Editing Hixon, Wisconsin (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Hixon Wisconsin cows.jpg|thumb|left|Much of Hixon's terrain is fairly flat with heavy soil. Family dairy farms like this are becoming fewer.]]
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of 33.7&nbsp;square miles (87.4&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), of which, 33.3&nbsp;square miles (86.4&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) of it is land and 0.4&nbsp;square miles (1.0&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) of it (1.13%) is water. The Black river cuts across the west side of Hixon.

Except for stream cuts, Hixon's terrain is fairly flat. The soil is mostly Colby silt loam, weathered from the [[Drift (geology)|drift]] left by a glacier so long ago<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weidman |first1=Samuel |title=Soil Survey of South Part of North Western Wisconsin |date=1914 |publisher=Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey |location=Madison, Wis. |page=36 |url=https://wgnhs.wisc.edu/pubshare/B023-1914.pdf |access-date=December 31, 2023}}</ref> that erosion has mostly levelled it. Beneath the drift, the bedrock is volcanic [[schists]] and [[hornblende]] in the north of Hixon - [[Mount Simon Sandstone|Mount Simon sandstone]] in the south.<ref>{{cite book|last=Brown|first=B.A.|title=Bedrock Geology of Wisconsin - West-Central Sheet|date=1988|publisher=Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey|url=https://wgnhs.wisc.edu/catalog/dataset/000416/resource/m104/view/5ef8685f-f269-4dc0-9178-0138cfd5479f|access-date=December 31, 2023}}</ref>