Cadott, WI

Cadott’s name reaches back to Jean Baptiste Cadotte, whose trading post on the Yellow River predates the village itself. The present village took shape in 1865, when Robert Marriner built a dam and sawmill, then platted the town as Cadotte Falls. That river connection still makes sense on a map: the Yellow River is Cadott’s main waterway and the village sits in its watershed. The community also leans into its halfway-between-the-Equator-and-North-Pole slogan, a bit of local geography that shows up in the village’s shorthand. Add the Cadott Community School District and the Nabor Days celebration, and you get a small Wisconsin village with a clear name, river, and school tradition.