timber is found along the banks of the small streams, and in groves, scattered at convenient distances, to be useful for the rapidly increasing population. A fine village has been regularly laid out midway between the mouth of the Kickapoo and the Richland county line, on the Wisconsin river, called Boyd's town. It has a good landing. There is much pine timber in this county, on and near the banks of the Kickapoo, from which large quantities of lumber are manufactured, finding an outlet to a market by said river, and the Wisconsin and Mississippi. Copper has been found in the northern part of the county, in such quantities and appearance as to indicate the near presence of a vast body of that mineral. Near the west bank of the Kickapoo, in town 8, has been found considerable quantities of lead, and there is no doubt that if a geological survey was made, that lead, rivalling in quantity and purity that raised in the counties of Iowa, Grant and Lafayette, would be discovered. It is connected with the sixth judicial circuit, and the nineteenth senate district, and with Bad Ax, is entitled to one member of the assembly. The estimated population of Crawford county in 1825, including most of the present State and a portion of Minnesota, was 492. The population in 1830 was 692; 1836, 854; 1838, 1,220; 1840, 1,502; 1842, 1,409; 1846, 1,444; 1847, 1,409; 1850, (including Bad Ax and La Crosse,) 2,399; 1850, within its present limits, 1,407. Farms, 81; manufactories, 14; dwellings, 665. The above will give but little information in regard to the increase of population, as new counties were set off between nearly every taking of the census. The present population of the county is upwards of 3,000. County Officers for 1853 and 1854: County Judge, Hiram A. Wright; Sheriff, Leander LeClerc; Clerk of Court, Ira B. Brunson; District Attorney, Samuel Cowden; Register of Deeds, Ira B. Brunson; Clerk of Board of Supervisors, Heman Baldwin; County Treasurer, I. P. Perrett Gentil; County Surveyor, Ira B. Brunson; Coroner, Henry H. Bailey.

CROCODILE, River, or Rice River, see Fond du Lac river.

CROOKED, Lake, a small body of water near the Wisconsin, in the town of Fennimore, Grant county.

CROOKED, Lake, an expansion of Bark river, in the south part of the town of Summit, Waukesha county, a short distance below the Nebahmin lakes.

CROOKED, Lake, near the centre of the town of Auburn, Fond du

Lac county.

CROSS PLAINS, P. O., in town of same name, Dane county.

CROSS PLAINS, Town, in the county of Dane, being town 7 N., of ranges 6 and 7 E.; centrally located, 17 miles W. from Madison. It has 7 school districts.

CRYSTAL, Lake, in Marquette county, in town 17 N., on a line between ranges 9 and 10 east, discharging its waters southeasterly, into the Neenah, near the line between towns 15 and 16 north.

CYAON, Creek, empties into the Kickapoo from the west, in town 9 north, in Crawford county.

DAKOTAH, Town, in county of Waushara, being town 18 N., of range 10; centrally located, 10 miles west from Sacramento. DANE, Town, in county of Dane, being town 9 N., of range 8 E.; centrally located, 15 miles northwest from Madison.

DANE, County, is bounded on the northwest by the Wisconsin river, by which it is separated from Sauk; on the north by Columbia, on the east by Dodge and Jefferson, south by Rock and Green, and west by Iowa. It was established from Milwaukee and Iowa, and attached to Iowa for judicial purposes. December 7, 1836, and fully organized March 11, 1839. The seat of justice is at Madison, near the geographical centre of the county, and the Court House is the best in the State. Dane county contains about 1,250 square miles, mostly of good tillable land, and a fertile soil, well apportioned between woodland, openings and prairie, and is well adapted

to grazing, and the raising of grain, roots and fruit. There is, in the county, considerable non-resident land which can be bought on reasonable terms. One of the most attractive features of the county is its beautiful lakes of clear, pure cold water, originating in deep springs. The Catfish river forms the outlet of these lakes, and passes from the northwest to the southeast completely through the chain known as the Four Lakes. The county is connected with the second judicial circuit, the second congressional district, and constitutes the eleventh senate district. It is divided into assembly districts as follows: 1st. The towns of Dunkirk, Christiana, Pleasant Springs and Albion. 2d. The towns of Cottage Grove, Deerfield, Sun Prairie, Medina, York and Bristol. 3d. The towns of Verona, Montrose, Oregon, Greenfield, Dunn and Rutland. 4th. The towns of Perry, Primrose, Blue Mounds, Springdale, Cross Plains, Middleton, Springfield, Berry, Black Earth, Roxbury and Dane. 5th. The village and town of Madison, and the towns of Burk, Blooming Grove, Westport, Vienna and Windsor. The county is watered by the Catfish and Sugar rivers, and Black Earth, Badfish, Token, Waterloo and Koskonong creeks. The population in 1836 was Ebenezer Brigham; 1838, 172; 1840, 314; 1842, 8,289; 1847, 10,935; 1850, 16,654. Farms, 1,511; manufactories, 87; dwellings, 3,510. County Officers: County Judge, N. Bishop Eddy; Clerk of the Court, Charles Lumm; Sheriff, Willet S. Main; Register, John B. Sweat; Clerk of Board Supervisors, Gabriel Bjornsen; District Attorney, Samuel H. Roys; Treasurer, Philo Dunning; Surveyor, Russel Babbitt; Coroner, Andrew Bishop.

DARIEN, P. V., in town of same name, Walworth county. DARIEN, Town, in county of Walworth, being town 2 N., of range 15 E.; centrally located, 10 miles southwest from Elkhorn, the county seat. The population in 1850 was 1,013. It has 8 school districts.

DARTFORD, P. V., in town of Brooklyn, the seat of justice of Marquette county, is located on the outlet of Green Lake, in the openings on section 21, town 16 N., of range 13 E.; 65 miles northeast from Madison. It contains about 400 temperate and industrious inhabitants. It is on the stage route from Milwaukee to Berlin and Plover, as also on the great western thoroughfare from Sheboygan and Fond du Lac. The climate of this vicinity is very healthy. It has 58 dwellings, 5 stores, 1 hotel, 4 mills, 5 mechanical shops, 1 church, and 3 organized religious denominations.

DAYTON, Town, (formerly Middletown), in county of Marquette. DAYTON, Town, (formerly Embarrass), in northeast corner of the county of Waupacca. It was organized in the fall of 1852. DAYTON, Town, in county of Waushara, being town 21, of range

11.

DEAD, Lake, in town 24 N., of range 14 W., in Chippewa county. DEAD, Lake, near Madison, in Dane county.

DEATH'S, Door, the entrance from Lake Michigan to Green Bay, between Plum Island and the main land of Door county. DECATUR, P. V., in town of same name, in Green county. DECATUR, Town, in the county of Green, being town 2 N., of range 9; centrally located, southeast from Monroe. The population in 1850 was 558. It has 7 school districts.

DEER, Creek, a tributary from the northwest, rises in Waushara county, entering Mechan river in town 17 N., of range 9. DEER, Creek, a small stream, entering Rock river about 2 miles above Fort Atkinson.

DEERFIELD, Town, in conuty of Dane, being town 7 N., of range 12 E.; centrally located, 16 miles east from Madison. DEERFIELD, P. O., in Dane county, on section 9, town 7 N., of

range 12 E.; 16 miles east from Madison, at Junction of Columbus and Janesville stage road with the great eastern

mail route and thoroughfare from Galena to Milwaukee. It has 75 inhabitants, 13 dwellings, 2 stores, and 1 hotel; and is located in the vicinity of good timber, prairie and openings, and has excellent water. This place is well known as Hyer's," in honor of D. R. Hyer, by whom it was settled in 1843, at which time he was the only settler within 6 miles. DEER, Lake, is a small lake in the town of Harmony, Rock county. DEKORRA, Town, in county of Columbia, being town 11 N., of

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ranges 9 and 10 E.; centrally located, 10 miles from Portage city. The population in 1850 was 661. It has 8 school districts. DEKORRA, P. V., in Columbia county, on section 6, town 11 N., of range 9 E.; 6 miles south from Portage city, and 30 miles northwest from Madison. Its location is on the east side of the Wisconsin river, at the mouth of Rocky Run creek, and has 150 inhabitants, 45 dwellings, 2 stores, 2 hotels, 1 mill, and 1 methodist church.

DEKORRA, Mounds, in La Crosse county, on sections 3 and 4, town 18 N., of range 7 W., near Black river.

DELAFIELD, Town, in county of Waukesha, being town 7 N., of range 18 E.; centrally located, 9 miles northwest from Waukesha. The population in 1850 was 1,134. It has 5 school districts. DELAFIELD, P. V., on Bark river, in town of same name in Waukesha county, on section 20. The former great western thoroughfare, from Milwaukee to Madison, passed through this place, but since the completion of the Watertown and Milwaukee plank road, which passes 23 miles north, the village has lost, in a great degree, the activity and bustle that once characterized it. It has 2 good flouring mills, 1 machine shop, 4 stores, 3 hotels, 3 shoe shops, 3 blacksmiths, 2 cabinet and 2 waggon maker's shops.

DELAVAN, P. V., in town of same name, Walworth county, being on section 18. It is the seat of the Wisconsin Deaf and Dumb Institution; has an excellent flour mill with good hydraulic power, and one of the best nurseries in the State. It is 60 miles southeast from Madison.