Chapter VII: Bad Ax, p. 180

164.

Bad-Ax County.

This county has on the Mississippi river between Crawford and LaCrosse. On the east it borders on Adams, Sauk, and Richland counties. It includes townships twelve, thirteen, and fourteen and the north half of eleven in ranges three to seven inclusive, and townships thirteen and fourteen in ranges one east & one and two west of the meridian being forty eight miles long and twenty one wide, with an area of eight hundred and twenty six square miles. Established and fully organized in 1837. Population in 1855.

This county lies mostly on an elevated plateau into which the valleys of the streams are cut to a great depth, rendering the surface in their vicinity very much broken and uneven. The highest grounds are about the sources of the Bad Ax river, where there are some very remarkable, isolated blocks or pillars of sandstone, which have withstood the wearing effects of time while the surrounding rock has been swept away.

164.

Bad-Ax County.

This county has on the Mississippi river between Crawford and LaCrosse. On the east it borders on Adams, Sauk, and Richland counties. It includes townships twelve, thirteen, and fourteen and the north half of eleven in ranges three to seven inclusive, and townships thirteen and fourteen in ranges one east & one and two west of the meridian being forty eight miles long and twenty one wide, with an area of eight hundred and twenty six square miles. Established and fully organized in 1837. Population in 1855.

This county lies mostly on an elevated plateau into which the valleys of the streams are cut to a great depth, rendering the surface in their vicinity very much broken and uneven. The highest grounds are about the sources of the Bad Ax river, where there are some very remarkable, isolated blocks or pillars of sandstone, which have withstoof the wearing effects of time while the surrounding rock has been swept away.