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Dane County, Wisconsin

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
271historic places
—earliest paper
1836formed
561,504pop. 2020
141cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 271 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 11 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Madison, Stoughton, Monona.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Wisconsin is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Dane titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

165 of 271 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

271 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Agricultural Chemistry BuildingMadisonBuilding1985
Agricultural Dean's HouseMadisonBuilding1984
Agricultural Engineering BuildingMadisonBuilding1985
Agricultural Heating stationMadisonBuilding1985
Agriculture HallMadisonBuilding1985
American Exchange BankMadisonBuilding1980
American Tobacco Company Warehouses ComplexMadisonBuilding2003
Ames, Francis Marian, FarmsteadRutlandBuilding1992
Badger State Shoe CompanyMadisonBuilding1989
Bascom Hill Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1974
Bashford, Robert M., HouseMadisonBuilding1973
Baskerville Apartment BuildingMadisonBuilding1988
Bedrud-Olson FarmsteadChristianaBuilding1999
Belleville Illinois Central Railroad DepotBellevilleBuilding2016
Bellevue Apartment BuildingMadisonBuilding1987
Belmont HotelMadisonBuilding1990
Bernard-Hoover BoathouseMadisonBuilding1981
Biederstaedt GroceryMadisonBuilding1982
Blackhawk Country Club Mound Group (47 DA 131)MadisonSite1979
Bowen, James B., HouseMadisonBuilding1982
Bradley, Harold C., House NHLMadisonBuilding1972
Braley, Judge Arthur B., HouseMadisonBuilding1980
Bram Mound GroupDunnSite1993
Brittingham Park BoathouseMadisonBuilding1982
Brown, Charles E., Indian MoundsMadisonSite1984
Brown-Sewell HouseStoughtonBuilding2003
Burrows Park Effigy Mound and CampsiteMadisonSite1974
Cambridge Public School and High SchoolCambridgeBuilding1998
Camp Randall (Additional Documentation)MadisonSite1971
Cardinal HotelMadisonBuilding1982
Chase Grain ElevatorSun PrairieBuilding2010
City MarketMadisonBuilding1978
Clarke, Bascom B., HouseMadisonBuilding1980
Cold, Jens and Ingeborg, HouseStoughtonBuilding2003
College Hills Historic DistrictShorewood HillsDistrict2002
Collins, William, HouseMadisonBuilding1974
Commons, John R., HouseMadisonBuilding1985
Coolidge Street-Myrtle Street Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict2020
Crosse, Dr. Charles G., HouseSun PrairieBuilding1993
Curtis-Kittleson HouseMadisonBuilding1980
Cutter, Judson C., HouseMadisonBuilding1978
Dahle, Henry L. and Sarah, HouseMount HorebBuilding2003
Dahle, Herman B. and Anne Marie, HouseMount HorebBuilding2003
Dahle, Onon B. and Betsy, HousePerryBuilding2008
Dean, Nathaniel W., HouseMadisonBuilding1980
Depot Hill Historic DistrictStoughtonDistrict2021
Dick, Christian, BlockMadisonBuilding2002
Donald, John Sweet, FarmsteadSpringdaleBuilding1984
Dowling Apartment BuildingMadisonBuilding2002
Drohman CabinMadisonBuilding1981
Dunlap, Adam, FarmsteadMazomanieBuilding2001
Dunroven HouseDaneBuilding1980
East Dayton Street Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1988
East End Historic DistrictMiddletonDistrict2003
East Park Historic DistrictStoughtonDistrict2003
East Side Historic DistrictStoughtonDistrict1997
East Wilson Street Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1986
Edgewood College Mound Group Archeological DistrictMadisonDistrict1991
Edwards-Larson HouseMcFarlandBuilding2021
Eggiman, Ernest, HouseMadisonBuilding1994
Elliott, Edward C., HouseMadisonBuilding1978
Elmside Park MoundsMadisonDistrict1991
Ely, Richard T., HouseMadisonBuilding1974
Farwell's Point Mound GroupMadisonSite1974
Fess HotelMadisonBuilding1978
Fire Station No. 4MadisonBuilding1984
First Church of Christ ScientistMadisonBuilding1982
First Lutheran ChurchMiddletonBuilding1988
First National BankOregonBuilding2007
First Unitarian Society Meetinghouse NHLShorewood HillsBuilding1973
Forest Hill Cemetery Mound GroupMadisonSite1974
Forest Products LaboratoryMadisonBuilding1995
Fort Blue MoundsBlue MoundsSite2001
Fourth Lake Ridge Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1998
Fox HallFitchburgBuilding1983
Frey SchoolRoxburyBuilding2011
Fritz, John, FarmsteadMontroseBuilding1998
Frost Woods Historic DistrictMononaDistrict2026
Fuhremann Canning Company FactorySun PrairieBuilding2004
Garver's Supply Company Factory and OfficeMadisonBuilding2017
Gay BuildingMadisonBuilding2025
Gilbert, John and Flora, HouseOregonBuilding2007
Gilmore, Eugene A., HouseMadisonBuilding1973
Gonstead Clinic of ChiropracticMount HorebBuilding2023
Grace Episcopal ChurchMadisonBuilding1976
Graves, Sereno W., HouseRutlandBuilding1982
Gray, Philip H. and Margaret, HouseMadisonBuilding2021
Grimm Book BinderyMadisonBuilding1986
Hall, Samuel, HouseAlbionBuilding1993
Halvorson Mound GroupMadisonSite1993
Hammond FarmsteadCottage GroveBuilding2023
Hauge Log ChurchDaleyvilleBuilding1974
Heidelberger, Dr. Charles and Judith, HouseMadisonBuilding2017
Heim MoundMiddletonSite2004
Heiney's Meat MarketBlack EarthBuilding1984
Henry Mall Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1992
Hiram Smith Hall and AnnexMadisonBuilding1985
Hirsig, Louis, HouseMadisonBuilding1974
Hoff Department StoreMount HorebBuilding1989
Holy Name SeminaryMadisonBuilding2015
Hornung Mound GroupRoxburySite1996
Horticulture and Agricultural Physics and Soil Science BuildingMadisonBuilding1985
Hotel LoraineMadisonBuilding2002
Hoyt, Frank W., ParkMadisonDistrict2018
Hunt,Samuel, HouseRutlandBuilding1982
Hyer's HotelMadisonBuilding1983
Ingebretson, Gaute, Loft HouseStoughtonBuilding1987
Italian Workmen's ClubMadisonBuilding2024
Iverson-Johnson HouseStoughtonBuilding1988
Jackman BuildingMadisonBuilding1980
Jacobs, Herbert A., HouseMadisonBuilding1974
Jacobs, Herbert and Katherine, First House NHLMadisonBuilding2003
Jacobs, Herbert and Katherine, Second House NHLMiddletonBuilding2003
Jacobs, Herbert, Second HouseMadisonBuilding1974
Jenifer-Spaight Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict2004
Jensvold, Gulbrand and Bertha, HousePerryBuilding2008
Kayser, Adolph H., HouseMadisonBuilding1980
Kehl WineryPrairie du SacBuilding1976
Kemp, John and Margarethe, CabinMazomanieBuilding2008
King Street ArcadeMadisonBuilding2020
Klueter and Company Wholesale Grocery WarehouseMadisonBuilding2018
Kohl's Food StoreMononaBuilding2022
Kohlmann, Friederich, HouseSpringfield CornersBuilding1974
LaFollette, Robert M., House NHLMaple BluffBuilding1966
Lake Farms Archeological DistrictMadisonDistrict1978
Lake View SanatoriumMadisonBuilding1993
Lamb BuildingMadisonBuilding1984
Lamp, Robert M., HouseMadisonBuilding1978
Langdon Street Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1986
Larson, August Cornelius, HouseMadisonBuilding1994
Lathrop HallMadisonBuilding1985
Leitch, William T., HouseMadisonBuilding1975
Leonard, William Ellery, HouseMadisonBuilding1993
Lewis Mound Group (47-Da-74)McFarlandSite1984
Library ParkBellevilleSite1981
Lie, Aslak, CabinMount HorebBuilding1986
Lincoln SchoolMadisonBuilding1980
Lincoln Street Historic DistrictOregonDistrict2006
Little NorwayBlue MoundsBuilding1998
Lockwood BarnRutlandBuilding1982
Longfellow SchoolMadisonBuilding1996
Lougee, George A., HouseMadisonBuilding1978
Lower Mud Lake Archeological ComplexDunnSite2004
Luther Memorial ChurchMadisonBuilding2018
Machinery RowMadisonBuilding1982
Mackenzie, Alan and Janet, HouseMadisonBuilding2025
Madison Brass WorksMadisonBuilding2016
Madison Candy CompanyMadisonBuilding1997
Madison Gas and Electric Company PowerhouseMadisonBuilding2002
Madison Masonic TempleMadisonBuilding1990
Madison Saddlery CompanyMadisonBuilding2022
Madison Vocational School (Additional Documentation)MadisonBuilding2019
Madison Vocational School (Boundary Decrease)MadisonBuilding2023
Madison WaterworksMadisonBuilding1980
Main Street Historic DistrictMount HorebDistrict2019
Mann, John, HouseFitchburgBuilding1982
Mansion Hill Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1997
Maple Bluff Boy Scout CabinMaple BluffBuilding2017
Marquette Bungalows Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1997
Mazomanie Downtown Historic DistrictMazomanieDistrict1992
Mazomanie Town HallMazomanieBuilding1980
McCarthy, Timothy C. and Katherine, HouseMadisonBuilding2002
McCormick-International Harvester Company Branch HouseMadisonBuilding2010
McCoy FarmhouseFitchburgBuilding1980
McFarland HouseMcFarlandDistrict1988
Mendota State Hospital Mound GroupMadisonSite1974
Merrill Springs Mound Group II Archeological DistrictMadisonDistrict1991
Middleton Depot, Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul RailroadMiddletonBuilding1999
Miller HouseMadisonBuilding1979
Mills Woods MoundMadisonSite1991
Mills, Simeon, HouseMadisonBuilding1987
Monona Mound (47DA275)MononaSite1989
Moore Mound GroupDunnSite1993
Mount Horeb Public SchoolMount HorebBuilding2010
Mt. Horeb Opera BlockMt. HorebBuilding1989
Naeset, Jens, HouseStoughtonBuilding1985
Nakoma Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1998
North Hall, University of Wisconsin NHLMadisonBuilding1966
Northwest Side Historic DistrictStoughtonDistrict1998
Observatory Hill Mound GroupMadisonSite2004
Old Executive MansionMadisonBuilding1973
Old Spring TavernMadisonBuilding1974
Old SynagogueMadisonBuilding1970
Old U.S. Forest Products LaboratoryMadisonBuilding1985
Oregon High SchoolVillage of OregonBuilding1998
Oregon Masonic LodgeOregonBuilding1992
Oregon Water Tower and Pump HouseOregonStructure2007
Orpheum TheaterMadisonBuilding2008
Orton ParkMadisonSite1978
Orton Park Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1988
Ott, John George, HouseMadisonBuilding1982
Outlet MoundMononaSite2003
Owen, Ray S. and Theo P., HouseMononaBuilding2022
Paoli Co-Operative Creamery Company PlantMontroseBuilding2023
Paoli MillsPaoliDistrict1979
Phlaum-McWilliams Mound GroupMadisonDistrict1991
Pierce, Carrie, HouseMadisonBuilding1972
Plough InnMadisonBuilding1980
Pond, Daniel, FarmhouseBrooklynBuilding1980
Quisling Towers ApartmentsMadisonBuilding1984
Roe, Ole K., HouseStoughtonBuilding1984
Rowley, Dr. Newman C., HouseMiddletonBuilding1999
Rutland United Brethren in Christ Meeting House and CemeteryRutlandBuilding2004
Schroeder-Bohrod HouseMononaBuilding2023
Schumann, Frederick, FarmsteadBerryBuilding1993
Sherman Avenue Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1988
Shorewood Historic DistrictVillage of Shorewood HillsDistrict2002
Siggelkow Park Mound Group (47-Da-504)McFarlandSite1985
Simeon Mills Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1987
Skindrud, Eric and Jerome, FarmSpringdaleSite1994
Smith, Adam and Mary, HouseSun PrairieBuilding1998
South Main Street Historic DistrictVillage of OregonDistrict2000
South SchoolStoughtonBuilding1985
Southwest Side Historic DistrictStoughtonDistrict1997
Spooner-Haight Farmstead (Additional Documentation)FitchburgBuilding1993
Spring Harbor Mound GroupMadisonDistrict1991
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic ChurchMadisonBuilding1982
St. Peter's Roman Catholic ChurchAshtonBuilding1980
State Historical Society of WisconsinMadisonBuilding1972
State Office BuildingMadisonBuilding1982
Steensland, Halle, HouseMadisonBuilding1982
Steinle Turret Machine CompanyMadisonBuilding2007
Stevens, Breese, Municipal Athletic FieldMadisonStructure2015
Stock PavilionMadisonBuilding1985
Stoner, Joseph J., HouseMadisonBuilding1980
Stoughton High SchoolStoughtonBuilding2002
Stoughton Main Street Commercial Historic DistrictStoughtonDistrict1982
Stoughton Main Street Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)StoughtonDistrict1994
Stoughton Municipal Power Plant No.1StoughtonBuilding2022
Stoughton Universalist ChurchStoughtonBuilding1982
Stricker Pond I Site (47 DA 424)MiddletonSite1979
Suhr, John J., HouseMadisonBuilding1982
Sun Prairie Downtown Historic DistrictSun PrairieDistrict2019
Sun Prairie Water TowerSun PrairieStructure2000
Sunset Hills Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict2015
Sure Johnson Mound GroupMcFarlandSite1994
Sylvan Avenue - Ridge Road Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict2020
Tenney BuildingMadisonBuilding2017
Tenney Park-Yahara River ParkwayMadisonSite1999
Thompson's BlockMadisonBuilding1984
ThorstrandMadisonBuilding1980
Tompkins-Brindler Mound GroupMononaSite2003
United States Post Office and Federal CourthouseMadisonBuilding2002
University Heights Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1982
University Hill Farms Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict2015
University Presbyterian Church and Student CenterMadisonBuilding2002
University of Wisconsin ArboretumMadisonDistrict2019
University of Wisconsin Arboretum NHLMadisonDistrict
University of Wisconsin Armory and Gymnasium NHLMadisonBuilding1993
University of Wisconsin Dairy Barn NHLMadisonBuilding2002
University of Wisconsin Field HouseMadisonBuilding1998
University of Wisconsin Memorial UnionMadisonBuilding2015
University of Wisconsin Science Hall NHLMadisonBuilding1993
Vilas Circle Bear Effigy Mound and the Curtis MoundsMadisonStructure1974
Vilas Park Mound GroupMadisonDistrict1991
Wakeley-Giles Commercial BuildingMadisonBuilding1988
Washburn Observatory and Observatory Director's ResidenceMadisonBuilding1985
Waubesa SchoolBlooming Grove TownshipBuilding1997
Waunakee Railroad DepotWaunakeeBuilding1978
West Lawn Heights Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1998
West Madison Depot, Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul RailwayMadisonBuilding1985
West SchoolStoughtonBuilding1992
Wiedenbeck-Dobelin WarehouseMadisonBuilding1986
Willard and Fern Tompkins HouseMononaBuilding2023
Willow Drive Mounds and Habitation Site ComplexMadisonSite2025
Wingra Park Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1999
Wisconsin Heights BattlefieldSauk CitySite2002
Wisconsin Industrial School for GirlsFitchburgDistrict1991
Wisconsin Memorial Hospital Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1988
Wisconsin State Capitol NHLMadisonBuilding1970
Wisconsin Wagon Company FactoryMadisonBuilding2002

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Dane was formed in 1836 (1836-12-07) from Crawford, Iowa, Milwaukee.

DANE created by Wisconsin Territory from CRAWFORD, IOWA, and MILWAUKEE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Dane County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

562k281k3141840188019201930196020002020
18401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
31443,92253,23369,43589,432130,660169,357222,095323,545426,526561,504

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

141 cemeteries and 11 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 141 listed
NameLatLon
Albion Prairie Cemetery42.91323-89.05625
Baker Cemetery43.26751-89.19658
Belleville Cemetery42.87113-89.5325
Blooming Grove Cemetery43.06285-89.31734
Bovre Cemetery42.96263-89.18056
Bristol Lutheran Cemetery43.22283-89.21194
Burke Cemetery43.16464-89.27567
Burke Lutheran Cemetery43.15987-89.30422
Burke Station Cemetery43.13537-89.27148
Calvary Cemetery43.065-89.43623
Cottage Grove Cemetery43.08622-89.2117
County Line Cemetery43.29351-89.51132
Dane Cemetery43.22766-89.58142
Dane Immanuel Cemetery43.25432-89.49942
Dane and Roxbury Cemetery43.26916-89.59122
Deansville Cemetery43.17283-89.1096
Deerfield Lutheran Cemetery43.0509-89.09682
Door Creek Cemetery43.02829-89.19115
Dunlap Cemetery43.20833-89.72886
East Blue Mounds Lutheran Cemetery42.97421-89.74901
East Koshkonong Cemetery42.95347-89.04788
East Primrose Cemetery42.88345-89.67635
East York Cemetery43.26746-89.03626
Evergreen Cemetery42.89199-89.0789
Evergreen Hill Cemetery43.10626-89.54161
First Lutheran Cemetery43.07519-89.53605
First Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery43.0173-89.6984
Forest Hill Cemetery43.06338-89.432
Forest Hill Cemetery Soldiers' Lot43.0632-89.43122
Frenchtown Cemetery42.89502-89.50284
Gerike Cemetery43.06742-89.01146
German Valley Cemetery42.98067-89.78907
Graves Cemetery42.86345-89.31127
Hauge Cemetery43.02595-89.07436
Hauge Log Church Cemetery42.93019-89.81965
Hauge Lutheran Cemetery42.90409-89.78895
Highland Memory Gardens43.09064-89.24092
Holy Cross Cemetery43.06694-89.43484
Holy Redeemer Cemetery42.92633-89.76569
Hope Cottage Grove Cemetery43.04909-89.24623
Hope Evangelical Cemetery43.05571-89.24722
Kingsley Cemetery43.17043-89.49629
Kohlman Cemetery43.17705-89.54122
Lake Harriet Cemetery42.92884-89.44783
Lakeview Lutheran Cemetery43.13844-89.37737
Liberty Lutheran Cemetery43.04088-89.10768
Liberty Prairie Cemetery43.03179-89.13977
Lutheran East Cemetery42.92006-89.20189
Lutheran South Cemetery42.91186-89.19915
Matsen Cemetery43.24273-89.40171
Mazomanie Cemetery43.1661-89.81422
McFarland Lutheran Cemetery43.01536-89.28611
McFarland Lutheran Cemetery East43.01599-89.2774
Medina Cemetery43.16379-89.05798
Middleton Cemetery43.0611-89.529
Montrose Pioneer Cemetery42.88649-89.57792
Moravian Cemetery43.24874-89.29887
Mount Horeb Union Cemetery43.01117-89.72916
Mount Pleasant Cemetery42.89439-89.64682
Mount Vernon Cemetery42.95527-89.65605
North Side Cemetery43.02433-89.72578
North Windsor Cemetery43.26731-89.2692
North York Cemetery43.26835-89.07647
Norway Grove Cemetery43.23924-89.36542
Oak Hall Cemetery42.95091-89.45136
Oak Hill Cemetery42.96436-89.62752
Oak Hill Cemetery43.14387-89.73892
Oak Lawn Cemetery43.25375-89.08848
Old Black Earth Cemetery43.13023-89.74448
One Hundred Mile Grove Cemetery43.2717-89.45613
Paoli Cemetery42.92184-89.52999
Perry Lutheran Cemetery42.9135-89.81836
Pierceville Cemetery43.14479-89.15236
Pioneer Norwegian Cemetery43.09989-89.10087
Pioneer Norwegian Cemetery42.93113-89.043
Prairie Cemetery43.10358-89.19971
Prairie Mound Cemetery42.94218-89.38194
Private Cemetery43.01289-89.22738
Resurrection Cemetery43.06667-89.43323
Riverside Cemetery42.91218-89.22165
Historical populated places — 11 of 11
NameLatLon
Aldens Corners43.22138-89.64012
Bakers Corners43.26777-89.18706
Buss's Corners43.16611-89.20734
Catfish43.15138-89.40317
Darwin43.12861-89.35206
Five Points43.01611-89.53318
Forward42.89694-89.75623
Hanerville42.87556-89.1615
Montrose42.88278-89.57734
Primrose42.90139-89.66234
Syene43.00555-89.39568

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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