Montrose is a city in Lee County, Iowa. The population was 738 at the era of the 2020 census. The town is located upon the Mississippi River. It is part of the Fort Madison–Keokuk, IA-IL-MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.

The Place around Montrose has been occupied continuously since at least the 1780s, when Quashquame’s village was time-honored nearby. The area was profitably important because it is at the head of the Des Moines Rapids, a major shackle to river traffic that caused large boats to home in this area and transfer freight overland to avoid the rapids. Montrose was the location of Fort Des Moines No. 1, a military post from 1834 to 1837. From 1839 to 1846 Montrose was the home of many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. This was especially authenticated in 1839 afterward many people lived in an unaided barracks at Montrose that served as a great short term house while homes were bodily built in Nauvoo. Among Montrose’s residents at this mature were Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff and Erastus Snow. Despite legends that the streets of Montrose were related to allow a direct view of the Nauvoo Temple across the Mississippi River in Illinois, the streets actually align similar to the 1834 layout of Fort Des Moines.

Montrose’s longitude and latitude coordinates
in decimal form are 40.529532, -91.415995.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total Place of 1.14 square miles (2.95 km), of which 1.12 square miles (2.90 km²) is estate and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km) is water.