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TOWNSHIPS
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Bergen
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Chaseburg
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Christiana
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Clinton
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Coon
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Coon Valley
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De Soto
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Forest
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Franklin
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Genoa
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Greenwood
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Hamburg
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Harmony
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Hillsboro
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Jefferson
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Kickapoo
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La Farge
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Liberty
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Ontario
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Readstown
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Stark
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Sterling
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Stoddard
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Union
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Viola
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Viroqua
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Webster
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Westby
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Wheatland
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Whitestown
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Cities
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Genoa
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Hillsboro
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Viroqua
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Vernon County, previously known as Bad Axe County
Description
from John W. Hunt's "1853 Wisconsin Gazetteer":
"BAD AX, County, is bounded on the north by LaCrosse, on the east by
Sauk and Richland , on the south by Richland and Crawford, and on the west by the Mississippi river , and was set
off from Crawford and organized March 1, 1851. The county seat was established by a vote of the electors of the
county on the 29th day of Jane, 1852, at Viroqua, near the centre of the county. The streams are the Bad Ax, Kickapoo
and Racoon rivers, with their tributaries, and small streams emptying into the Mississippi . A large quantity (41,807
acres,) of that portion of school lands known as the 500,000 acre grant, is situated in Bad Ax county, the soil
of which is good, and produces good crops of wheat, oats, corn, &c. This county is comparatively new, and contained
in 1850 less than 700 inhabitants. During the last two years the population has increased very fast."
Vernon County's county seat is Viroqua.
Surrounding Counties
* La Crosse County * Monroe
County * Juneau County *
Sauk County * Richland County * Crawford
County *
Allamakee County, Iowa * Houston
County, Minnesota *
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