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Cadott is a village in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, where State Highways 27 and 29 cross the Yellow River.

The village traces its name to Jean Baptiste Cadotte, a French Canadian fur trader who established a trading post on the Yellow River near modern Cadott in the late 1700s or early 1800s.

Cadott's first settler, Robert Marriner, arrived in 1865 and built a dam on the Yellow River to power a sawmill; the settlement's first school opened in a log cabin in 1868 and its post office opened in 1872.

Marriner platted the first section of the community in 1875 under the name "Cadotte Falls," and the Wisconsin & Minnesota Railroad built its line through Cadott in 1880.

Cadott incorporated as a village in 1895, when it had grown to roughly 900 people as a lumber and milling center.

Cadott has the unusual distinction of sitting on the 45th parallel, equidistant from the Equator and the North Pole, and signs along Highway 27 invite travelers to be photographed at the halfway point.

Cadott had 1,498 residents at the 2020 census, up from 1,437 people in 605 households at the 2010 census.

Since 1987, the Cadott area has hosted two major annual music festivals, Country Fest and Rock Fest, held on grounds about eight miles outside the village that draw fans from across the country.

Cadott High School's wrestling program is a small-school powerhouse — the Hornets won the Wisconsin Division 3 team state championship in 2007 and were state runners-up in 2005.

On July 21, 2020, a tornado struck the north side of Cadott, damaging structures but injuring no one.