Basco is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in the town of
Montrose, in
Dane County
Dane County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 561,504, making it the second-most populous county in Wisconsin after Milwaukee County, Wiscon ...
,
Wisconsin
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, United States.
Basco is located less than 15 miles from
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.
The community is named for
Basco, Illinois
Basco is a village in Bear Creek Township, Hancock County, Illinois, United States. The population was 80 at the 2020 census.
Geography
Basco is located in south-central Hancock County at (40.3278009, -91.1994949). It is southwest of Carth ...
. It once had a
post office
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, which opened in September 1889.
Notes
Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Dane County, Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, metropolitan statistical area
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