Madison, Wisconsin

MadTown, as it is called by many residents, is a small city. There are about 200,000 residents here. Add in 40,000 or so students and we come close to a quarter million. The presence of a Big 10 university and state government give the city a more metropolitan air than one would expect in a city this size. Our city has been rated as the best place in the nation to raise a child.

There are four lakes within the city limits. The Isthmus (a local weekly newspaper) Annual Manual tells us that the estimate for the number of fish caught in Lake Mendota in 1993 is 1,754,196. The oldest part of the city is on an isthmus between the two largest lakes. At some points, our city is less than a mile wide.

MadTown is the county seat of Dane County. Our county was named after Nathan Dane who signed the U.S. Constitution. The name has nothing to do with our large Scandinavian population. You can even find lutefisk in Dane county if you look. Dane County, by the way, is 21 square miles larger than Rhode Island.

Madison is the home of the University of Wisconsin, Edgewood College, Madison Area Technical College

Some other Madison Web Sites

The Primordial Soup Kitchen. Art without pretention (his computer does it).
The Capital of Wisconsin