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{{Infobox settlement
| official_name = Palmyra, Wisconsin
| settlement_type = [[Village]]
| nickname =
| motto = <!-- Images -->
| image_skyline = Palmyra Wisconsin Downtown Looking East.jpg
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| image_caption = Looking east at downtown Palmyra
| image_flag =
| image_seal = <!-- Maps -->
| image_map = File:Jefferson County Wisconsin Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Palmyra Highlighted.svg
| mapsize = 250px
| map_caption = Location of Palmyra in Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
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| map_caption1 = <!-- Location -->
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{flag|United States}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Wisconsin}}
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of counties in Wisconsin|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Jefferson County, Wisconsin|Jefferson]]
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| government_type = Village Board<br>(President - Trustees)
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| unit_pref = Imperial
| area_footnotes = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2019">{{cite web|title=2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2019_Gazetteer/2019_gaz_place_55.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=August 7, 2020}}</ref>
| area_magnitude =
| area_total_km2 = 5.71
| area_land_km2 = 5.58
| area_water_km2 = 0.13
| area_total_sq_mi = 2.21
| area_land_sq_mi = 2.15
| area_water_sq_mi = 0.05
<!-- Population -->| population_as_of = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
| population_est =
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| population_footnotes = <ref name ="wwwcensusgov"/>
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<!-- General information -->| timezone = [[North American Central Time Zone|Central (CST)]]
| utc_offset = -6
| timezone_DST = CDT
| utc_offset_DST = -5
| elevation_footnotes = <ref name="GNIS" />
| elevation_m =
| elevation_ft = 850
| coordinates = {{coord|42|52|46|N|88|35|54|W|region:US_type:city|display=inline,title}}
| postal_code_type =
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| area_code = [[Area code 262|262]]
| blank_name = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info = 55-61050<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=January 31, 2008|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref>
| blank1_name = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
| blank1_info = 1571003<ref name="GNIS">{{GNIS|1571003}}</ref>
| website = {{URL|www.villageofpalmyra.com}}
| footnotes =
| pop_est_footnotes = <ref name="USCensusEst2019CenPopScriptOnlyDirtyFixDoNotUse">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/tables.2019.html|date=May 24, 2020|title=Population and Housing Unit Estimates|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=May 27, 2020}}</ref>
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'''Palmyra''' is a village in [[Jefferson County, Wisconsin|Jefferson County]], [[Wisconsin]], United States, along the [[Scuppernong River (Wisconsin)|Scuppernong River]]. It was named after the desert oasis city of [[Palmyra]], [[Syria]], due to its dry, sandy soil.<ref name="Crook 1899 https://archive.org/details/mineralwatersun00croogoog/page/n537 539">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/mineralwatersun00croogoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/mineralwatersun00croogoog/page/n537 539]|quote=Palmyra Springs Sanitarium and Mineral Springs.|title=The Mineral Waters of the United States and Their Therapeutic Uses: With an Account of the Various Mineral Spring Localities, Their Advantages as Health Resorts, Means of Access, Etc., to which is Added an Appendix on Potable Waters|last=Crook|first=James King|date=1899|publisher=Lea Brothers & Company|language=en}}</ref>
==History==
The [[Palmyra (town), Wisconsin|Town of Palmyra]] was established in 1846. In 1876, part of the Town of Palmyra was incorporated as the village of Palmyra.<ref>[http://www.townofpalmyra.org The Town of Palmyra]</ref><ref>[http://www.villageofpalmyra.com The Village of Palmyra]</ref>
Palmyra was known for its [[mineral spring]]s. The [[Palmyra Springs Sanitarium]] was established in 1870, situated on what is known today as Lower Spring Lake. The sanitarium was a substantially built four-story brick structure containing spacious halls, wide verandas, and modern health and wellness accessories. The building contained facilities for the administration of various forms of electro-shock massage.<ref name="Crook 1899 https://archive.org/details/mineralwatersun00croogoog/page/n537 539"/> The rooms were spacious and luxuriously furnished, providing a variety of salt, shower, shampoo, natural mineral, Turkish, and Russian style baths. There was a large gymnasium, theater, music hall, billiard parlors, bowling alleys, archery and tennis courts. The surrounding forty-acre forest of native oaks was referred to as the Sanitarium Grove - today part of the Southern Kettle Moraine State Forest - which contained winding pedestrian paths and resting nooks. The sanitarium was one and half miles from a large spring known by name as the Aurelian Spring, the Great Geyser Spring, or the Big Blue Spring. It was 50 feet across, 38 feet deep, with a flow of clear crystal-blue water that was believed to have therapeutic remedial value.<ref name="Crook 1899 https://archive.org/details/mineralwatersun00croogoog/page/n537 539"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.palmyrahistorical.org/uploads/documents/12-2,%20Summer%20'90.pdf|title=Palmyra Historical Society 1990 Newsletter}}</ref> A dam and spillway was later built downstream of the Great Geyer Spring, forming what is today known as Blue Spring Lake. In 1924, the sanitarium became the Druggist's National Home, a home for aged and infirm druggists, but a few years later, interest in the therapeutic mineral treatments declined and the facility was closed. In the late 1950s, the building was
==Geography==
Palmyra is located at {{coord|42|52|37|N|88|35|13|W|type:city}} (42.87721, -88.587117).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the village has a total area of {{convert|1.25|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, of which {{convert|1.20|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is land and {{convert|0.05|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is water.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=US Gazetteer files 2010|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|
==Demographics==
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|2000= 1766
|2010= 1781
|2020= 1719
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
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===2010 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name ="wwwcensusgov">{{cite web|title=U.S. Census website|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|
There were 704 households, of which 35.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.0% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 33.4% were non-families. 26.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.04.
The median age in the village was 37.2 years. 25.4% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 26.9% were from 25 to 44; 26% were from 45 to 64; and 12.9% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 49.9% male and 50.1% female.
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*[[Hiram J. Ball]], farmer and Wisconsin state legislator<ref>'Wisconsin Blue Book 1878,' Biographical Sketch of Hiram J. Ball, pg. 472-473</ref>
*[[Justin Beaver]], college football player for the [[University of Wisconsin-Whitewater]]
*[[Gary Congdon]], racing driver
*[[Susan Hawk]], Survivor, Season One, Borneo<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/cast/20515|title=Susan - Survivor Cast Member|website=[[CBS]] }}</ref>
*[[Adoniram J. Holmes]], congressman from [[Iowa]]
*[[Knute Nelson]], U.S. senator from [[Minnesota]]
*[[Iva Bigelow Weaver]], soprano and music educator based in Milwaukee
*[[Frederick L. Wieseman]], U.S. Marine Lieutenant general
==Images==
<gallery>
File:Palmyra Wisconsin
File:Palmyra Wisconsin Post Office.jpg|Post office
File:Palmyra Wisconsin Welcome Sign WIS59.jpg|Welcome sign
File:Powers Memorial Library Palmyra Wisconsin.jpg|Powers Memorial Library in Palmyra
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* [http://www.villageofpalmyra.com/ Village of Palmyra official website]
* [http://www.palmyrawi.org Palmyra Area Chamber of Commerce]
* Sanborn fire insurance maps: [http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/9198 1892] [http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/9042 1898] [http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/9201 1904] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140424045130/http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/9188 1919]
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