BlockOakland Town
The complete chapter on this town from The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879. 51 words, covering 4 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
4 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this town: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breezy Knoll | 110 | - | 7 | - |
| Lake Ripley | 112 | - | 6 | - |
| Oakland | 107 | - | 8 | - |
| Sylvan Mounds | 112 | - | 8 | - |
Settlements in this township
4 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 4 is named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
51 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Oakland Town
The early settlers in this region were E. G. Snell, James Crane, Gerard Crane and Gideon nd Holmes Ives. Mrs. Snell made the trip from Milwaukee on foot. Oakland Post Office was stablished about 1847, with E, G. Snell as Postmaster. Moses Powers is at present in .possesion of that olfice.
Provenance
Text from The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.