KEYES' Creek, is the outlet of Rock lake, in the towns of Lake Mills, Aztalan and Milford, in Jefferson county.

KICKAPOO, River, rises in Bad Ax county, and runs south, nearly parallel with the Mississippi, in town 7 N., of range 4 E., in Crawford county.

KILBER, River, a small stream entering the Mississippi, in the western part of Cassville, Grant county.

KILBOURN, Diggings, mining point in town 1, range 1 W.

KILBOURNTOWN, see Milwaukee city.

KILLDARE, Town, in county of Sauk.

KILLMAKE, Creek, a small tributary of the north branch of Manitowoc river, in town 19 N., of range 20, Calumet county. KINEDO, Lake, see Tomahawk lake.

KINGSTON, P. V., in town of Kingston, Marquette county, being on section 13, in town 14 N., of range 11, 14 miles from Montello.

KINGSTON, Town, in county of Marquette. It has 5 school districts.

KINNIKINNICK, Town, in county of St. Croix, being towns 27 and 28 N., of south half of town 17; southeast from Willow river. It has 1 school district.

KINNIKINNICK, River, rises in the centre of St. Croix county, and runs southwest, entering St. Croix river about six miles from its mouth.

KINO, Lake, a crescent shaped lake, in Red Cedar river, below Lake Mukwa.

KINONJE, Lake, on outlet of Lake Meminis, on the head waters of St. Croix.

KNAPP'S, Creek, rises in town 11, meridian, and running south, near the line between Richland and Crawford counties, falls into the Wisconsin river.

KNAPP & BLACK'S Mills, on Red Cedar river, in Chippewa

county. KOSHKONONG, Town, in county of Jefferson, being town 5 N., of range 13 and 14 E.; centrally located, 10 miles southwest from Jefferson. The population in 1850 was 1,512. It has 9 school districts.

KOSHKONONG, Lake, is an enlargement of Rock river, in southwest corner of Jefferson county. It is about 8 miles long, and nearly three miles wide.

KOSHKONONG, Prairie, is in south part of Deerfield, Dane county. KOSSUTH, Town, in county of Fond du Lac, being town 16 N., of range 19 E.; centrally located, 10 miles northeast from Fond du Lac city. It forms a part of the old town of Calumet. KOSSUTH, P. O., in the county of Racine.

KOSSUTH, Town, in county of Winnebago.

LA BELLE, Lake, is the largest and lowermost lake of the Oconomowoc creek, on the east bank of which, is the village of Oconomowoc. It is nearly 3 miles long, and a mile and a half wide. It has a beautiful island near its centre.

LABICHE, Lake, in the eastern part of Chippewa county, discharges its waters through a river of the same name into the Manidowish.

LABICHE, River, rises in Flambeau-dore lake and Labiche lake, and

running southwest discharges its waters through Manidowish river, into the Chippewa.

LABRAUGH, Lake, (Oconomowoc Group), see Beaver lake.

LAC BRULE, is the source of the Wiscatota or Brule river of the Menominee.

LA CROSSE, County, is bounded on the north by Chippewa, on the east by Portage, Adams, and a portion of Sauk, and on the west by the Mississippi, by which it is separated from the territory of Minnesota. This county was set off from

Crawford, and organized March 1, 1851, the seat of justice being established at La Crosse, on a beautiful prairie of the same name, on the eastern bank of the Mississippi, 90 miles above the junction of the Wisconsin, and on the line between townships 15 and 16 north. It is watered by Black and La Crosse rivers, and Mormon, Eagle and Billings' creeks, and the headwaters of the Lemonwier. Many of the streams are of pure water, with abundance of hydraulic power, abounding with speckled trout. The soil may be considered as first rate, and is mostly of vegetable mould, mixed with a sufficient quantity of sand to give it warmth. In the northeastern portion of the county is a heavy growth of pine timber, which is manufactured into lumber and shingles, the export of which amounts to $175,000 per annum. Near the head of some of the large streams are cranberry marshes, yielding in good seasons several hundred bushels per acre. The population in 1850, all of which was confined to Black river, was 460. In 1851, about 46,000 acres of school lands, known as a part of the 500,000 acre grant, was brought into market upon very reasonable terms, and many of the enterprizing and industrious inhabitants of the older counties have changed their residence to one in this. The increase of population has probably been greater during the last two years than in any other locality in the State. This county is connected with the nineteenth senate district, and forms a portion of the sixth judicial circuit, and of the second congressional district, and, with Chippewa, sends one member to the assembly. County Officers for 1853: County Judge, George Gale; Sheriff, A. Eldred; Clerk of Court, Robert Looney; District Attorney, Edward Flint; Register, Chase A. Stevens; Treasurer, F. M. Rublee; Surveyor, William Hood.

LA CROSSE, P. V. and C. H., in town and county of same name,

on section 31, town 16 N., of range 7 W., 130 miles northwest from Madison. It is situated on a prairie 5 miles long and 3 wide, on the Mississippi river, immediately below the mouth

of the Black and La Crosse rivers, and about equidistant between Galena and St. Paul. The prairie is high enough from the river to be free from all danger of innundation, and as a site for a village or city, is unsurpassed by beauty and natural advantages by any spot on the river. The first claim was made by H. J. B. Miller and Nathan Myrick, who took up their residence in 1842. The Government survey was not made until 1847; John M. Levy opened a store in 1846, and the next year erected the first hotel. Nothing was done towards laying out the town until after the advent of Timothy Burns, now Lieutenant Governor of the State, to whom it is largely indebted for its present progress. A post office was established in 1844. The plat was surveyed in May 1851. In the second year of its organization, the town paid into the State treasury over $900. The population in March, 1853, in the village, was 543. It contains 4 stores of general assortment, 1 drug, 1 hardware, 1 furniture, 1 stove and tin, 3 groceries, 1 bakery, 1 livery stable, 1 harness, 4 tailor, 3 shoemaker shops, and mechanics of every description; 6 physicians, 6 lawyers, 4 clergymen, 3 religious societies, a division of the Sons of Temperance, a Free Masons' lodge, 1 church edifice, court house, steam saw mill and grist mill, and 5 hotels. La Crosse, from the advantages of its position, cannot fail to become one of the largest and most important places in the Northwest. The large extent of excellent farming land in the river vallies, and the extensive pine country bordering on the Black river, will always furnish a large amount of business which will concentrate at this point, in addition to which, it is the natural depot through which the immense business of the Upper Mississippi must naturally pass. It has been selected as the terminus of a rail road from Milwaukee, and the route selected is the most feasible one from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi, north of Dubuque. Minnesota already contains a population of many thousands, and is settling rapidly. The large tract of lands recently

acquired by treaty from the Sioux Indians, is situated directly opposite La Crosse, on the Minnesota side of the river, and possesses advantages for emigrants unsurpassed by any section of the country now open for settlement.

LA CROSSE, Town, in county of La Crosse, was, until recently, all of said county, south of town 17. It has 15 school districts. LA CROSSE, River, (Mazwini or Ball river,) rises in the eastern part of county of the same name, and running southwest, empties into the Mississippi at the village of La Crosse, on the beautiful prairie of the same name.

LAC VIEUX DESERT, (Kattakittekon), is the name of a lake, the middle of which is the boundary line between this State and Michigan, between the northern corner of Marathon and Oconto counties. It is the source of the Wisconsin, and occupies a high level above the lakes. Upon this elevation are the sources of several large streams, the Ontonagon and Montreal of Lake Superior, the Menominee of Lake Michigan, and the Wisconsin and Chippewa of the Mississippi. This lake is about 4 miles long from north to south, and of very irregular shape. In the middle of it is an island which is made a point in the boundary between Michigan and Wisconsin.

LAFAYETTE, County, is bounded on the north by Iowa, on the east

by Green, on the south by the State line, and west by Grant, and is 21 miles north and south, by 30 miles east and west. The country embracing the present county was set off by a division of Iowa county, and the formation of the counties of Lafayette and Montgomery, January 31, 1846, subject to the approval of the voters of said county, at the general election in September of the same year, at which election a majority voted against the "County Division Law." At the next session of the legislature, an act passed establishing the county of Lafayette, and it was organized February 4, 1847. The county seat has been a vexed question since the organization, but it has finally become established at the village of Shulls