According to it the area was given to György Madaras, after whom the village was named, by the Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund, the king of Hungary.

[citation needed] In 1944 the German army had a military airfield built at the edge of the village.

In 1946 there was a violent attack on Jewish Holocaust survivors (the Kunmadaras pogrom) inspired by a rumour that they were murdering and consuming ("making sausages out of") children.

According to a book by Károly Vándor, this airfield was one of the military facilities in which nuclear weapons were held during the Cold War.

The Soviet 328th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment, Southern Group of Forces, was stationed at Kunmadaras until 1990–91, whereupon it was withdrawn back to the Odessa region and disbanded.