Greenleaf is a village in
Brown County,
Wisconsin
Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig ...
, United States, in the town of
Wrightstown.
History
As of the
2010 census it had a population of 607.
Greenleaf was named for Emery B. Greenleaf, the general manager of the Milwaukee & Northern railroad at the time the Greenleaf post office was established in 1873.
Incorporation as a Village
In 2020, 800 residents of the community petitioned the state of Wisconsin to become a village.
The Wisconsin Incorporation Review Board denied the petition's "characteristics of the territory" requirement as the petition included 2 separate areas: one in the vicinity of a
roundabout
A roundabout, a rotary and a traffic circle are types of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is typically given to traffic already in the junct ...
of state highways
WIS 57
Wisconsin Highway 57 (often called Highway 57, STH-57 or WIS 57) is a state highway in Wisconsin, United States. It runs from its southern terminus at WIS 59 in Milwaukee to its northern terminus at WIS 42 in Sister Bay. Much ...
and
Wisconsin Highway 96
State Trunk Highway 96 (often called Highway 96, STH-96 or WIS 96) is a state highway (US), state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It runs east–west in east-central Wisconsin from near Fremont, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, Fremont to Denm ...
and another isolated area to the east of the
Niagara Escarpment
The Niagara Escarpment is an approximately discontinuous, arc-shaped but generally northward-facing escarpment, or cuesta, in Canada and the United States. The escarpment begins south of Lake Ontario and circumscribes the top of the Great Lake ...
.
The second area is isolated from the first by the escarpment, a quarry and vacant lands.
A revised proposal was approved on April 13, 2022.
Geography
It is located at the intersection of Wisconsin Highways
57/
32 and
96.
It uses
ZIP code 54126.
Greenleaf has an area of , all of it land. The community is part of the
Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area.
References
Images
File:WisconsinHighway57atWisconsinHighway96a.jpg, Looking north at the intersection of Wisconsin Highways 57/32 and 96 in Greenleaf
File:GreenleafWisconsinDOTSign.jpg, The sign for Greenleaf
File:GreenleafWisconsinPostOffice.jpg, Greenleaf Post office
File:GreenleafWisconsinDowntownWIS96.jpg, Looking east at Greenleaf along WIS 96
File:GreenleafWisconsinFireDepartmentWIS96.jpg, Greenleaf Fire department
Census-designated places in Brown County, Wisconsin
Greenleaf
Green Bay metropolitan area
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