{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Basco, Wisconsin |settlement_type = [[Unincorporated area|Unincorporated community]] |nickname = |motto =

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<!-- Area/postal codes & others --> | | | | | | | |postal_code_type = |postal_code = |area_code = [[Area code 608|608]] |blank_name = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID |blank_info = 1561217<ref name="gnis"/> |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Basco''' is an [[Unincorporated area#United States|unincorporated community]] in the town of [[Montrose, Wisconsin|Montrose]], in [[Dane County, Wisconsin|Dane County]], [[Wisconsin]], United States.<ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis|1561217|Basco, Wisconsin}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wisconsin.hometownlocator.com/wi/dane/basco.cfm|title=Basco Populated Place Profile / Dane County, Wisconsin Data}}</ref> Basco is located less than 15 miles from [[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cameorose.com/attractions.html |title=Madison, Southern Wisconsin Attractions |work=Cameo Rose Victorian Country Inn Bed and Breakfast |access-date=2008-12-25| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090122080911/http://cameorose.com/attractions.html| archive-date= 22 January 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

The community is named for [[Basco, Illinois]]. It once had a [[post office]], which opened in September 1889.<ref name="Callary">{{cite book |last1=Callary |first1=Edward |title=Place Names of Wisconsin |date=2016 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |location=Madison, Wisconsin |isbn=9780299309640 |page=22}}</ref>

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