Welcome

The Town of Primrose is located in the southwestern portion of Dane County. The town lies in Wisconsin’s Driftless Zone, a rolling landscape with steep river valleys that escaped glaciation during the last Ice Age 50,000 years ago. The Town features a diverse rural landscape that includes farms, woodlands, river valleys, and hillsides. Residents value the rural lifestyle and environmental resources, such as Mount Vernon Creek, Door Creek, and Primrose Brook. As of the 2020 census, 750 people lived in Primrose.

Ninety four percent of the Town’s land was in agricultural use in 2020. Forty percent of the farmland in the Town was dedicated to traditional corn/soybean rotational crops, with another nineteen percent woodland, fifteen percent Hay/Alfalfa farming, and three percent pasture. Small, but growing, acreages of wheat farming, dairy cattle/milk production, beef cattle ranching, apiculture, other grain farming, and nursery tree production also occur throughout the town.

As an agricultural community we are proud of our rolling fields and pastures, dotted with new and historic barns and farm outbuildings.  Historic cheese houses and one-room schoolhouses still stand and have been lovingly converted to residences.  The Land Use Plan of the Town of Primrose is dedicated to preserving this landscape and farming community.