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Maple Bluff is a small village in Dane County, Wisconsin, on the eastern shore of Lake Mendota, completely surrounded by the city of Madison and part of the Madison metropolitan area.

Maple Bluff is the site of the Wisconsin Governor's Mansion, the Executive Residence that serves as the official home of the governor of Wisconsin and their family.

The Governor's Mansion is a 34-room, roughly 16,000-square-foot house built in the early 1920s for an industrialist; the state bought it in 1949, and every Wisconsin governor since then has lived there.

Maple Bluff is also home to the Robert M. La Follette House, the historic home associated with Wisconsin's famous 'Fighting Bob' La Follette family.

The population of Maple Bluff was 1,368 at the 2020 census; at the 2010 census the village had 1,313 people in 547 households, and its population peaked at 1,974 back in 1970.

Maple Bluff covers only about 0.69 square miles, all of it land, making it one of the smallest municipalities in the Madison area by area.

The village is exclusively residential, and social life revolves around the Maple Bluff Country Club, which sits above the village's community beach on Lake Mendota.

Despite its size, Maple Bluff runs its own police department and its own fire rescue department providing fire protection and emergency medical services.

Maple Bluff has long been one of Wisconsin's wealthiest small communities: at the 2000 census its median household income was $111,400, with a per capita income of $66,380.

Notable people associated with Maple Bluff include comedian and actor Chris Farley, playwright Thornton Wilder, actor Bradley Whitford, and Olympic gold medalist swimmer Jim Montgomery.