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.Werley populated place profile; hometown locator.com
There used to be a narrow gauge railway run by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway which ran nearby.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
Werley was named after local settler and legislator Gottlieb Wehrle, whose name was pronounced "Werley" by the local residents. "Term: Werley [origin of place name]" Dictionary of Wisconsin History. The community used to be called Climbing Rock.
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