Melrose is a community in Monroe County, Iowa, United States.

[citation needed] Melrose is part of Iowa’s 3rd congressional district.

[5][6] 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.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.01 square miles (2.62 km2), all land.

[12] The 1937 Melrose Shamrocks were the Iowa state high school basketball champions.

With an enrollment of only 66, the Shamrocks were the smallest school ever to win a single-class state basketball title in Iowa.

In 2012, the Des Moines Register recognized the Shamrocks as one of the ten best State tournament teams in Iowa history.

Walt O'Connor and Jim Thynne from the 1937 team and Donald Knowles, a 1942 Melrose graduate, were inducted into the Iowa High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.

[14] In May 2012, the Iowa House of Representatives officially congratulated the 1937 Melrose Shamrocks basketball team on the 75th anniversary of their championship.

In late 2012, the city of Melrose, erected a monument in the center of town honoring the 1937 basketball team and its selection in a Des Moines Register poll as the top team in the first 100 years of boys’ basketball in Iowa.