Menomonie is a city in and the county seat of Dunn County in the western allowance of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The city’s population was 16,843 as of the 2020 census.

Named for the original inhabitants of the area, the Menominee, the city forms the core of the United States Census Bureau’s Menomonie Micropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which includes all of Dunn County (2010 population: 43,857). The Menomonie MSA and the Eau Claire–Chippewa Falls metropolitan area to the east form the Census Bureau’s Eau Claire-Menomonie Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The city middle is at the south decrease of Lake Menomin, a reservoir on the Red Cedar River.

The earliest known residents of the Place were people from the Trempealeau Hopewell Culture of the Middle Woodland Period (100–400 CE). Evidence from their culture includes a mound from the Wakanda Mounds Group in Wakanda Park, along the western shore of Lake Menomin. Most of these mounds are thought to be from Effigy Mound cultures from this times period. Artifacts from the Late Woodland Period (400–1000 CE) have with been uncovered. It is theorized that agricultural villages supported the population during summer months, transitioning to hunting and deposit from slip through spring. The bordering known population group is the Santee Dakota in the 1600s and 1700s, who engaged in conflicts following the Ojibwe people, who migrated west as refugees. Armed subsequent to European weapons, the Ojibwe pushed westward, eventually winning at the Battle of Kathio in 1770. The two tribes continued their warfare, eventually signing the 1825 First Treaty of Prairie du Chien, which made a affix between the two just north of Menomonie, with the Dakota claiming the southern lands.