page_title: Platteville, Wisconsin
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Platteville, Wisconsin / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: Platteville_Municipal_Airport entrance
context_page_description: Platteville is the largest city in Grant County in southwestern Wisconsin. The population was 11,224 at the 2010 census, growing 12% since the 2000 Census. Much of this growth is likely due to the enrollment increase of the University of Wisconsin–Platteville. It is the principal city of the Platteville Micropolitan Statistical area, which has an estimated population of 49,681.
context_section_description: Platteville Municipal Airport (KPVB) serves the city and surrounding communities.
  Platteville no longer has railroad service.  It was previously served by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad (C&NW) via an 8-mile branch off the Montfort Junction to Galena line at Ipswich.  The line entered Platteville from the east-southeast and curved around to the north.  The line then joined the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific (Milwaukee Road). This in effect created a large 180° curve in the southeastern part of Platteville where the mines, depots and other rail-dependent industries were located. The Milwaukee Road branch continued on to the ENE then east for 17 miles where it branched off another Milwaukee Road branch line to Mineral Point at the town of Calamine.
  Passenger service ended on the C&NW in 1951 and was replaced by mixed train service on the Milwaukee Road in 1952.  Freight service continued on the Milwaukee Road until 1974 when the line was abandoned and pulled up.  It left the C&NW moving only a few cars per week which applied to abandon the route.  The abandonment was granted in 1980 and the line was pulled up forever ending railroad service to Platteville.
caption: Entrance to Platteville Municipal Airport.
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