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[220] 403 Grant County

Occupies the south west corner of Wisconsin, being bounded on the north by the Wisconsin river (or Crawford and Richland counties;) on the east by Iowa county; on the south by the state of Illinois, and on the west by the Mississippi which separates it from the Territory of Iowa. Its extreme length from north to south is forty eight miles, and from east to west thirty seven miles; its mean breadth, [is] however, is only twenty four miles, showing an area of eleven hundred and fifty two square miles. It has a river coast along the Wisconsin and Mississippi of nearly one hundred miles.

Grant county was set off from Iowa and organized as a separate county in 1836. In 1838 it had a population of 2,763; in 1840 of 3,926 & in 1842 of 5,937. The county seat is at Lancaster.

The topography of this county is quite simple; it ma be described as a series of ridges with intervening valleys. The main ridge runs east and west commencing at the