Chapter VII: Chippewa, p. 188

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Chippewa County.

This large county is bounded on the north by Douglas & LaPointe, east by Marathon and Clark, south by Clark, Jackson, and Trempealeau, and on the west by Douglas and Polk. It embraces townships thirty two to forty-inclusive in ranges one east and from one to four and range eleven (inclusive) west; [in a] and townships twenty five to forty inclusive in ranges five to ten west. The form is irregular; length [ninety?] six miles; width seventy two; area five thousand four hundred, or equivalent to one hundred and fifty townships of land.

This county was established in 1845, from the western and northern parts of Crawford, and fully organized in 1853. Population in 1850 six hundred and fifteen and in 1835.

This large county lies mostly on the upper portion of the Chippewa river and its branches. But little is known of the general character of its surface; explorations having been generally confined to the vicinity of the larger streams.

There are several large tributaries of the Chippewa in this county, the largest of which is Yellow river; others are Flambeau, [Courte Oreilles?], Red-Cedar and L' Eau Clare.