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Sauk County

Lies on the north side of the Wisconsin, between Richland and Portage Counties, being bounded as follows: beginning on the Wisconsin on the west line of range three east, and running three north to the north line of township twelve, thence west six miles; thence north six miles; thence east to the middle of the Wisconsin river; thence down the middle of said river until it intersects the range line between ranges seven and eight; thence south to the middle of the Wisconsin; thence down that stream to the beginning. It is thirty miles long from east to west, with an average breadth of about twenty eight miles, and an area of about eight hundred and seventy six square miles. Sauk county was set off from Crawford in 1839, and is to be organized as a separate county in 1844. Its population in 1840 was 102; in 1842 it was 303 and at this rate of increase the [pres] population may now be estimated at seven or eight hundred.

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