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Racine County

[Racine county] Is the most southern of the Lake counties and occupies the south east corner of the Territory. It is bounded on the north by Milwaukee county, east by Lake Michigan, south by the state of Illinois, and west by Walworth county; or it includes townships one, two, three, and four in ranges nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two, and twenty three. The jurisdiction of this county, as well as all the others bordering on Lake Michigan extend, to the state line of Michigan in the middle of the Lake. Racine county is twenty four miles wide from north to south, and has an average length of twenty five and two thirds miles, and therefore an area of six hundred and sixteen square miles or sections, the length of coast in this county is 26 1/2 miles.

The country is generally even or slightly rolling, and is almost destitute of timber. Bur oaks, hickoery &c are found on occasional groves & the remainder is prairie. Beds of limestone are found along some of the streams.-

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