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Who Settled Dodge County? Where the people of each town were born, from the 1850, 1870 and 1880 censuses: Yankees from New York and New England, Germans by state of origin, Irish, Welsh, Norwegians and more, plus population change from 1890 to 1910, the original land patents, and the treaty lands taken from the Ho-Chunk, Potawatomi, Odawa and Ojibwe in 1832 and 1833. Lay any theme over the original land surveys and plat atlases, fade it, or compare two side by side.
Map by Carl Reinemann, One Shot at History
Data: IPUMS USA full-count census data and the Census Place Project (town totals only); U.S. Census 1910; U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line; BLM General Land Office Records; treaty lands after C. C. Royce (1899) via USDA Forest Service, Rock River from OpenStreetMap. Historic maps via One Shot at History and Allmaps. Basemaps: Esri, USGS The National Map.