Portage of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. It was set off from Portage and organized February 3, 1846. The boundaries were somewhat changed March 6, 1849. The streams of this county are the Fox, (Neenah), Wisconsin, and Crawfish rivers, and Rocky Run, Ockie, Spring, and Duck creeks. For fertility of soil and feasibility of lands, the most of which are openings and prairie, this county is unsurpassed by any other in the State. It is connected with the third judicial circuit, and with the third congressional district, and constitutes the twenty-fifth senate district; sends two members to the assembly, being divided into the north and south assembly districts, nearly of the same size. The towns of Winnebago, Port Hope, Marcellon, Scott, Randolph, Portage, Prairie, Spring Vale, and Wyocena, forming the first; and the towns of Columbus, Fountain Prairie, Hampden, Otsego, Leeds, Lowville, Lodi, Dekorra, Westpoint, and Caledonia, the second district. The vote of the electors at the annual town meeting in April, 1851, permanently located the seat of justice at Fort Winnebago, in accordance with an act approved March 15, 1851. The population in 1846 was 1,969; 1847, 3,791; 1850, 9,565. Farms, 998; manufactories, 25; dwellings, 1,855. County officers for 1853 and 1854: County Judge, Joshua J. Guppy; Sheriff, Perry Lee; Clerk of Court, James Delany, Register of Deeds, William Owen; Clerk of Board of Supervisors, Alvin Alden; County Treasurer, H. Hascall; County Surveyor, John Thomas; Coroner, Isaac Smith.

Coмo, Lake, in the south part of the town of Geneva, in Walworth county. It is about three miles long, and half a mile broad.

CONCORD, P. O., in town of same name, Jefferson county, on section 15, known as "Kelloggs," formerly Union Centre. CONCORD, Town, in county of Jefferson, being town 7 N., of range 16 E.; centrally located, 10 miles northeast from Jefferson. The population in 1850 was 725. It has 9 school districts.

COOKSVILLE, P. V., (Waucoma village), in Rock county, being on section 6, town 4 N., of range 11 E. It is 16 miles northwest from Janesville, and 18 miles southeast from Madison, on the edge of a broad and gently sloping prairie of two miles in width. It is on the Badfish, with three good millsites within one and a half miles. Population, 250; dwellings, 35; stores, 3; hotels, 1; mills, 3. 1 Presbyterian church, 1 sash and door, 1 waggon, 1 harness, 1 shoe, 1 blacksmith, 1 cabinet, and 1 tailor shop.

COON, Prairie, in Bad Ax county, on section 5, town 13 N., range 4 W.

of

COOPERSTOWN, P. V., in Brown county, on section 1, town 21 N., of range 22 E.

COPPER, Creek, empties into the Mississippi, in town 6, Crawford

county.

COPPER, Creek, is a small stream entering Baraboo river from the N., about 5 miles below Reedsburg.

COTTAGE GROVE, P. O., in town of same name, Dane county, on section 23.

COTTAGE GROVE, Town, in county of Dane, being town 7, range 11 E.; centrally located, 10 miles east from Madison. The population in 1850 was 1,022. It has 12 school districts, and 3 hotels; the settlers are principally Irish and German. COURT-EOREILLE, Lake, (Lac Court-eoreille, Agasowi Lake), a considerable lake in the southern part of La Pointe county, discharging its waters through a river of the same name, into the Chippewa river.

COURT-EOREILLE, River, rises in lake of same name, runs southeast into the Chippewa.

COURTLAND, Town, in county of Columbia.

CRANBERRY, Creek, in Adams county, is a northern branch of the Yellow river.

CRANBERRY, Lakes, several small lakes in the town of Concord, Jefferson county; have been so named on account of the great quantities of that fruit formerly found in their vicinity. CRAWFISH, River, rises in the town of Hampden, Columbia county, and running southeasterly, uniting with Beaver Dam creek, in Dodge county, enters Rock river, at Jefferson. It is about the same size as Rock river.

CRAWFORD, County, is located at the junction between the Wis

consin and Mississippi rivers, and is bounded on the north by Bad Ax, on the east by Richland, on the southeast by Grant, and on the west by the Mississippi, which separates it from the State of Iowa. It was established October 16, 1818, when it embraced all of the territory between the Mississippi and "a line drawn due north from the northern line of the State of Illinois, through the centre of the Portage between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers to the Michilimacinac," and derived its name from Hon. Wm. H. Crawford, formerly Secretary of War, and afterwards Secretary of the Treasury. Its limits have now been so far reduced that it is one of the smallest counties in the State. The seat of justice is at Prairie du Chien, one of the oldest settlements in the State, on the Mississippi river, about three miles above the mouth of the Wisconsin, and is one of the most beautiful locations in the west. The surface of the country is broken by a ridge running between the two great rivers. The soil, for the most part, is good, producing wheat, oats, and most other grains, which find a ready home market, in supplying the lumber traders, military posts, and the great tide of emigration which is now turned to this and the neighboring counties of La Crosse and Bad Ax. It is watered by the Kickapoo river and its branches, and small streams emptying into the Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers. Between the Kickapoo river and Richland county, is one of the finest tracts of country in the State. It is well supplied with pure water; and good

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