A civil town in Taylor County, Wisconsin

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latitude 451014N and longitude 0902159W

created

Nov. 13, 1874, in Clark Co.

Set off to Taylor Co. Mar. 4, 1875
The City of Medford lies mostly within the town boundaries.

 

 The town has a total area of 37.8 square miles, of which, 37.7 square miles is land and 0.1 square miles is water.

The western edge of the six by seven mile rectangle that would become the town of Medford was first surveyed in 1847 by a crew working for the U.S. government. That west edge of the town is on the Fourth Principal Meridian, the first north-south line surveyed up through the forests of Wisconsin, from which all the towns, sections and forties are measured. In late 1861 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:

The Surface of this Township is rather gently rolling or level. Timber mostly Hemlock with Birch , Sugar, Fir,  Spruce and White Pine. Soil 1st & 2nd Rate and of good quality for agricultural purposes. The township is well watered by numerous small streams which flow in a Southerly direction.