Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdahl!amdcad!pyramid!lll-winken!ncsuvx!uwmcsd1!uwvax!puff!mading From: mading@puff.UUCP Newsgroups: alt.flame Subject: Re: Eric Mading and WI (was Re: Amnesty International) Message-ID: <1185@puff.wisc.edu> Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 21:17:31 EST Article-I.D.: puff.1185 Posted: Fri Oct 30 21:17:31 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 1-Nov-87 10:43:16 EST References: <2070@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1899@marque.mu.edu> <1924@uwmacc.UUCP> Distribution: usa Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 19 Summary: Both cities are larger than that > > ]Madison: 20 square miles of land surrounded by reality. > The actual quote was "Madison: 25 square miles of land surrounded by reality." The size of the City of Madison is 25 square miles, not 20. But I read that Madison has only 15 square miles of land. This must have been in the early 1960's, when the furthest west addresses were in the 4000's, and all addresses above 6000 were farmer's fields then. Lee Drefus was gov. from 79-83, and Madison probably had 20 square miles of land then. But a 1987 article in the Milwaukee Journal gave the quote as: "Madison: 25 square miles of land surroun- ded by reality." I suppose that the growth on the city's west side has been thereason, as the highest addresses in the city are around 8000, and almost all theland east of Gammon Road (7000) has been developed. > > And you surely know what they say about Milwaukee, don't you: > 20 square miles of mindlessness of the sort that produced your > ridiculous post. > Milwaukee is much larger, but easier to get around in. I believe that Milwaukeehas 96 square miles of land, or maybe 100 or more. An intresting fact: Madison has just as much land area as Waukesha, Wisconsin. Waukesha has 50,000 residents, while Madison has 175,000 residents.