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In the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the Central Plain is a geographical region consisting of about 13,000 square miles (34,000 km 2) of land in a v-shaped belt across the center of the state. Beginning in the west, the Central Plain originates in Burnett and Polk Counties and runs southeast to Columbia County , where it turns northeast and reaches ...
Professor Lawrence Martin created a schema for dividing Wisconsin into geographical regions in his work "The Physical Geography of Wisconsin". [1] [2] Western Upland; Eastern Ridges and Lowlands; Central Plain; Northern Highland; Lake Superior Lowland; Three of these geographical provinces are uplands and two are lowlands.
It flows south along the glacial plain of central Wisconsin, before turning westward in Portage and joining the Mississippi River 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Prairie du Chien. The Baraboo River is a tributary, and one of the longest free flowing waterways in the United States. [34]
The village of Plain [8] is located on Wisconsin Highway 23 and County Road B in the Township of Franklin. The area of Plain was originally known as Cramer's Corners [ 9 ] after four Cramer brothers (John, Jeremiah, Adam and Solomon, Sr.) moved to the Plain area in the early 1850s.
Zhongyuan, a plain in Northern China in the lower reaches of the Yellow River which was the cradle of Chinese civilisation Central Plains Economic Zone; Central Plain (Wisconsin), one of the geographical regions of Wisconsin; Central Plains Region, an informal geographic region of the Canadian province of Manitoba
Around 85% of the Driftless Area lies within Wisconsin, comprising much of the southwestern quarter of the state. The border is defined by the catchment of the Chippewa River on the north, and somewhat west (or east, depending on if the southwestern portion of Wisconsin's Central Plain is included) of the north-south line of the Wisconsin River.
The geographical regions of Wisconsin [1]. The Western Upland is a geographical region covering much of the western half of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It stretches from southern Polk County, Wisconsin in the north to the state border with Illinois in the south, and from Rock County in the east to the Mississippi River in the west.
West Central Wisconsin geography stubs (2 C, 234 P) Pages in category "Regions of Wisconsin" ... Central Plain (Wisconsin) Chicago metropolitan area; Chippewa Valley; D.