Editing Estella, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
The general area that would become Estella was first [[Surveying|surveyed]] in 1847 by a crew working for the U.S. government. In 1852 a different crew marked all the [[Section (United States land surveying)|section corners]] of the [[survey township|township]], walking through the woods and wading the rivers, 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|access-date=March 26, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Field Notes for T31N R6W|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/SurveyNotes/SurveyNotes-idx?type=PLSS&town=T031N&range=R006W|work=Original Field Notes and Plat Maps, 1833-1866|publisher=Board of Commissioners of Public Lands|access-date=March 13, 2013}}</ref> When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description of the six by six mile square which overlays most of the modern township:
<blockquote>''This Township contains a number of [[Thuja occidentalis|Cedar]] & [[Larix laricina|Tamarac]] swamp, all unfit for cultivation. The Surface generally level(?) and heavily(?) timbered with [[Eastern White Pine|Pine]], [[Tsuga canadensis|Hemlock]], Tamarac [[Sugar maple|Sugar Maple]] & [[Betula alleghaniensis|Birch]]. Soil second to third rate and a part fit for cultivation. Chippewa and [[Fisher River (Wisconsin)|Fisher]] Rivers runs through the NorthWest corner of this Township. The banks of this River are high and generally covered with pine and Hemlock timber.''<ref>{{cite web|last=Harrison|first=J. M.|title=Interior Field Notes (1852)|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/SurveyNotes/SurveyNotes-idx?type=article&byte=3208953&twp=T031NR006W|publisher=Board of Commissioners of Public Lands|access-date=2013-03-13}}</ref></blockquote>
The town was named for Laura Estella Flint, the wife of Warren S. Flint, a local business owner who became the first postmaster in 1886.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Callary|first1=Edward|title=Place Names of Wisconsin|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|location=Madison, WI|isbn=978-0-299-30964-0 |pages=90–91}}</ref>