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Juda is an unincorporated census-designated place located in the town of Jefferson, in Green County, Wisconsin, United States. Juda is five miles east of Monroe along state highways 11 and 81. As of the 2020 census, its population was 340, down from 357 at the 2010 census. Juda is a part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area. On March 30, 1967, nine students from Juda's Union High School, all girls, were killed when a Delta Air Lines DC-8 jet crashed into the motel where they had been staying during a senior class trip to New Orleans, Louisiana.
Its first post office opened in 1848. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 357 to 340 (-5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
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What they wrote about Juda in 1877
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only by lawyers and scribes, for, as the postoffice department refused to change the name of the office to Springfield, the people have refused to call the village anything but Juda. Soon after Springfield, or Juda, was platted, a number of enterprising business men were numbered among those interested in her improvement. Prominent among these were Messrs. Axtell, Sherman, J. C.
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The villages of Jefferson are two — Juda, in the northeast corner, and Twin Grove, almost in the centre of the township. Jehu Chadwick entered, sold, and bought back again the land on which Juda is built, after which he sold several lots and gave lots for a cemeterv and Baptist church. The first building there was a log school house, called, for the old home of the settlers, the Pennsylvania school house. The first person buried
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Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
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