2018 Map of De Forest

About this map

Madison and Sun Prairie anchor the southern and eastern edges of this landscape, showing the suburban expansion and modern infrastructure of Dane County. The northern reaches are defined by the villages of De Forest and Windsor, where residential developments like Lake Windsor sit alongside historical markers of earlier settlement. A network of local history is preserved in numerous rural burial grounds, including the Norway Grove Cem and Saint Olaf Catholic Cem. The terrain is drained by the Yahara River and Token Creek, which wind through the township before reaching the northern limits of the state capital. Transport corridors are central to this area's identity, dominated by the sprawling Dane County Regional Airport-Truax Field, the CP Rail line, and a dense web of county roads that replaced the older rail-and-river economy near Burke Station.