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SOIL SURVEY OF OUTAGAMIE COUNTY . 
In the townships of Liberty and Hortonia, and between Hor- 
tonville and Stephensville, numerous hills and ridges of fine 
sand occur. Similar hills are also found in the northern part 
of the town of Maine. 
South and east of the low fiat plains mentioned above is the 
most important farming section of the county. It consists of 
the rolling, fertile Superior soils. The highly improved condi¬ 
tion of the farms, the excellent farm buildings and the modern 
school houses and churches all point to these soils as being 
among the most productive of the region. The remainder of 
the county to the southeast is principally occupied by the level, 
heavy, Superior soils. In fertility and productiveness, they 
rank close to the rolling Superior, but on account of their low 
flat character they are usually deficient in drainage. 
The northern and western portions of Outagamie County are 
drained through the Wolf River and its tributaries into Lake 
Michigan. 
The Wolf, the Embarrass and the Sliioc Rivers draining the 
north-western part of the area are all slow, meandering, slug¬ 
gish streams within this area, and a great deal of the low, flat 
surrounding territory is subject to overflow in the spring of 
the year. The streams in the eastern and southern parts of the 
county have a larger amount of fall. The Fox River in a dis¬ 
tance of thirty-five miles, has a difference in elevation of 170 
feet. The excellent water power facilities offered by this stream 
have been highly developed and have made this region famous 
as a paper and pulp producing center. 
The first white man to settle in the county was probably Dom¬ 
inique Ducharme, who established himself in 1790 near the 
present site of Kaukauna. In 1851, Outagamie County was 
formed from Brown County. 
Over Outagamie County the population is quite evenly dis¬ 
tributed. The township of Maine is most thinly settled, and 
the region directly bordering the Fox River is the most thickly 
settled. The census of 1920 reports the population of the county 
as 55,113. This gives an average of 85.3 persons per square 
mile. 
Outagamie County is well supplied with railroad facilities. 
The wagon roads through the county are generally in fair con¬ 
dition. A system of concrete roads is now under construction, 
which when completed will connect all of the principal towns 
in the county. 
