NOTE March 23, 2024: I am currently in the process of rewriting this page, so eventually this page will be at least somewhat presentable. I plan on eventually splitting this page off into separate pages given how many towns issued plates, though for the time being I'm just converting the current page over into the new format for plate data.

Bicycle license plates have been issued in various towns and cities throughout the state of Wisconsin, with the first plates being issued around the mid-1930s. Several formats of plates were issued throughout the years, ranging from strips mounted to the bicycle to various strange sizes to the famous "Waupun" plate style that most towns eventually adopted around the 1950s. Most towns stopped issuing bicycle plates around the 1980s and 1990s, though some towns have been observed issuing plates to 2009 and stickers on plates through at least 2016.

Currently, this page is not an exhaustive list of towns known to issue plates, but rather a collection of whatever information I currently have on here. I will be adding the rest of the known towns and plates in the near future, including my own hometown which isn't shown on here yet.

The page will also be split off once the page starts to get larger; I'm unsure of whether a county sorted system or an alphabetical system would be better, though I'm personally leaning towards the county system for easy navigation of local plates.

Click on a county to view bicycle plates from that county:

Wisconsin county map; see list of counties if this image doesn't load
Image from awmcphee on Wikimedia Commons

You may also view an alphabetical list of jurisdictions that issued bicycle plates in Wisconsin.

Old color table codes that are currently being replaced:
-- continues to next year
- sticker

The new tables are a combination of color and serial range tables. "Base" refers to a specific plate issued, while "stickers" are either revalidation stickers issued to the base plate or standalone stickers that act as a kind of plate. Sticker entries with a base plate shown to the left are stickers issued to that plate, while sticker entries with no base table cell next to it and a serial range cell are standalone stickers issued to the bicycles themselves. Uncolored standalone sticker cells without a base cell entry are stickers issued to unknown bases.

Here are some examples to better illustrate this:

A base plate with a sticker issued to it:

Base Variation Ranges Stickers
77 78 7640
7845		 80

A standalone sticker issued to the bicycle:

Base Variation Ranges Stickers
0030 Und.

Sticker with unknown issuance:

Base Variation Ranges Stickers
80

Appleton

Base Variation Ranges
38
39
40
19 41
42
45
47
48
49
19 50
51
52
19 53
54
56
19 58
19 59
19 60
19 61
19 62
19 63
19 64
19 65
66
67 68
69 70
71 72
73 74

Athens

Base Variation Ranges
56
67 68 20

Baraboo

Baraboo license plates haven't been confirmed before 1974. Plates were dated for two different years.

Base Variation Ranges
73 74
75 76
77 78
79 80
81 82

Beaver Dam

Base Variation Ranges Stickers
39 5
406
40 25
190
41 190
506
51 52
56 57 532
64 65
67 68
68 69 2232
70 71 1257
1976
71 72
72 73 330
2356
73 74 777
3775
74 75 1171
2764
77 78 2254
3312
78 81 Dated 35
6558		 83
Undated 8000
11850		 85
87

Bloomer

Base Variation Ranges Stickers
66 67 228
70 71 49
379
71 72 485
73 74 208
723
74 75 534
75 76
76 78 1097
1098
78 80 546
778
80 82
82 84 415
1126
84 86 519
844
86 88 260
802
88 89 23
1009		 90

Brookfield

Base Variation Ranges
57
58 59
62 63
64 65
65
66 67
68 69
70 71
72 73
74 75
76 77
78 79
80 81
81 82
82 83

Burlington

Base Variation Ranges Stickers
63 64
71 72
77 78
81 82 42
1983		 83 84

Cleveland

Base Variation Ranges
71 72
72 73
74 75

Elm Grove

Base Variation Ranges
59
61 63
19 64 5
19 65 64
66 67
68 69 1761
70 71 439
72 73 428
74 75 198
1985
76 77 252
78 79 772
80 81 183
810
82 83 340
423

Fennimore

Base Variation Ranges
66 68
71 72
73 74
75 76 468
77 78 436
79 80
81 82 41

Fond Du Lac

Base Variation Ranges Stickers
1937 805
38
39 1493
1944
40-41 1058
41-42
42 43
1943
19 44		 77
2393
44 45 110
2371
45 46 444
1716
46 47 94
2345
47 48 2928
3333
48 49 3579
51 637
1657
53
55
57
61
63 2049
65 1140
67
19 69 3890
71 34
2789
19 73 633
7016
19 75 496
8138
19 76 Dated 202
3763		 1979
Undated 15286
19 81 1518
8766
19 83 3605
11033
Und 1210
18343

Genoa City

Base Variation Ranges
58 59 49
66 67 186
19 67 120
19 70 122
125
71
72

Green Bay

Base Variation Ranges
1940 1566
3896
1941 1780
5947
1942-3 1256
6346
1943 2539
4774
19 44 222
45
19 46 2452
3224
19 47 427
19 50 1397
19 51 1243
54
55
56
19 57 1379
7439
19 58 7446
60 59 9587
63 64 335
11058
65 66 11681
15485
67 68 7958
69 70 436
13913
71 72 2973
10523
72 73 4860
73 74 865
20472
75 76 1979
21603
76 77
77 78 1996
16157

Hartford

Base Variation Ranges
19 48 448
19 49 448
19 50 448
19 52 106
62
19 67 137
19 68 379
19 69 915
19 70 506
19 71 602
19 72 122
918
73
19 74 962
1139
75 76 415
844
77 78 53
470
79 80 45
2197

La Crosse

Base Variation Ranges
42-43 608

Madison

Base Variation Ranges Stickers
40 41
41 42
42 43
43 44
44 45
45 46
46 47
47 48
48 49
49 50
50 51
51 52
52 53
53 54
54 55
55 56
57 58
58 59
59 60
60 61
61 62
62 63
63 64
64 65
65 66
66 67
67 68
68 69
69 70
19 71 10393
72
JUN 73 74
75
76
JUN 77 7326 ?
JUN 82 692 83
84
85 86
87

Mauston

Mauston bicycle license plates have been confirmed since 1968, and were issued until 1987.

Base Variation Ranges
67 68
68 69
70 71
71 72
72 73
73 74
74 75 333
75 76 333
76 77 333
77 78 33
372
78 79 33
333
79 80 33
333
80 81 33
333
81 82 33
333
82 83 33
333
83 84 33
333
84 85 33
333
85 86 345
86 87 33
87 88 33
300

Menominee Falls

Base Variation Ranges
63 64
65 66
67 68
69 70
71 72
73 74
JUN 77
JUN 79
JUN 81

Mequon

Base Variation Ranges Stickers
? 72 74
76
79
Und.

Milwaukee

Base Variation Ranges
1938
1939
40
41
42
19 43
19 44
19 45
46
47
48
49
19 50 11279
19 51
52
53
19 54
55 56
57 58
59 60
61
63
APR 65
APR 67
APR 69
APR 71
73
APR 75
APR 80
82
84
APR 86
APR 90
94

Mondovi

Base Variation Ranges
47
49
62 63
76 77
78 79
80 81

Mukwonago

Mukwonago is notable for having dated plates issued at least until 2009

Base Variation Ranges Stickers
64 65
70 71
72 73
74 75 76
78
79
80
81
85
86
87
88
92
95
96 97
98
08 09

Muskego

Muskego plates are confusing, yet interesting. Multiple different baseplates were in use at any given time, complicating my table. They also used just a lonely year in 1993, with just a "93" at the right.

Base Variation Ranges Stickers
54 55
69 70 550
71 72 814
73 74
76
77 78 291
2571		 79 80
79 80
81 84 1550
1551		 85 89
83 84
86 89 4081
4352
93 386
903

North Prarie

Base Variation Ranges Stickers
Und. 0030
0030 Und.

Oak Creek

Base Variation Ranges
68 69
Und.

Oconomowoc

Base Variation Ranges
41
19 42
19 48
52
59
19 62
63 64
65 66
66 67
69 70
71 72
73 74
75 76
77 78
79 80
81 82

Oshkosh

Base Variation Ranges Stickers
42 43
45 46
47 48
49
51 52
53 54
55 56
57 58
59 60
61 62
63 64
65 66
67 68
69 70
71 72
73 74
77 78 7640
7845		 80
Und.

Port Edwards

Base Variation Ranges
64
68 69
70 71
72 73
74 75
78
82
Und.

Prarie Du Chien

Base Variation Ranges
64

Racine

37 39 40
41 42 42 43 43 44 45 46 46 47 48 49
50 51 51 52 53 54 55 57 57 59 59--
61
74 75 76 77-

Serial ranges:

50 51 2698

Reedsburg

Base Variation Ranges
64

Rice Lake

Base Variation Ranges
45 46
61 62
63 64
67 68
71 72
73 74

Richland Center

Base Variation Ranges
53 54
57 58
71 73
77 79
79 81
81 83 1033
83 85
89 91

Shawano

Base Variation Ranges
40
41
42
47
60 61
62 63
64 65
66 67
68 69
69 70
72 73
74 75
76 77
Und.

Sheboygan

Base Variation Ranges
42
49
55
57
58
19 59
19 60
61
62
19 63
64
65
66
67
68 69
70 71
72 73
74 76

Shorewood

Shorewood plates are notable for being super confusing. They had seemingly random changes to their replacement cycles multiple times, and not much is known on early plates, forcing me to guess that they were yearly plates. On top of that, there are "April" variations from the mid-70s onward, and not much is known on their years, either. To complicate things further, there is also normal variations mixed in with the April variation.

Base Variation Ranges
38 39
39 40
40 41
42 43
44-45
45 46
46 47
53 54
55 56
56 57
57 58
58 59
59 60
60 61
62 63
64 65
66 67
69 70
70 71
71 72
APR 74
APR 80
80 82
APR 82
APR 84

Steven's Point

Base Variation Ranges
43
44
45
19 46
48
49
50
51
52
53
19 54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
19 74
75 76
77 78
79 80
81 82 82 83
83 84
85

Two Rivers

Base Variation Ranges
48 50
58 60
60 62
64 65
66 67
68 69
70 71
72 73
74 75
Und.

Waukesha

Base Variation Ranges
39
41
50
19 55
60 61
64 65
66 67
68 69
70 71
72 73
74 75
78 79 80 81
84
Und.

Waupaca

Base Variation Ranges
46 47
49
50
51 52
19 60
69 70
71
73
80 81
82 83
84 85

Waupun

Base Variation Ranges
69 71
71 73
73 75
75 77
78 79
80 81
82 83
84 85
86 87
88 89
90 91

Wauwatosa

Base Variation Ranges

West Allis

Base Variation Ranges

West Bend

Base Variation Ranges

Wisconsin Dells

Base Variation Ranges

Wisconsin Rapids

Base Variation Ranges
Created October 17, 2019. Updated March 22, 2024.