Summary Information
Wisconsin. Board of Commissioners of Public Lands: Federal Survey Plat Books
1834-1858
- Wisconsin. Board of Commissioners of Public Lands
Series 698
4.0 c.f. (21 volumes, 14 packages) and 3 reels of microfilm (35mm)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Certified copies of the original federal survey plat books prepared at the Dubuque Land Office between 1851 and 1858, containing plat maps prepared from the field notes of land surveyors. Shown is total acreage, section lines and numbers, acreages, watercourses, rapids, meanders of rivers and lakes, swamp, mineral diggings, houses, roads, paths, fields, forest cover, prairie, windfalls, meridian variation, type of survey, surveyor’s name, date of contract, amount of land surveyed, date of survey, date cost was charged to Surveyor General's account, and certificate of conformity to the field notes dated and signed by a Surveyor General.
English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser00698 ↑ Bookmark this ↑
Note
This series is available in both paper form and on microfilm. Reel 1 of the microfilm was produced by the Archives and contains Towns 1-30; reels 2 and 3 were apparently produced by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources when the Commission was attached to it and contain Towns 25-34 and 35-53 respectively.
The records on Townships 31-53 are negative photostats.
A partial list of surveyors and dates is available in the Archives' Maps reference file.
Related Material
Wisconsin. Board of Commissioners of Public Lands: Surveyor's Field Notes (Series 701); and “Public Land Survey Plat Maps” and “Public Land Re-Survey Plat Maps,” both in Board of Commissioners of Public Lands' custody.
Contents List
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Reel
1
Volume
1
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Towns #1-2
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Reel
1
Volume
2
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Towns #3-4
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1
Volume
3
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Towns #5-6
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Reel
1
Volume
4
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Towns #7-8
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1
Volume
5
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Towns #9-10
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1
Volume
6
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Towns #11-12
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1
Volume
7
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Towns #13-14
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1
Volume
8
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Towns #15-16
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1
Volume
9
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Towns #17-18
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1
Volume
10
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Town #19
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Volume
11
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Town #20
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Volume
12
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Town #21
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1
Volume
13
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Town #22
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Volume
14
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Town #23
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Volume
15
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Town #24
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Volume
16
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Town #25
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Volume
17
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Town #26
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1
Volume
18
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Town #27
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1
Volume
19
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Town #28
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1
Volume
20
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Town #29
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1
Volume
21
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Town #30
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2
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1
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Town #31
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2
Package
2
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Town #32
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2
Package
3
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Town #33
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2
Package
4
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Town #34
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3
Package
5
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Town #35
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3
Package
6
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Town #36
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3
Package
7
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Town #37
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3
Package
8
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Town #38
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3
Package
9
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Town #39
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3
Package
10
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Town #40
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3
Package
11
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Towns #41-42
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3
Package
12
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Towns #43-44
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3
Package
13
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Towns #45-47
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Reel
3
Package
14
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Towns #48-53
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