Melrose, IA

Melrose is a community in Monroe County, Iowa, United States. The 2020 census counted 110 residents. Melrose is known as Iowa's "Little Ireland". Melrose is part of Iowa's 3rd congressional district. Every year the city hosts an Independence Day celebration as a fundraiser for the Melrose Volunteer Fire Department. The event includes a parade, food, a frog race, tug of war, and concludes with a firework show. A newcomer can read Melrose through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Melrose comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Melrose was platted in 1866 when the railroad was built through that territory. Melrose hosts an Independence Day celebration as a fundraiser for the Melrose Volunteer Fire Department.