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Lena is a village in Oconto County in northeastern Wisconsin, located within the Town of Lena and counted as part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The village was originally known as Maple Valley, and its first settler family was that of French-Swiss immigrant Étienne Clement Roserens and his French-Canadian wife Vitaline, who established a homestead there in October 1872.

Lena got its present name in 1879, when Oconto postmaster George R. Hall, asked to rename the post office because another Wisconsin office already used Maple Valley, submitted the first name of his future wife, Helena "Lena" Louisa McCartney.

Rosera Street in Lena is named after the Roserens family, and their daughter Anna Rosera Hendricks was the first white child born in the settlement.

Early settlers, many of them French Canadian, made their living from small-scale logging along Jones Creek, a tributary of the Little River, and settler Samuel King donated the land for the community's first schoolhouse.

Lena's first church, a Seventh-day Adventist church, was built in 1880, followed by a Catholic church in 1882 and a Methodist church in 1888.

Lena was incorporated as a village in 1921.

The population of Lena was 537 at the 2020 census, down slightly from 564 in 2010.

At the 2010 census Lena had 251 households, with an average household size of 2.25 people.