Hanover is an
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census-designated place
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located in the town of
Plymouth
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,
Rock County,
Wisconsin
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, United States. It is west of
Janesville and east of
Orfordville. As of the
2020 census, its population was 179.
History
Hanover was originally called Bass Creek.
The present name is after
Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
, Germany, the native home of a large share of the early settlers.
A post office was established as Bass Creek in 1856 and renamed Hanover in 1859; the post office closed in 2014.
Demographics
References
Census-designated places in Rock County, Wisconsin
Census-designated places in Wisconsin
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