Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Verona, WI

Verona is a city in Dane County, about 10 miles southwest of downtown Madison, and it was named for Verona, New York.

Verona's nickname is "Hometown USA," bestowed in 1966 by servicemen fighting in Vietnam who called it the perfect example of a hometown; the city still celebrates the nickname with its Hometown Days festival each June.

The community grew up around the Badger Mill, completed in 1844, the first mill of its kind in Dane County.

The Town of Verona was established on February 11, 1847; Verona was incorporated as a village in 1921 and became a city on April 18, 1978, in part so it would not be swallowed up by growing Madison.

The 2020 census counted 14,030 people in Verona, up from 10,619 in 2010, when the city had 4,223 households.

Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024 count about 6,451 households in Verona, averaging 2.33 people each.

Wisconsin Department of Administration estimates show Verona grew faster than any other Dane County community between 2020 and 2026, rising about 23 percent to more than 17,000 people.

Verona is the global headquarters of Epic Systems, the healthcare software company founded by Judy Faulkner in 1979, whose software holds the medical records of more than 280 million people in the United States.

Epic's whimsical, themed headquarters campus sprawls across roughly 1,600 acres in Verona, and the company's address, 1979 Milky Way, nods to the year the company was founded.

A portion of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail runs through Verona, and the Sugar River and Badger Mill Creek flow through the Verona Sugar River Valley.