Baraboo ( ) is the

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Sauk County, Wisconsin Sauk County is a county in Wisconsin. It is named after a large village of the Sauk people. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,763. Its county seat and largest city is Baraboo. The county was created in 1840 from Wisconsin Territor ...

, United States, located along the

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. The population was 12,556 at the 2020 census. The most populous city in the county, Baraboo is the principal city of the Baraboo micropolitan statistical area which comprises a portion of the Madison combined statistical area. Baraboo is home to the

Circus World Museum The Circus World Museum is a museum complex in Baraboo, Wisconsin, devoted to circus-related history. The museum features circus artifacts and exhibits and hosts daily live circus performances throughout the summer. It is owned by the Wisconsin H ...

and the former headquarters and winter home of the

Ringling Brothers Circus Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows is a circus founded in Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States in 1884 by five of the seven Ringling brothers: Albert, August, Otto, Alfred T., Charles, John, and Henry. The Ringling brothers were sons of a Germ ...

. The Al. Ringling Theatre is an active landmark in the city. Baraboo is near Devil's Lake State Park and

Aldo Leopold Shack and Farm The Aldo Leopold Shack and Farm is a historic farm on Levee Road in rural Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. The property was acquired in the 1930s as a family summer retreat by the noted conservationist and writer Aldo Leopold and is the l ...

. The

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has an active cultural and community presence in the Baraboo area.

History

The area around Baraboo was the site of a

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village as early as 1665. The current community was established by Abe Wood in 1838, and was originally known as the village of Adams. In 1839 several settlers arrived and started building cabins, and a saw mill. In 1846 it became the county seat of

Sauk County Sauk County is a county (United States), county in Wisconsin. It is named after a large village of the Sauk people. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 65,763. Its county seat and largest city is Baraboo, Wiscon ...

after a fierce fight with the nearby village of Reedsburg. In 1852, the village was renamed "Baraboo", after the nearby river. It was incorporated as a village in 1866 and as a city in 1882."Term: Baraboo (brief history)"
in ''Dictionary of Wisconsin History''. In the 1860s, the city had surpassed a population of 2,000, and many businesses started to form, including grocery stores, banks, and hotels. In 1872, the

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(C&NW) was built. Baraboo became home to several saw mills during this time, because of its location near the

Baraboo Baraboo ( ) is the county seat of Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States, located along the Baraboo River. The population was 12,556 at the 2020 census. The most populous city in the county, Baraboo is the principal city of the Baraboo micropol ...

and

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Rivers. In 1884, the

was established in Baraboo by circus performers and tourers the Ringling brothers, after they settled in the city in 1875 and performed their first show in

Mazomanie, Wisconsin Mazomanie is a village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,768 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The village is located within the Mazomanie (town), Wisconsin, Town of Mazomanie. It is part of the Madison ...

in 1882. Several other circuses then came to the city, which earned Baraboo the nickname "Circus City". Located south of Baraboo in the

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of Bluffview, was the Badger Ordnance Works, which was the largest munitions factory in the world during World War II. It was later demolished and now the land is a part of the Sauk Prairie Recreation Area. Cirrus, a manufacturer of single-engine aircraft, was founded in a rural Baraboo barn in 1984 by the

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. After a few years of designing the VK-30, they relocated to the Baraboo–Dells Airport and in 1994 moved the company to its present-day home in

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Geography

According to the

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, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. West Baraboo, a suburb of Baraboo, borders the city on its west side. Baraboo gives its name to the Baraboo Syncline, a doubly plunging, asymmetric

syncline In structural geology, a syncline is a fold with younger layers closer to the center of the structure, whereas an anticline is the inverse of a syncline. A synclinorium (plural synclinoriums or synclinoria) is a large syncline with superimposed ...

Proterozoic The Proterozoic ( ) is the third of the four geologic eons of Earth's history, spanning the time interval from 2500 to 538.8 Mya, and is the longest eon of Earth's geologic time scale. It is preceded by the Archean and followed by the Phanerozo ...

-aged Baraboo quartzite. Researchers at the

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, particularly

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, used the syncline to demonstrate that small-scale deformational structures in isolated outcrops reflect larger regional structures and that sedimentary structures could indicate the original top-facing direction within elaborately deformed

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. These two principles sparked a global revolution in

structural geology Structural geology is the study of the three-dimensional distribution of rock units with respect to their deformational histories. The primary goal of structural geology is to use measurements of present-day rock geometries to uncover informati ...

during the 1920s. The nearby

Baraboo Hills The Baraboo Range is a mountain range in Columbia County and Sauk County, Wisconsin. Geologically, it is a syncline fold consisting of highly eroded Precambrian metamorphic rock. It is about long and varies from 5 to in width. The Wisconsin ...

are designated one of the "Last Great Places" by the

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because of its rare rocks, plants and animals. The hills were created by glacial action, and in some points poke up from the flat terrain to form a stark contrast. Some of these features were created when a glacial pocket was formed during the

Wisconsin glaciation The Wisconsin glaciation, also called the Wisconsin glacial episode, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex, peaking more than 20,000 years ago. This advance included the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which nucleated ...

where the advance of the glacier halted, along the edge of what is known as the Driftless Area. Devil's Lake State Park, Wisconsin's largest state park, contains large areas of the Baraboo Hills. Pewits Nest is located outside Baraboo.

Climate

According to the

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system, Baraboo has a

warm-summer humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...

, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. The hottest temperature recorded in Baraboo was on July 5–7, 2012, while the coldest temperature recorded was on January 30, 1951.

Demographics

Baraboo forms the core of the

's Baraboo Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Sauk County (2000 population: 55,225). The Baraboo μSA is just northwest of the

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, with which it forms the Census Bureau's Baraboo-Madison Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area.

2020 census

As of the census of 2020, the population was 12,556. The

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was . There were 5,776 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 88.0%

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, 1.4% Native American, 1.3%

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, 1.0% Asian, 2.7% from other races, and 5.6% from two or more races. Ethnically, the population was 5.9%

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or Latino of any race.

2010 census

As of the

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of 2010, there were 12,048 people, 5,161 households, and 3,016 families residing in the city. The

was . There were 5,619 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 94.0%

, 1.3%

, 1.0% Native American, 0.5% Asian, 0.1%

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, 1.5% from other races, and 1.6% from two or more races.

or Latino people of any race were 3.7% of the population. There were 5,161 households, of which 30.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.1% were married couples living together, 11.8% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.5% had a male householder with no wife present, and 41.6% were non-families. 34.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and the average family size was 2.89. The median age in the city was 38 years. 23.8% of residents were under the age of 18; 8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 27.5% were from 25 to 44; 25.1% were from 45 to 64; and 15.6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49.1% male and 50.9% female.

2000 census

As of the

of 2000, there were 10,711 people, 4,467 households, and 2,733 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,030.2 people per square mile (783.2/km²). There were 4,718 housing units at an average density of 894.3 per square mile (345.0 persons/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.12% White, 0.51%

, 0.77% Native American, 0.52%

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n, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.41% from other races, and 0.66% from two or more races. 1.57% of the population were

or Latino of any race. There were 4,467 households, out of which 31.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.9% were married couples living together, 10.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.8% were non-families. 32.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.33 and the average family size was 2.96. In the city, the population was spread out, with 24.9% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 15.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.0 males. The median income for a household in the city was $38,375, and the median income for a family was $48,149. Males had a median income of $32,775 versus $22,813 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,304. 6.6% of the population and 4.7% of families were below the poverty line, including 6.7% of those under the age of 18 and 10.0% of those age 65 or older.

Arts and culture

Baraboo includes the Downtown Baraboo Historic District, which consists of 75 commercial and civic buildings built between 1870 and 1938. The Sauk County Courthouse is in the center of the district, and it serves the county. Other historic buildings in the city include Carnegie-Schadde Memorial Public Library, William Clark House, Gust Brothers' Store, Island Woolen Company Office Building, Walworth D. Porter Duplex Residence, Al. Ringling Theatre, Albrecht C. Ringling House, Charles Ringling House, Charles and Anna Ruhland House, Seven Gables, Thompson House Hotel, A. G. Tuttle Estate and Jacob Van Orden House. The

near Baraboo was acquired in the 1930s as a family summer retreat by the noted conservationist and writer

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and is the landscape that inspired his conservation ethic and the writing of his best-known work, ''

A Sand County Almanac ''A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There'' is a 1949 non-fiction book by American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist Aldo Leopold. Describing the land around the author's home in Sauk County, Wisconsin, the collection of essay ...

''.

Hank Snow Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999) was a Canadian country music guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He recorded 140 albums and charted more than 85 singles on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' country charts betw ...

's 1959 song "

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", famously covered by

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, mentions visiting Baraboo.

Government

A city hall building opened in 1967,Dewel, Bob.
'60s, '70s and sophistication too?
In: "The 1970's" Pages 989 to 1052. Baraboo Public Library. Retrieved on November 22, 2018. CITED: p. 990. and another location finished construction in 2018 at a cost of $9 million. A post office opened in 1961.

Education

A campus of the University of Wisconsin–Platteville Baraboo Sauk County is located in Baraboo. The Baraboo School District has four elementary schools serving students in grades 1 through 5, one kindergarten center, one middle school and one high school (

Baraboo High School Baraboo High School is a State school, public Secondary school, high school in Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States, part of the Baraboo School District. It serves 917 students in grades 9–12 from Baraboo, West Baraboo, Wisconsin, West Baraboo, No ...

). There are also three parochial schools: St. Joseph's Catholic School, which serves Pre-K through sixth grade; St. John's Lutheran School of the

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, serving Pre-K through eighth grade; and Community Christian School, serving 4K through high school.Sauk County Historical Society. ''Baraboo''.

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, 2017. , 9781467125109. p
84
The Baraboo Public Library serves the community. The former Free Congregational Society church was demolished by 1902 for the library's construction.Sauk County Historical Society. ''Baraboo''.

, 2017. , 9781467125109. p
85

Transportation

The Baraboo-Wisconsin Dells Airport (KDLL) serves the city and surrounding communities, and is located on Bus. US 12 3 miles north of the city. State Highways 33,

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, and U.S. 12 pass through Baraboo. There is access to

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/ 94 nearby. The Wisconsin & Southern Railroad provides freight rail service to Baraboo via the

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, the nearest

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passenger rail station is in neighboring Wisconsin Dells.

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transit service is available in the city through Baraboo Transit. Baraboo station was located on the

and served both passengers and freight traffic as well as housing the Madison Division offices of the C&NW. Passenger service to the depot ended in 1963 with the elimination of the '' Rochester 400''. As of 2022, the Sauk County Historical Society hopes to restore the depot into a museum and community gathering space.

Notable people

* Donald R. Atkinson, educator and writer * Frank Avery, Wisconsin State Senator * Stan Barnes, judge,

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* Virgil H. Cady, Wisconsin State Representative * Tiny Cahoon,

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player * Jorge A. Carow, Wisconsin State Representative * Ella D. Crawford, temperance movement organizer *

John V. Diener John Vernon Diener (January 23, 1887 – May 29, 1937) was an American politician who served as the 35th mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin, from 1929 to 1937. Biography Diener was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin, in 1887. He graduated from Notre Dame Law ...

, mayor of

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* Evan Alfred Evans, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals * Evan Glodell, film director, producer, writer, and actor * Elna Jane Hilliard Grahn, educator * Henry C. Hansbrough, U.S. Senator from

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* John R. Hofstatter, Wisconsin State Representative * Guy E. Holmes, musician and composer *

John J. Jenkins John James Jenkins (August 24, 1843June 10, 1911) was an English American immigrant, lawyer, judge, and Republican politician. He served seven terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing northwest Wisconsin, ...

, U.S. Representative * Robert J. Keller, Wisconsin State Representative * Alan and Dale Klapmeier, founders of

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Len Koenecke Leonard George Koenecke (January 18, 1904 in Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA – September 17, 1935 in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada) was an American baseball player who played Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants. He di ...

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player * Belle Case La Follette, lawyer and activist *

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, First Lady of Peru * Louise M. Lawson (1855–1951), president, Wisconsin State Woman's Christian Temperance Union *

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, former

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of the

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(2007–2020), currently the president of basketball operations for the

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* Mary Mortimer (1816–1877), British-born American educator * Beryl Newman,

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recipient *

John Ringling North John Ringling North (August 14, 1903 – June 4, 1985) was the president and director of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1937 to 1943 and again from 1947 to 1967. Life and career North was born on August 14, 1903, in Barabo ...

, president and director of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus * Stuart Palmer, mystery novelist *

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, Wisconsin State Representative * Mike Reinfeldt,

player and executive * Cyrus Remington, Wisconsin State Representative and jurist *

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, threw the first

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in football history, grew up in Baraboo *

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, socialist newspaper editor, attended high school in Baraboo * Terry Stieve,

player * Walter Terry, Wisconsin legislator * John M. True, Wisconsin legislator * C. F. Viebahn, Wisconsin State Representative * David Vittum, Wisconsin State Senator
The History of Sauk County, Wisconsin
', Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880, p. 437. *

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, Wisconsin State Representative * Edwin E. Woodman, Wisconsin State Senator

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