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This first Wisconsin period erased all the Illinoian glacial topography that its glaciers extended over. [3] The Late Wisconsin ice sheet extended more towards the west than the earlier movements. This may have been due to changes in the accumulation center of the ice sheet, topographic changes introduced by the Early phase or by pressure ...
List of Wisconsin Municipalities in Alphabetical Order; Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Wisconsin Cities, Villages, Townships and Unincorporated Places Listing; Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. State and local government statistics from the State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2015-2016; League of Wisconsin Municipalities.
Wisconsin Department of Administration. List of Wisconsin municipalities in alphabetical order; Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Wisconsin Cities, Villages, Townships and Unincorporated Places Listing; Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2013-2014 - state and local government statistics
A general map of Wisconsin. Wisconsin, a state in the Midwestern United States, has a vast and diverse geography famous for its landforms created by glaciers during the Wisconsin glaciation 17,000 years ago. The state can be generally divided into five geographic regions—Lake Superior Lowland, Northern Highland, Central Plain, Eastern Ridges ...
Wisconsin counties (clickable map) The county is the primary political subdivision of Wisconsin. Every county has a county seat, often a populous or centrally located city or village, where the government offices for the county are located. Within each county are cities, villages and towns. As of 2016, Wisconsin had 72 counties. [1]
Iowa County was formed in 1829 from the Crawford County land south of the Wisconsin River. [1] Brown County's southern portion was used to form Milwaukee County in 1834. [1] The state of Wisconsin was created from Wisconsin Territory on May 29, 1848, with 28 counties.
Glacial Lake Wisconsin 20,000 years ago with modern counties for geographical context. Glacial Lake Wisconsin was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed from approximately 18,000 to 14,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age , in the central part of present-day Wisconsin in the United States .
Autumn in the Driftless Area of Cross Plains, Wisconsin. The Driftless Area, also known as Bluff Country and the Paleozoic Plateau, is a topographical and cultural region in the Midwestern United States [1] that comprises southwestern Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa, and the extreme northwestern corner of Illinois.