The area was occupied historically by the Koasati, a Muskogean-speaking people before they were thousands of years of indigenous cultures.
John Cartwright was the inaugural European-American settler of Madison, arriving in 1818.
Originally named “Madison Station,” the city burgeoned in the 1850s, evolving around a halt of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad.
The town of Madison was incorporated on the 2nd of December 1869.
Madison has a total area of 30.694 square miles, of which 30.563 square miles is land and 0.131 square miles is water.
In 1986, Madison voters overwhelmingly voted to remain independent by not merging with Huntsville.
Madison is the 9th largest city in Alabama and one of the fastest-growing cities in Alabama with an estimated population of 59,785, as of 2022.
Madison was the birthplace of Oscar Adams, the first African American Alabama Supreme Court Justice.
Madison is included in the Huntsville Metropolitan Area, the second-largest in the state, and included in the merged Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.
The renowned civil rights leader, Rosa Parks, visited Madison in 1990.