Bounded on the North by the town of Dayton; on the East by the town of Macford; on the South by Columbia county; on the West by the town of Kingston. The Grand River…is perhaps half a mile wide, passing nearly or quite through the center of the town, running somewhat east by north into the town of Mackford; some parts of it are rather broken, but its most general appearance is that of a handsome valley of openings and oak timber land…. This town is quite equally divided into openings, timber openings, prairie and marsh, quite equally scattered through the town.

The east branch of the Fox River heads in a south-west corner of this town at the foot of the prairie; a marsh on this stream half a mile wide and one and a half miles in length; openings on the high lands; soil sand loam. A German settlement of about twenty-five families in this quarter of the town. A Welsh settlement west of south side, of fifteen or twenty families, who have an organized society and house of worship; pastor Rev. T. Roberson. Lands on north-west half of the town north of Manchester, rather high rolling land.