Nora is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located in the town of Cottage Grove,

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, United States. Nora is located on

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and

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west-southwest of Deerfield. Nora has existed since at least 1877, at which time it had a

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with tri-weekly mail service.

Notable people

* Henry G. Klinefelter, farmer and politician, lived in Nora.'Wisconsin Blue Book 1889,' Biographical Sketch of Henry G. Klinefelter, pg. 505

Notes

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