of United Workmen. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
Chalet of the Golden Fleece
Museum
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
The Chalet of the Golden Fleece is located in New Glarus, Wisconsin.
New Glarus Woods State Park
Nature reserve
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
New Glarus Woods State Park is a state park in Green County, Wisconsin, United States. The 431-acre park featuring rolling hills covered by a mix of forest and prairie just south of the village of New Glarus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Exeter.
Exeter
Hamlet
Exeter is a town in Green County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,261 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Dayton and Ross Crossing are located in the town. Exeter is situated 3 miles southeast of New Glarus.
New Glarus
- Categories: village of Wisconsin and locality
- Location: Green County, Southwest Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.8145° or 42° 48′ 52″ northLongitude
-89.6339° or 89° 38′ 2″ westPopulation
2,170Elevation
912 feet (278 metres)United Nations Location Code
US NXSOpen location code
86JGR978+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 437896168OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“New Glarus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نيو غلاروس”
- Armenian: “Նյու Գլաուս”
- Catalan: “New Glarus”
- Cebuano: “New Glarus”
- Chinese: “New Glarus”
- Chinese: “新格拉鲁斯”
- Dagbani: “New Glarus”
- Dutch: “New Glarus”
- French: “New Glarus”
- German: “New Glarus”
- Gilaki: “نيۊ گلارس (ويسکانسين)”
- Gilaki: “نيۊ گلارس”
- Haitian: “New Glarus, Wisconsin”
- Haitian: “New Glarus”
- Italian: “New Glarus”
- Ladin: “New Glarus”
- Latin: “Nova Glarona”
- Lithuanian: “Niu Glarusas”
- Luxembourgish: “New Glarus”
- Malagasy: “New Glarus, Wisconsin”
- Malagasy: “New Glarus”
- Min Nan Chinese: “New Glarus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “New Glarus (Wisconsin)”
- Norwegian: “New Glarus”
- Polish: “New Glarus”
- Portuguese: “New Glarus”
- Serbian: “Њу Гларус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “New Glarus, Wisconsin”
- Serbo-Croatian: “New Glarus”
- Spanish: “New Glarus (Wisconsin)”
- Spanish: “New Glarus”
- Swiss German: “New Glarus”
- Tosk Albanian: “New Glarus”
- Ukrainian: “Нью-Гларус”
- Vietnamese: “New Glarus, Wisconsin”
- Vietnamese: “New Glarus”
- Volapük: “New Glarus”
- “New Glarus”
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