Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Madison, NE

Madison is a city in and the county seat of Madison County in northeastern Nebraska, founded where Union Creek and Taylor Creek join in the southeastern part of the county.

Madison was founded in 1867 by Henry Mitchell Barnes together with about twenty German families from Wisconsin, and the town Barnes platted in 1870–71 took its name from Madison County.

Madison became the county seat in 1875 and was incorporated in 1876; the Union Pacific Railroad reached the town in 1879, and Madison has held onto the courthouse ever since, even though Norfolk, fifteen miles north, has grown to more than ten times its size.

The 2020 census counted 2,283 people in Madison, living in 717 households.

Madison is one of Nebraska's most diverse small cities: 51.6 percent of its residents identified as Hispanic or Latino in the 2020 census, up from 48.8 percent in 2010 and just a small share before the 1990s.

Madison's largest employer by far is the Tyson Fresh Meats pork-processing plant, whose roughly 1,200 full-time workers amount to more than half the town's population; the plant was earlier run by IBP.

St. Leonard Catholic Church, built in 1913 at 504 South Nebraska Street and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, reflects the town's early German Catholic heritage; its parish was organized in 1879.

Madison is the birthplace of Armitage Trail (born Maurice Coons in 1902), whose 1930 novel Scarface became the basis for two famous gangster films.

Madison also produced Horace L. McBride, a lieutenant general who commanded the U.S. Army's 80th Infantry Division in Europe during World War II.

Madison is part of the Norfolk micropolitan statistical area and sits just west of the junction of U.S. Route 81 and Nebraska Highway 32, about 30 miles north of Columbus.