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          WISCONSIN CIVIL TOWNSHIP LAND AREAS
      SURVEY OF THE ACREAGES IN CIVIL TOWNS, 1935

   There has long been a need for an accurate and up-to-date tabula-
tion showing the actual areas of each town and county in Wisconsin.
Because of special needs for these data arising out of the agricultural
planning undertaken by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration,
a project was undertaken to survey the areas of all civil towns in the
state. The work was conducted jointly by the Federal-State Crop
Reporting Service and the College of Agriculture.'
   The acreages of the civil towns in Wisconsin were computed from
 the plats of the original surveys, the resurvey plats, and the field
 notes in the General Land Office in charge of Mr. A. D. Campbell.
 Special information as to private claims in Brown, Crawford, and
 Outagamie Counties was gathered from both the Land Office and other
 sources.'
 The acreages of the civil towns were ascertained by a county by
 county check of the government townships in the state. Before going
 to the General Land Office plats, the exact boundary of each civil town
 was determined, and where a government township was divided be-
 tween two counties, or two or more civil towns within a county, the
 section numbers in each were predetermined so far as possible from
 the small plat books. Where a total government township was in-
 cluded within a county, it was listed as such. After going to the orig-
 inal survey plat the sections were again checked, for in many instances
 almost infinitesimal sections appeared along the river which were im-
 possible to determine on the small plat book.
 A listing sheet was then set up for each township and range in each
 county. In the upper left hand corner was the name of the county,
 across the top were the names of all the towns which included sections
 of that township, and the section numbers from one to thirty-six were
 listed below.
 From the original survey plat the acreage of the sections were then
 placed under their respective towns. When it happened that a section
 was divided, the acreages were computed for each division and added
 to see if they equaled the section total. Along meandered streams
 and lakes the government lots were always added. In three cases
 divisions of sections occurred on unmeandered streams or lakes, mak-
 ing it necessary to use a templet', a celluloid section drawn to scale
 'Compilation by Emery C. Wilcox and Bernerd H. Milkes for the Fed-
 eral State Crop Reporting Service and the Wisconsin College of Agricul-
 ture. The methods of compilation and listing were furnished by
 Dr. Walter H. Ebling of the Federal-State Crop Reporting Service, and
 Professor Don Anderson of the College of Agriculture. Advice as to
 procedure was also furnished by Mr. T. H. Bakken of the Land Office,
 and Mr. John Bordner of the Land Economic Invent'ory.
 2 a. Offices of the Registers of Deeds in Brown, Outagamie, and Craw-
 ford Counties.
 b. Mr. George Richards, former Outagamie County Register of Deeds,
 Appleton, Wisconsin.
 c. Mr. A. Martin, former Crawford County Surveyor, Prairie du Chien,
Wisconsin.
  sFurnished by Mr. Earl HTilburn, Land Economic Inventory.