Editing Fountain City, Wisconsin (section)

==Geography==
Fountain City is located at {{coord|44|7|28|N|91|42|34|W|type:city}} (44.124506, -91.709470),<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> at the intersection of highways 35 and 95.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|5.57|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, of which, {{convert|4.29|sqmi|sqkm|2}} are land and {{convert|1.28|sqmi|sqkm|2}} are covered by water.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web |title=US Gazetteer files 2010 |url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=2012-11-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702145235/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt |archive-date=2012-07-02 }}</ref>

The city is located on a bend in the Mississippi River, where the river flows right at the base of the bluffs on the east side of the valley. Because of this, at some points, the city is only two houses wide; one on each side of [[Wisconsin Highway 35]]. Eagle Creek and Waumandee Creek flow into Fountain City Bay northwest of the city limits. Eagle Creek flows around the base of Eagle Bluff, one of the tallest bluffs along the Mississippi.

The steep bluffs are characteristic of the [[Driftless Area]] of [[Wisconsin]], [[Minnesota]], and [[Iowa]], a region that was not smoothed over by glacier like much of the rest of the Midwest, but rather deeply cut by runoff from the rapidly melting glaciers.
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