Township of Deer Creek

The town has a total area of 34.2 square miles, of which, 34.2 square miles is land and 0.03% is water.

The six by six mile square that would become Deer Creek was first surveyed in 1851 by crews working for the U.S. government. In the fall of 1854 a different crew of surveyors marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and swamps, measuring with chain and compass. When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description:

This Township contains a large number of Swamps, all of which are unfit for cultivation. The lands is nearly all unfit for farming purposes, the soil being very poor and in most places the stone and gravel comes to the surface. The Timber is of poor quality, being mostlyHemlock & Birch. Where the land is rolling, the timber is Sugar Lindon and Elm.

There is no Pine worth any thing in the Township. It is well watered by small streams, but none of them are of sufficient size for milling purposes