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Fitchburg is a city in Dane County, directly south of Madison, that was named for Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

Fitchburg remained a town from the 1840s until it incorporated as a city on April 26, 1983, after a legal fight that went to the Wisconsin Supreme Court to stop the city of Madison from annexing its land.

The population of Fitchburg was 29,609 at the 2020 census, up from 25,260 in 2010 and just 15,648 in 1990, making it one of the faster-growing cities in Dane County.

Census QuickFacts counts 15,703 households in Fitchburg, with a small average household size of about 2.02 people and an owner-occupied housing rate of 47.6 percent.

Fitchburg covers about 35.2 square miles and is unusual among Madison suburbs for mixing dense subdivisions and research campuses with large stretches of active farmland and rural land.

The city is the corporate headquarters campus of Promega Corporation, a biotechnology company founded in 1978 whose 400-acre Fitchburg campus handles research, manufacturing, and quality testing for products sold in about 100 countries.

In 2021 Promega opened its 280,000-square-foot Kornberg Center research and development facility in Fitchburg, named for Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Arthur Kornberg.

McKee Farms Park is Fitchburg's signature community park, known for its splash pad, playgrounds, community gardens, and the historic Prairie House.

The Nine Springs E-Way, a green corridor built around Nine Springs Creek, gives Fitchburg a protected natural corridor for wildlife and recreation in the middle of the city.

Cyclists can ride through Fitchburg on the Capital City State Trail, which links the city into the Madison area's regional trail network.