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Dodge County is bounded on the north by [Marquette and] Fond du Lac county, on the east by Fond du Lac and Washington, on the south by Milwaukee and Jefferson, and on the west by Dane and Portage; or north by the north line of town thirteen, east by the east line of range seventeen, south by the south line of town nine, and west by the west line of range thirteen. It is [forty two miles long from east to west and thirty miles wide, and with] thirty miles square having an area of [twelve] nine hundred [and forty one] square miles, or sections. Dodge County was set off from Brown county in 1836 and was organized as a separate county in 1840. Its population in 1838 was 18 in 1840 it was 67 and in 1840 [obscured].

Statistics in 1840 agreeably to the U.S. Census

[Table of Statistics].

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