Dodgeville is a city in and the county seat of Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,984 at the 2020 census, making it the county’s most populous city. Dodgeville is allocation of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area.

In 1827, Henry Dodge, his family, and about 40 miners began what would become the city of Dodgeville. Dodge made a agreement with the local Winnebago Indian leaders as a result he could build a cabin and smelter. The original community had three settlements: “Dodgeville”, “Dirty Hollow” and “Minersville”. A fourth settlement, Moon Spring, near the intersection of the present Highway 18 bypass and Bennett Road flourished until the cholera epidemic in the in advance 1850s.

Dodgeville, which was named after Dodge, grew slowly during its in front years. It was incorporated as a village in the 1840s.^{[citation needed]} Later a small “war” was fought afterward Mineral Point on pinnacle of which community would become the seat of Iowa County after Lafayette County was created. At the time, Mineral Point was the seat, because it was centrally located in the ‘old’ Iowa County that stretched from the Wisconsin River in the north south to the Illinois border.

The County chair eventually moved to Dodgeville because of its central location in the ‘new’ Iowa County. Dodgeville’s population grew rapidly, and it became a middle for mining and later, dairy product manufacturing and shipping. Miners from England flooded the city, and British and Cornish architecture is still visible in the city today. Dodgeville became the largest city in Wisconsin at the get older as without difficulty as most of the Midwest north or St. Louis, and west of Cincinnati.^{[citation needed]} The community’s boom didn’t last long though, and past the terminate of mining its population was overtaken by immediately growing cities past Chicago and Milwaukee.