Editing Dexter, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
The six mile square that would become the town of Dexter was first [[Surveying|surveyed]] in the summer of 1851 by a crew working for the U.S. government. In November and December another crew marked all the [[Section (United States land surveying)|section corners]] of the [[survey township|six mile square]], walking through the woods and wading the swamps, measuring with [[Gunter's chain|chain]] and [[Solar compass|compass]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Land Survey Information|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SurveyNotes/SurveyInfo.html|publisher=Board of Commissioners of Public Lands|accessdate=March 26, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Field Notes for T22N R3E|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/SurveyNotes/SurveyNotes-idx?type=PLSS&twp=T022NR003E|work=Original Field Notes and Plat Maps, 1833-1866|publisher=Board of Commissioners of Public Lands|accessdate=May 28, 2013}}</ref> When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description:
<blockquote>''Surface level, and principally swamp ([[Larix laricina|Tamarack]]) excepting a narrow strip about forty [[Chain (unit)|chains]] wide on either Bank of [[Yellow River (Wisconsin River)|Yellow River]] and Sections 4. 5. 8. 9. 16, 17, and North half of 20. soil 2 rate [[Hardpan|Hard Pan]]. Timber on Sections 8. 9. 16. 17 1st rate [[Eastern white pine|Pine]]. The balance of the Township is covered with thick small Pine and Tamarack. with a very thick crop of underbrush(?) - [[Alder]](?) Swamp [[Birch]] witch [[Corylus americana|Hazel]] and small Pine. Hiles and Seal's [[Sawmill|Saw Mill]] and dweling situated on the South-west quarter of Section 14. Williams saw mill and dweling House situated about the center of Section 10.''<ref>{{cite web|last=Sterling|first=Levi|title=Interior Field Notes (Nov. 1851 - Dec. 1851)|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/SurveyNotes/SurveyNotes-idx?type=article&byte=2078208&twp=T022NR003E|publisher=Board of Commissioners of Public Lands|accessdate=2013-05-28}}</ref></blockquote>

The town of Dexter takes its name from the community of [[Dexterville, Wisconsin|Dexterville]].<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.mcmillanlibrary.org/files/docs/placenames.pdf | title=Wood County Place Names | publisher=The University of Wisconsin Press | author=Rudolph, Robert S. | year=1970 | pages=21}}</ref>